Russia: Alternative Voting Portal Launched · Global Voices
Alexey Sidorenko

Habrahabr-user uhaby writes [ru] about otdamgolos.ru, a web-portal that offers users to propose alternative parliamentary and presidential candidates as well as to vote for them. The author claims that within 10 days his website attended 137,500+ visitors. In the virtual parliamentary election three parties received most votes: 1. The Pirate Party, 2. Yabloko (social liberal), 3. CPRF (communists). Most popular presidential candidates are: blogger Alexey Navalny, imprisoned oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, “Against Everybody.”