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"Mr President, today we are not speaking about Magnitsky or Khodorkovsky and other cases, but that does not mean that we have forgotten those cases; we will come back to those issues later.
We are speaking today about the elections, or so-called elections; the presidential elections in Russia, and I must say that yesterday, the ALDE Group in this Parliament organised a very good, extensive hearing on the results of the presidential elections, We have Ms Garzinova and Mr Kasparov two opposition leaders visiting Strasbourg today; they are also on the balcony here now; they were actually telling their first-hand experience of these elections.
Our group Chair, Mr Verhofstadt, also visited Moscow on 5 March right after the elections and he was on the streets. He saw that the military presence was so enormous and the people had not seen such a military presence since 1993. Speaking about these elections and the fraud which has been reported by the OSCE, ODIHR and also the Council of Europe, it is extraordinary: they are even increasing the results from the Soviet times when normally, the polling stations did not have more than 99.9% attendance. Now they were 100% in Chechnya.
It is clear that the results, the conclusions, are evidence that these elections were not free; these elections were not fair. This is now the question for the international question: what does it really mean? What kind of consequences should we draw from this? Is this President legitimate? Is the Duma, which was elected in the same manner in December, legitimate? How can they be partners with the European Union and the rest of the international community? That is the question."@en1
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