Russian Election Monitor: 2026 State Duma Elections – Candidate Registration
The Election Atlas project reviews the nomination and registration of candidates for the State Duma elections. The registration process is formally not yet complete, but all party lists have already been registered. The only outstanding questions concern a small number of self-nominated candidates, the overwhelming majority of whom are unlikely to be registered. REM is publishing an […]
Russian Election Monitor: Supreme Court Bars Yabloko – Inside the Lawsuit and the Regime’s Fear of Losing Control
On August 10, the most pivotal event of the current Russian electoral cycle unfolded: Russia’s Supreme Court annulled the registration of the Yabloko party’s candidate list following a lawsuit filed by the Rodina party. While framed as a routine legal dispute, the verdict points to a broader systemic shift—the authorities’ growing fear of losing control over the […]
ElectLab Academy 2026: Action Plans to Strengthen Resilience of Citizen Election Observers
ElectLab Academy 2026: Action Plans to Strengthen Resilience of Citizen Election Observers 62 citizen election observers from 22 countries attended EPDE’s ElectLab Academy 2026 in Bergamo, Italy, from 13 to 18 July, for a week of training addressing organisational resilience, engaging youth as strategic actors, and train-the-trainer approaches to expertise transfer. The ElectLab Academy has […]
Webinar | After the Vote: FIMI Tactics and Their Reach in Moldova and Armenia | 6 July | 14:30 CET
The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) is pleased to invite you to the webinar “After the Vote: FIMI Tactics and Their Reach in Moldova and Armenia” on 6 July at 14:30 CET. Following elections in both Moldova (2025) and Armenia (2026), this session assesses the foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns that targeted both votes […]
Money in Politics Conference: EPDE in Chișinău
The fourth edition of the Money in Politics conference, held on 16–17 June 2026 in Chișinău, brought together electoral oversight bodies and civil society from across Europe to address the growing challenges of political finance in the digital age. EPDE partners were among the key voices: Building on the Romanian experience, Septimius Pârvu (Expert Forum, […]
Russian Election Monitor: Update on Preparations for the State Duma Vote
The Russian Election Monitor published its latest Election Update on preparations for the 2026 State Duma elections. Russia is preparing for the State Duma vote. The newly appointed Central Election Commission (CEC) has announced that the voting will span three days — a norm in Russian elections since the COVID-19 pandemic — from 18 to 20 September […]
Armenia: European election experts stand in solidarity with Armenian citizen election observers
Parliamentary elections of the Republic of Armenia, 7 June 2026 Yerevan, 8 June 2026 The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED, Georgia), the European Dialogue and Democracy Association (EDDA Norway), Promo-LEX Association (Moldova), and the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) […]
Armenia | Anatomy of a Threat: Phone Calls, Emails, and the Same IP Trace
On 3 June, 2026, EPDE member Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor (HCAV) made public that it received telephone and electronic threats related to the upcoming elections on June 7. Analyses of language and IP addresses suggest a foreign origin of the threats. From Norayr Alekyan, HCAV IT Specialist. The threats began with phone calls. Starting at 15:19, […]
Azerbaijan | Victims of a Decade of Repression Going Unheard, a Roadmap for Europe
As the Parliamentary Assembly prepares to adopt a new text on the silencing of independent voices in Azerbaijan, its findings echo what the Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan, has documented: a decade of repression. The case Anar Mammadli, co-founder of the EPDE and head of Azerbaijan’s only independent election observation organization EMDS, shows the […]
Training in Zambia: Strengthening Youth Participation in Elections
On 27-29 May 2026, the European Exchange and the EPDE, together with its local partner the Christian Churches Monitoring Group (CCMG), brought together youth-focused and election-related civil society organizations in Lusaka, Zambia, for a three-day training on youth participation in democratic and electoral processes. The training united project managers, civic educators, and election practitioners to […]
