Straight toward tomorrow’s trial: MOSCOW, April 16 — RIA Novosti. At its session on Tuesday, the State Duma passed in the first reading a presidential bill changing the system for electing the lower house of parliament: the proportional system, under which only parties take part in elections, is being replaced by a mixed majoritarian-proportional system, under which half of the deputies are elected from party lists and half from single-member districts. The new version of the law on State Duma elections provides for several innovations, such as banning people convicted of serious and especially serious crimes from running for the Duma, even if their criminal record has already expired. http://ria.ru/politics/20130416/932944763.html The new formula for staying in power, devised by the thieving Kremlin riffraff, is taking legal shape: open a fabricated case against anyone who poses a threat. give them a suspended sentence so there won’t be too much outcry keep the rival off the ballot
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