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CIS-EMO

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Commonwealth of the Independent States - Election Monitoring Organization (CIS-EMO) — is an international non-governmental organization founded by the Commonwealth of Independent States. CIS-EMO conducts election observation missions and prepares reports, which sometimes conflict with the findings of Western election monitoring organizations.{{cite news |last= Kelley|first=Judith |date=March 29, 2012 |title=Election Monitoring: Power, Limits, and Risks |url= https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/election-monitoring-power-limits-and-risks|work=CFR |location=Washington DC |access-date=March 29, 2018}} It was founded in 2003 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and was led by Aleksey Kochetkov. As an NGO, it is different from other observers sent by the CIS.{{cite news |last= Kupchinsky|first=Roman |date=April 2, 2005 |title=CIS: Monitoring The Election Monitors |url= https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/election-monitoring-power-limits-and-risks|work=CFR |location=Washington DC |access-date=April 2, 2015}} CIS-EMO "tried to legitimise practices of electoral authoritarianism and always remained loyal to the objectives of Russia’s foreign policy in the post-Soviet space".{{Cite book |last=Shekhovtsov |first=Anton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1rA0DwAAQBAJ&dq=Kochetkov+ukraine+nazi&pg=PT86 |title=Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir |date=2017-09-08 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-19995-3 |language=en}}

CIS-EMO International Monitoring Missions

CIS-EMO participated in observing the following elections:

EU Important Members of CIS-EMO Missions

Status on the moment of participation.

CIS-EMO Activities

CIS-EMO participates and organizes different events such as:

  • Round table in the European Parliament ‘Controlled Democracy in Russia?’, March 2009, Brussels;
  • International conference ‘ Civic institutions in the election process. Control and maintaining’ in the Public Chamber of Russia, January 2009, Moscow;
  • Conference ‘ Voting for democracy? ’, December 2009, Berlin;
  • Round table ‘Dynamics in the developing of the democratic institutions in the Republic of South Ossetia in the first year after having been recognized’, May 2009, Tskhinvali;
  • Round table ‘Investment potential of South Ossetia: complex approach, problems and perspectives’, 2010, Tskhinvali;
  • School of international observers, September, 2010, Kyrgyzstan;
  • OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting, July 2008, Vienna;
  • Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Democratic Lawmaking, OSCE, November 2008, Vienna;
  • Round table ‘ Civil Society in Law System of Modern Europe’, January 2009, Athens;
  • Election conference of the party ‘European Left’, 2009, Berlin;
  • International conference ‘Global Europe’, EUP, 2009, Brussels;
  • Forum ‘European Union and Russia: new perspectives’, EUP, 2009, Brussels;
  • Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum - ‘Modern State: standards of democracy and criteria of effectiveness’, September 2009, Yaroslavl;
  • Review Conference, September 2010, Warsaw;
  • Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE, October 2011, Warsaw;
  • Round table ‘Election Systems of States of Old Democracy’, RIA Novosti, February, 2012, Moscow.

See also

References

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External links

  • [http://www.cis-emo.net Official CIS-EMO website]

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