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OFFICIALS in Russia’s far east have overturned the result of an election the opposition Communist Party (KPRF) says was stolen, but communists poured scorn on their decision to rerun the vote.
With almost 98 per cent of votes counted in Primorsky Krai, KPRF candidate Andrei Ischenko had a 28,000-vote lead over acting governor Andrei Tarasenko of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party when a string of late-declaring precincts declared suspicious 100 per cent votes for Mr Tarasenko.
An outcry from KPRF supporters in the coastal region has led its election commission to annul Mr Tarasenko’s victory and call another vote in December.
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
