Europe watchdog scraps plans to monitor Russia vote
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MOSCOW, Feb 7 (Reuters ) - Europe's main security and human rights watchdog said on Thursday it had cancelled plans to monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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Russia's top election authority on   Wednesday threw out a call for a people's poll that would clear   the way for President Vladimir Putin to stay on in power,   making it more likely he will step down as he plans in 2008.
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Europe's solution to the SWIFT problem The European Parliament has recommended that the only logical way to stop US anti-terrorist investigators from illegally snooping on European financial transactions is to get the firm handling them to remove its data from US shores.â¦
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Russia warns Europe and US against recognising independent state
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Russia's Foreign Ministry accused  Europe's main election watchdog on Friday of seeking to  sabotage plans for monitoring the March 2 presidential  election, which President Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate is  expected to win.
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The United States and Russia clashed at a European security forum Tuesday over the election monitoring that exposed fraud in Ukraine's election last month, elevating an increasingly tense debate over democracy in former Soviet republics.
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Russia on Wednesday expressed regret  that Europe's main election watchdog turned down concessions in  a dispute with Moscow over the monitoring of next month's  presidential vote, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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Russia offered on Tuesday to ease restrictions on international observers monitoring its March 2 presidential vote, but Europe's main election watchdog said the concessions did not go far enough.
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Warsaw rejects poll monitors from Europe's main security watchdog, saying Poland is a solid democracy.
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European election observers cited severe restrictions imposed on their work by the Russian government.
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The European Union is abandoning plans to force Britain to phase out the imperial measurement system.
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Some observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a Europe-wide security and rights forum, were barred from entering some polling stations in the United States, one of them said.
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Whatever the agenda was for Thursday&#39;s regular, semiannual meeting between Russia and the European Union, it has been superseded by events.
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Europe's top elections watchdog Thursday announced it would boycott Russia's presidential poll next month because of restrictions imposed by Moscow on its monitors.
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MOSCOW - After sharply cutting the number of of Western observers permitted to view polling places and drawing criticism from the United States, the Kremlin warned foreigners yesterday not to interfere in Russia's parliamentary elections.
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The president-elect of the European Commission has withdrawn his proposed EU executive team to avoid an unprecedented European Parliament defeat, plunging the 25-nation bloc into political turmoil.
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Russia dismissed on Thursday the latest United Nations draft resolution on the future of the province of Kosovo, saying it amounted to the same old Western-backed plan for independence dressed up in new language.