{"id":1450649,"date":"2026-10-08T23:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-european-parliament-refused-to-recognize-the-results-of-the-russian-state-duma-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:02:42","slug":"the-european-parliament-refused-to-recognize-the-results-of-the-russian-state-duma-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-european-parliament-refused-to-recognize-the-results-of-the-russian-state-duma-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Parliament refused to recognize the results of the Russian State Duma elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The European Parliament has refused to recognize the results of the Russian State Duma elections, which took place on September 18-20. MEPs said they do not consider the newly elected Russian parliament to be a legitimate body of government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/B-10-2026-0444_EN.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is stated<\/a> in the relevant resolution of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p> In the document, the deputies condemned numerous violations during the voting. In particular, they stated about pressure on voters, intimidation of observers, and the actual destruction of democratic processes in Russia.<\/p>\n<p> Separately, the European Parliament drew attention to the use of so-called international observers. According to the deputies, Russia involved them to create the appearance of the legitimacy of the elections and spread disinformation.<\/p>\n<p> MEPs also condemned the holding of Russian elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, namely parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson regions.<\/p>\n<p> The European Parliament emphasized that they do not recognize the State Duma formed as a result of these elections as a legitimate representative and legislative body of Russia. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament has refused to recognize the results of the Russian State Duma elections, which took place on September 18-20. MEPs said they do not consider the newly elected Russian parliament to be a legitimate body of government. This is stated in the relevant resolution of the European Parliament. In the document, the deputies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1441961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1450649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1441961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}