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Erna Oldudottir

Versions of names: Erna Ýr Öldudóttir, Эрна Олдудоттир
Iceland

Erna Ýr Öldudóttir is a journalist from Iceland. She currently publishes predominantly for the Fréttin independent news media that covers current issues both domestically and abroad.

Missions

Individual Observers at the 2022 pseudo-referendum for the formal annexation of occupied territories of Donetsk to Russia

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Institutional affiliation to Fréttin independent news media

Icelandic journalist Erna Oldudottir, observing the voting at a polling station in Moscow, noted that she did not notice any violations. “The main voting, of course, takes place outside the Moscow region, but from the little that I saw here, no violations were noticed,” she emphasized. [Translated from Russian]

https://rossaprimavera.ru/article/8f5506ff (2023-09-17)
Individual Observers at the 2023 territorial pseudo-elections in the occupied territories of Ukraine

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Institutional affiliation to Fréttin independent news media

These were fair, democratic elections, which, unfortunately, is no longer the case in Europe now. [...] And if we talk about what we saw here, there were queues to vote. At all three sites where we visited, people were happy to come and leave their voices in order to preserve their cultural heritage and speak their native language. [Translated from Russian]

International "observers" and "experts" observe the 2024 Russian Presidential Elections

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Institutional affiliation to Fréttin media



The Russian media Mezhdu Strok published an article about the elections quoting Erna Ýr Öldudóttir's comments about the process. The presence of international observers served to validate the elections conducted both within Russia and in the Ukrainian territories under Russian occupational control.

es, everything is honest and open. There are even some things that we would like to adopt into the electoral system of our country. [Translated from Russian]

Corresponding elections

Referendum Election Ukraine Occupied territories 2022
illegitimate
From 23 to 27 September 2022, the Russian forces organised a sham election process - pseudo-referendum as a pretext for the formal annexation of the regions of occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson by Russia. The annexation of the four regions was announced on 30 September 2022.
Local & Regional Election Ukraine Occupied territories 2023
illegitimate
From 8 to 10 September 2023, the Russian forces organised widely condemned regional and municipal elections in the regions of occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. The results were largely rejected by the international community, with North Korea and Syria being the only ones to explicitly recognise them.
Presidential Election Russia Occupied Territories 2024
illegitimate
During the “presidential elections” held in Russia from 15-17 March 2024, Vladislav Davankov (“New People” party), Nikolay Kharitonov (Communist Party), Vladimir Putin, and Leonid Slutsky (Liberal-Democratic Party) competed for the presidency. Enabled to run yet again by controversial constitutional amendments effective 4 July 2020, Putin dominated the “elections” together with his controlled “opposition” excluding genuine opposition figures. These “elections” occurred under Putin’s regime control, both within Russia and illegally in occupied Ukrainian territories, including Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, ARC and Sevastopol.