Russian pro-Kremlin movement's monitors speak of "mass rigging" in Iraq election.

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax

Moscow, 1 February: Mass rigging was observed in the local elections in Iraq after the polls closed, the head of the monitoring group of the Nashi youth movement in Iraq, Konstantin Goloskokov, has told Interfax.

"The vote count was carried out not at polling stations but at city electoral commissions, and neither independent observers nor the press was present at the count at all," the head of the Nashi group said.

He said the procedure of compiling lists of voters on the basis of the so-called "bread cards" (which give one the right to claim food aid) rather then passports gave massive …