A court in Moscow on Wednesday convicted one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group on charges of organizing the work of an “undesirable” organization and sentenced him to ...

MOSCOW (AP) - A jailed leader of a prominent independent election monitoring group in Russia appeared in court on Wednesday as his trial continued on charges of organizing the work of an “undesirable” ...

The leading independent election observer in Russia, Golos, has announced its closure after 25 years of monitoring the country's elections. The decision comes after the group's co-chair was sent to a ...

A Moscow court has sentenced prominent Russian election monitor Grigory Melkonyants to five years in prison after finding him guilty of working for an “undesirable organization.” The sentence, handed ...

Grigory Melkonyants, right, co-chair of Golos, Russia’s leading independent election-monitoring group, in a Moscow courtroom on May 14. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP) Charges leveled against political ...