Uzbek Leader Scorns 'Revolutions' as Nation Votes
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Uzbekistan voted Sunday in a election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate "revolutions" such as those which shook Ukraine and Georgia.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was greeted with protests Monday as he prepared to address university students and speak before the U.N. General Assembly.
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Uzbeks head to the polls on Sunday in an election certain to extend President Islam Karimov's long rule and criticized by the opposition and human rights activists as a Soviet-style contest.
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President's victory celebrated before a ballot is cast, but dissent is met with imprisonment and intimidation.
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In a rare show of dissent in the Kremlin-controlled parliament, a former KGB officer-turned-lawmaker launched a scathing attack on President Vladimir Putin's electoral reform, saying Thursday it was pushing the nation back to its authoritarian past.
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Abkhazia's outgoing president on Tuesday denounced the election of his successor, warning that it could cost the breakaway republic its self-declared independence from Georgia.
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Europe&#39;s top election watchdog criticized Uzbekistan&#39;s parliamentary election, in which opposition groups were barred from running, saying Monday it fell significantly short of democratic standards.
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In 1991, landlocked Uzbekistan became a sovereign nation after decades of Russian and Soviet influence. Since 1990, Islam Karimov has been the areaâs most notorious politician.
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Islam Karimov is sworn in for a seven-year term as President of Uzbekistan, following elections in December
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A mere trickle of voters showed up at polling stations in Uzbekistan&#39;s capital yesterday in an election from which all opposition groups are barred.
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The Uzbek government says it has begun official preparations for presidential elections in late December.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has threatened to withdraw his support for nationwide elections unless changes are made to the electoral system.
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Uzbek officials said on Monday a weekend parliamentary election was free and fair, but opposition parties shut out of the poll called it a fraud and said the impoverished nation&#39;s patience was running out.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili claimed victory in presidential elections after an exit poll showed him winning outright, but the opposition cried foul and called for mass protests on Sunday.
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Uzbekistan&#39;s parliamentary elections have fallen significantly short of international standards, according to Europe&#39;s main human rights body.
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As people in this Central Asian oil-producing nation voted in critical parliamentary elections Sunday, both the government and opposition were trying to play the oil card to their own advantage.
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Chechnya&#39;s new leader vowed on Monday to rebuild the shattered region and crush extremists, after winning an election condemned by rights groups as a stage-managed show and by Washington as seriously flawed.