They'd been in crisis – a real, genuine crisis, with whistles and hankies and protests and complaints campaigns – and yet, somehow, they had ended it holding the cup, fans gathering at Cibeles for another party.
In the complaint, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood argues that the videos are marketed to mislead parents into thinking that reading in infancy will give their children a head start.
Golos maintains a Web site where Russians can file complaints about campaign abuses.
It has established a highly effective online collection center for thousands of complaints about campaign and electoral irregularities — including evidence of payments from officials in return for votes.
The groups cite examples of how the commission has split along party lines, ensuring no action on complaints on campaign finances.
Since then, opposition candidates have been given additional television time, and the government has set up a telephone line for complaints about campaign irregularities.
Political action committees devoted to a single candidate are flourishing, prompting complaints from campaign finance watchdogs about the blurring of lines between official campaigns and outside groups, The Washington Post says.
MOSCOW — A Moscow court on Friday ruled that the country's sole independent election watchdog had broken Russian law by publishing citizens' complaints of campaign abuses during the run-up to parliamentary elections this weekend.
Golos, the country's only independent election monitor, which was fined $1,000 by a Moscow court on Friday for breaking the law by publishing complaints of campaign abuses, had its Web site disabled by a cyberattack on Sunday morning.
The Iraqi electoral commission has received 692 complaints of campaign violations or voter fraud, at least 20 of which are considered potentially serious enough to "affect specific election results," said Adel al-Lami, the commission's chief electoral officer.
