The International Press Institute (IPI) has expressed concern over new legislative initiatives by the Georgian government and ruling party that restrict independent media funding.
In order to increase turnout, the heads of budgetary organizations in Crimea force their subordinates to go to polling stations for the voting procedure. Today is the beginning of voting in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, the Tribunal reported. Crimean episode." Observers of the “Crimean episode” received evidence of this from Simferopol, Bakhchisarai, Kerch, Saki, Sovetsky and Krasnogvardeisky districts.
State employees must not only come to the polling stations, but also take a photograph of a correctly completed ballot. Then these photos need to be posted on your pages on social networks with different hashtags. For this purpose, those who did not have their own accounts on social networks were forced to register them, the Tribunal noted. Crimean episode."