Examples of using Duma election in English and their translations into Russian
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It is less than two weeks until the Duma elections.
The Duma election campaign has officially begun.
They"haven't learned any lessons from their defeat at the Duma elections.".
In the State Duma elections in December 1995, the APR did not make it over the 5% threshold, obtaining only 3.78% of the votes.
Most likely, this money will be enough until the end of the year, until the Duma elections.
As the author thinks,a consolidated showing of the left at the Duma elections cannot be by itself the ultimate goal of the union.
In Yavlinsky's view,this idea at best will help to draw more electors out to the Duma elections.
Then again, if United Russia manages a convincing victory in the Duma election, it might be entrusted with nominating the Kremlin's presidential candidate.".
Baburin made no secret of his new-look party's intention to compete in the Duma election.
It makes sense to dismiss the government not this spring, but as the Duma elections are approaching(which are to take place in 2007).
However, says Diskin,it's entirely possible that these days the siloviki"have no interest at all in the parliament or the Duma election of 2007.".
Compared to Moscow, political activity in the Russian regions after the 2011 Duma elections was initially weak and calmed down much faster than in the capital.
According to preliminary figures, United Russia's weakest performance was in the Irkutsk region(around 50% of the vote,compared to 58.5% in the Duma elections).
And then Putin would name his successor based on the Duma election results, saying that he's basing his choice on the preferences of voters.
My delegation is studying the just-released preliminary report of the ODIHR/OSCE Parliamentary Assembly observers regarding the Duma elections in the Russian Federation.
Toward the end of the Duma election campaign, the SPS switched to hardline criticism of the Putin regime- and Nemtsov was the party's leading orator at the time.
Most of the experts approached by the Novye Izvestia newspaper predict that this year's Duma election campaign will break all financial records.
With less than six months to go until the Duma election, the uncoordinated jigsaw puzzle of the opposition is coming together into a pleasing picture for the Kremlin, according to Gazeta. ru.
But now, for some reason,Kasyanov is hoping to register a new party- not for the Duma election, but for his own nomination as a presidential candidate.
The Gazeta newspaper maintains that Medvedev's nomination has been announced earlybecause Putin is(oddly enough) disappointed with the Duma election results.
The solution to the Year 2007 Problem- that is, the Duma election- is becoming quite clear six months before its culmination, according to Gazeta. ru correspondent Mikhail Fishman.
According to RIA Novosti, political analysts say that Yabloko's split into radicals andmoderates became apparent after the Duma elections, where Yabloko got 1.59% of the vote.
Another point of suspense in the Duma election focuses on whether the Kremlin parties can manage to get the potential successors into their ranks(Sergei Ivanov and Dmitri Medvedev, for instance).
It is logical, Izvestia writes, that Putin"did not wish to be in the place of Luzhkov on whose head the"Dorenko meteorite" fell every week during the Duma election campaign.".
Medvedev accepted the invitation of Prime Minister Putin to head the party in the State Duma elections and said that in his opinion Putin should run for President in 2012.
Boris Makarenko, deputy director of the Political Techniques Center, told Kommersant that the SPS is in trouble: its support rating is low,and Vladimir Putin directed some harsh criticism at it last week. So the party is attempting to use the presidential candidate project in the Duma election rather than the presidential election. .
Direct elections for regional leaders have been abolished, Duma election rules have been tightened, many civil rights have been restricted, and practically all influential media outlets have been taken over by the state.
On the other hand, Pavlovsky assured Kommersant that United Russia has"chosen an entirely proper campaign strategy" by deciding to turn the Duma election into a referendum on confidence in Vladimir Putin.
According to the first theory,none of the"successors" will be drawn into the parliamentary campaign; the Duma election will go ahead on its own, and Vladimir Putin won't announce any successor preference until January, or even February.
They observe that"it wouldn't be a bad thing, overall," but since the two leading parties still haven't become equal, and there's no question of Russia having a classictwo-party model as yet, Putin probably wouldn't choose to undermine any of his potential"successors" by sending them to join parties whose results in the Duma election will be less than spectacular.