Text of report by heavyweight centrist Russian new

Text of report by heavyweight centrist Russian new

From wire reports MOSCOW With President Vladimir Putin's opponents persistently hobbled by the Kremlin, his party on Sunday swept to the kind of landslide long predicted for the parliamentary elections.

LEADING ARTICLE RUSSIA Early results in yesterday's election for the lower house of the Russian parliament, the Duma, had something for almost everyone inside the spectrum of opinion tolerated by the Kremlin - and almost nothing for anyone else.

European election monitors said Monday that Russia's parliamentary ballot was unfair, hours after President Vladimir Putin's party swept 70 percent of the seats in the new legislature.