{"id":50847,"date":"2026-09-04T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=50847"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:10:47","slug":"illegitimacy-without-borders-russias-state-duma-elections-in-transnistria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/illegitimacy-without-borders-russias-state-duma-elections-in-transnistria\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegitimacy without borders: russia\u2019s state duma \u201celections\u201d in Transnistria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia has set up polling stations in the russian-controlled Transnistrian region in defiance of Moldova\u2019s official position and direct ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Moldova\u2019s Foreign Ministry summoned the russian ambassador and handed him a note of protest. Chi\u0219in\u0103u authorized the opening of only one polling station at the russian embassy, while moscow is unilaterally planning to open 16 additional polling stations on the left bank of the Dniester.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f This blatant disregard for Moldova\u2019s sovereignty clearly demonstrates that russia is not even trying to pretend that its \u201celections\u201d comply with international law.<\/p>\n<p>The situation with the unauthorized polling stations in Transnistria is yet another confirmation that russia\u2019s September state duma \u201celections\u201d are nothing more than a farce and a simulation of democratic processes. The kremlin uses both occupied Ukrainian territories and territories of foreign states under its control to artificially inflate voter turnout and support for the kremlin regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia has set up polling stations in the russian-controlled Transnistrian region in defiance of Moldova\u2019s official position and direct ban. \u25ab\ufe0f Moldova\u2019s Foreign Ministry summoned the russian ambassador and handed him a note of protest. Chi\u0219in\u0103u authorized the opening of only one polling station at the russian embassy, while moscow is unilaterally planning to open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50850,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50847\/revisions\/50850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}