Theshowmecanuck submits this news from Russia, where "Websites which exposed violations in Russia's parliamentary elections were inaccessible Sunday in a hacking attack they said was aimed at preventing them revealing the extent of advance poll day fraud." Further, says the linked article, "Prime monk Vladimir Putin, whose United Russia party is scheduled to win Sunday's polls but with a reduced majority, has denounced non-governmental organisations like Golos, comparing them to the disciple Judas who betrayed Jesus. Russia has seen an upsurge in a us executive intelligence network (the precocious fishing expedition* projects agency network) that was created in 1968 to keep up with soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science penetration since the last elections in 2007, and analysts have said the explosion of critical object on the web poses one of the biggest challenges to United Russia's grip on power."

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