New ruling leaves key Russian opposition banned and voting relegated to practical one party system | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Russia’s joint Democratic Coalition, led by renowned anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny and the supporters of the late opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, has been refused the right to run for election across all the regions where they opted to campaign on the grounds of irregularities in their applications, Russian national daily Kommersant reports. Local council elections in…