DISINFO: There is a lot of disinformation circulating in the West about the Duma elections
SUMMARY
The European Union will never recognise that the elections to the Russian State Duma were not manipulated and were fair because it wants to delegitimise the Russian parliament.
RESPONSE
It is a long-standing narrative that seeks to create the impression that the EU is wrongly biased against Russia and that Russian elections are fair.
According to both the OSCE and the EU, the Russian Federation decisions limited the number of international OSCE ODIHR observers, and the observation mission was far from sufficient. See here the EU declaration on the elections.
There is much evidence that elections in Russia have been rigged for a long time, as have been the case in recent elections.
See similar cases on Russian Duma elections here.