A Russian NGO revealing electoral fraud are in power collimator just before elections, after Vladimir Putin assigned the role of "Judas", prosecutor opening an investigation, and a national television broadcasting compromising revelations.
Observers Golos (Glas), an association supported by Western funds, which monitors several years conducting polls in Russia, says that there have never been subjected to such pressure. "It confirms that Putin is afraid of us, which surprised me even me," he told AFP, Arkady Liubarev.

Ruling party, United Russia, which dominated the country for a decade, declined in popularity and will fail, according to surveys, to maintain an overwhelming majority of two thirds of the State Duma (lower house of Parliament) to its allow, if necessary, to change the Constitution.
According to a recent survey of independent Levada Institute, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin party, who as head of the list is President Dmitry Medvedev, was credited in November with 56 percent of voting intentions, after losing 12 percentage points in a single month.

In September, Golos has created an interactive site that repertorizat nearly 5,000 cases of pressure or irregularities in the campaign for legislative elections on Sunday, mostly attributed to United Russia party. The site, which posted testimony, was viewed 860,000 times in three months.

Moderators site states that are unable to verify the information, but that they transmit to the competent authorities. They point out that the project is "open to all, regardless of political opinions."

However, non-governmental organization (NGO) is in the collimator power.

Vladimir Putin denounced on 27 November, during a congress of United Russia Patidului, in which was designated candidate presidential elections in March 2012, foreign funding of Russian NGOs, in order "to influence elections in our country. " He compared these NGOs "Judas".

Asked the three members of the State Duma in Moscow prosecutor announced an investigation against Golos Thursday on charges of spreading the "rumors". NGO was sentenced Friday to pay a fine amounting to 30,000 rubles (700 euros) for breach of electoral law.

The day before, a principal editor of the online information site, gazeta.ru, Partner Golos, resigned denouncing the "pressure".

In Chelyabinsk (Urals), Nizhny Novgorod (Volga) and Barnaul (Siberia), Golos activists were summoned and threatened with sanctions, pressures denounced human rights activists.

Also, the television channel NTV, controlled gas giant Gazprom, aired Friday night a 30-minute film that accuses NGO that works on behalf of the United States, which it finances to show the dark colors of the Russian elections .

Without making a connection with the NGO, the authors also stated that the Embassy of Sweden film in Russia, acting on behalf of all United States, "enrolled" students Russians, inviting them to seminars on democracy.

In response, the United States said on Friday evening were "proud to support Golos, which aims at strengthening democratic institutions and processes (election) and not to influence elections."

A White House spokesman, Tommy lives, said that the presidency of Barack Obama is "concerned about the decision" judicial Friday against Golos, "but also what appears to be a systematic harassment of this organization."

Golos said that the campaign representatives, whose victims consider that are cause for "embarrassment" for power. "When the authorities panic, they used improper methods," notes Liubarev.