Putins party wins

Putin's party wins, but suffers a blow to the Russian elections

United Russia loses a lot of power and maneuverability to get around 50% of the vote.

In 2007 achieved 67% of the vote.

The Communist Party is the second largest party with 20%.

Putin played out ahead of the 2012 presidential.

Allegations of irregularities and cyber attacks.

Russian cosmonauts also voted from space.

The ruling party United Russia (RU) of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin once again won the parliamentary elections on Sunday in Russia , although strongly weakened compared to the previous elections of 2007 (so did 67% of the vote and 315 seats).

With 93% of the votes counted RU gets around 50% of the votes. This means that the ruling party loses the constitutional majority (300 out of 450 seats in the Duma or lower house) and, as highlighted by the president of Russia and number one on the UK list, Dmitri Medvedev , "will have to seek support from other game. " The next most voted was the Communist Party with almost 20%.

Recipients by falling popularity of the Communists UK, almost double the 2007 result , at least two other parties, the Social Just Russia (RJ) and the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, Parliament would agree also with the 12% to 13 % and 11% to 14%, respectively.

The benefit from falling popularity of RU are primarily the Communists almost doubled the result of 2007 (11.5%), as Fair Russia (7.7%). Also increased the nationalists of the eccentric Vladimir Yirinovski, which won four years ago by 7.7%.

Loss of power in Parliament

The loss of the constitutional majority in Parliament, United Russia held until now means that you will not have much freedom to enact reforms that are expected. The result also would be a blow to Vladimir Putin , United Russia candidate ahead of the 2012 presidential.

United Russia claims victory

Before they left the official results, the ruling party United Russia proclaimed his victory: "United Russia has won," said Boris Gryzlov, chairman of the Supreme Council of the ruling party.

The UK leader attributed to the crisis the sharp decline of the ruling party and recalled that in several European countries the crisis caused the electoral defeat of the ruling parties. "Amid the global economic crisis have received the support of the electorate. While in the UK, Spain and Portugal in the 2010-2011 elections the ruling parties changed us and we can say that UK will continue (the party) ruling, " said.

Allegations of fraud and cyber attacks

The opposition parties, especially communist denounced the multiple violations of electoral law detected during Election Day.

While the ruling party accused the opposition of "campaigning" during the day, the opposition denounced fraud in favor of the ruling party. "We have seen a sea of violations," declared the Communists. Meanwhile, the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party echoed: "The geography of violations covers the entire country." For its part, Yabloko surmounted saying that "elections have become the game of 'catch the forger red-handed.'"

The day was also marked by distributed denial of service (DDOS) left unused web pages radio Echo of Moscow and the electoral observation NGO Golos (The Vow). Alexei Venediktov, director of Echo of Moscow, said the attack against the station is "an attempt to prevent dissemination of information on irregularities in the elections. "