First Democratic Election In Russia

The 1991 russian presidential election was held in the russian sfsr on 12 june 1991.

First democratic election in russia. The first round included 77 candidates among whom were representatives of various left wing political parties and organizations including pavel grudinin yury boldyrev gennady zyuganov sergey mironov who later supported vladimir putin sergey glazyev zakhar prilepin viktor anpilov valery zorkin zhores alferov sergey baburin who later was nominated as a candidate from the party russian all people s union natalia lisitsyna who was later nominated as a candidate from the russian. Russia has not topped america s foreign policy priorities under president donald trump but that could all change if joe biden wins the 2020 election according to experts. These were first enacted in the 1946 legislative elections and continued through the next decades as the red army continued its presence in the eastern bloc.

The election was held roughly three months after russians voted in favor of establishing a presidency and holding direct elections in a referendum held in march that year. Van hollen said russia is trying to interfere by using many of the same tactics employed during the 2016 election such as hacking into democratic computers in order to leak sensitive information. Elections to the russian constituent assembly were held on 25 november 1917 although some districts had polling on alternate days around 2 months after they were originally meant to occur having been organized as a result of events in the russian revolution of 1917.

The only other parties that have achieved more than 10 of the votes have been democratic choice of russia with 16 in 1993 our home russia with 12 in 1995 and in 1999 unity with 23 fatherland all russia with 13 and people s deputies faction with 15. The 60 year old reformer and leader of the group democratic russia has. Director of national intelligence john ratcliffe said wednesday both iran and russia have obtained us voter registration information in an effort to interfere in the election including iran.

This was the first presidential election in the country s history.