Vladimir Churov

Vladimir Churov Jewgenjewitsch (Russian: Владимир Евгеньевич Чуров; born March 17, 1953 in Leningrad ) is a Russian politician and, since March 27, 2007 Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

Biography

Criticism

Critics accuse Churov before he was due to his previous collaboration with Vladimir Putin not independent in his position as Chairman of the Electoral Commission, and feel vindicated by the course of the elections under his aegis. In an interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant he declared in April 2007, it was for him "law" that Putin is always right. For his election as Chairman of the Electoral Commission had specifically a rule be changed, as was previously envisaged that non-lawyers can take on this position. Furthermore Churov made ​​with utterances attention to himself, in which he, as unreliable described the usual in Western countries -election surveys, where voters will be asked about her going to the polling station after their election decision and created based on the data collected in a forecast, claiming employees the pollsters would manipulate such surveys. Critics suspect that had offset by the discrediting and prevention of post-election surveys situations like in the Ukraine in the 2004 presidential election, as discrepancies between the results of independent election surveys and official election results, the population in an uproar. For criticism of the conduct of the elections Churov himself said he would cut off his beard, when it should not go on fairly in the elections in Russia. Protesters called on him then to fulfill his promise ( see picture).