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The Grand Vote Theft - or why the East is so unstable

Russian government propaganda likes to pretend that the post-Soviet space is a harbour of stability compared to the tumultuous politics of central and western Europe.

The facts show the opposite.

Not counting the Baltic states, the 12 countries of the former Soviet Union suffer from five militarised border-conflicts and have seen eight massive upheavals around fraudulent elections in the last 20 years. Three governments were overthrown.

In the EU, the respective numbers a...

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

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