Russia `Filters´ Out The Competition In Regional Elections
(World News Russia)

Yevgeny Roizman, a political maverick and mayor of Russia´s fourth-largest city, doesn´t hedge when assessing his electoral chances in his region´s upcoming gubernatorial election -- if, of course, he could get on the ballot. `I´d win, plain and simple,` Roizman, who defeated Russian President Vladimir Putin´s ruling party in 2013 to become mayor of the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, said in...