The Associated Press and the Moscow Times both report today that workers and students are being pressured to vote for the United Russia party in Sunday's parliamentary election: "... each one of us has to get 10 people to vote for United Russia, and we have to provide our superiors with a list of the names of these people ... People have told us that they have been threatened with dismissal if they don't vote for United Russia ... they should vote and to find friends to vote for United Russia or state funding for the clinic would end ... Some have said they were warned they would lose their job if they did not comply ... People are complaining that their bosses are forcing them to take the certificates and vote for whom they say..."
Russian democracy vs. capitalist democracy ... something to be said about the little niceties.
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