Head of Russia’s only independent election watchdog receives 5-year prison sentence

Head of Russia’s only independent election watchdog receives 5-year prison sentence

The head of Russia's only independent election watchdog was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in a penal colony after being found guilty of working with an "undesirable organization."Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Golos movement, was arrested in August 2023. He

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