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Russia realised the power of foreign election-monitoring missions in Ukraine in 2004 (Photo: secretlondon123)

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How MEPs serve Russia via fake election-monitoring

When the European Parliament (EP) considered, on 1 March 2022, a resolution that condemned "in the strongest possible terms the Russian Federation's illegal, unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against and invasion of Ukraine", only 13 out of 676 MEPs who took part in the vote declined to support the motion.

Of all the recent EP resolutions that criticised the behaviour of president Vladimir Putin's Russia, the "Resolution on the Russian aggression against Ukraine" elicited t...

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Anton Shekhovtsov is director of Vienna-based NGO Centre for Democratic Integrity. This article is the fourth in a series of stories on Russian espionage in Belgium and the EU institutions in a project supported by journalismfund.eu, a Brussels-based NGO.

Russia realised the power of foreign election-monitoring missions in Ukraine in 2004 (Photo: secretlondon123)

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Anton Shekhovtsov is director of Vienna-based NGO Centre for Democratic Integrity. This article is the fourth in a series of stories on Russian espionage in Belgium and the EU institutions in a project supported by journalismfund.eu, a Brussels-based NGO.

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