Russia - Election Monitor Group, Golos, Faces Threat of Eviction - NYTimes.com Russia's only independent elections monitor has been told by its landlord to either find new office space or expect continual power failures from now until March 6, severely hampering the group's ability to monitor the presidential election on March 4. The organization, Golos (whose name means "vote" in Russian), first came under attack nearly two months ago, as it prepared to send out 3,000 monitors to document any violations in parliamentary elections and created an interactive map for people to upload video and photographs of any election violations directly from their mobile phones. Lawmakers began calling for the group to be investigated, and state-controlled television broadcast a documentary suggesting that Golos, which receives most of its budget from Western governments, served American interests and aimed to incite an Arab Spring-type revolution in Russia.