A Russian polling expert, Igor Borisov, has lambasted the Scottish Independence referendum process, in an interview with state media yesterday.
Borisov, who used to chair Russia’s Central Election Commission, a governmental organisation, claimed that the poll failed to meet basic international norms.
Voting in Scotland “do[es] not conform to generally accepted international principles of referendums,” Borisov told RIA Novosti, a Russian-state news agency. Borisov and three other “experts” from the Russian Public Institute for Election Rights had travelled to Edinburgh to observe the voting and meet with representatives of NGOs, politicians and voters in the run-up to the referendum.
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Source: Newsweek
