Trans-Dniester votes for split
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Voters in Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region back a plan to unite with Russia, officials say.
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Officials in eastern Ukraine say they will split their region from the rest of the country if opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko becomes president.
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Sunday's election outcome in Estonia could mean a shift to the right for this former Soviet country.Comment
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Bosnians appeared split in key elections on the country's future Sunday, with Muslims and Catholic Croats voting for politicians who want to unify the Balkan nation, but Serbs backing a candidate who advocates ethnic division, early results showed.
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Abkhazia, a Black Sea region which has been trying to split from Georgia, votes in parliamentary elections.
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Ukrainians voted Sunday in a presidential election viewed as a test of democracy in the former Soviet republic and an indicator of whether it will move closer to the West or cultivate its historically close ties to Russia.
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After three rounds of elections in two months, Ukrainian officials have named a victor.
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KIEV, Ukraine - Facing unrelenting opposition protests that have threatened to split the country, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma agreed Monday to support a new round of voting to resolve Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election results.
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Ukrainians voted for a new president on Sunday, choosing between their Russian-backed prime minister and a West-leaning liberal in a tight contest many fear could degenerate into turmoil.
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A deeply divided Ukraine votes Sunday in the race between presidential candidates who have increased the hostile rhetoric since their last fraud-tarnished runoff, sparking fears of violence that could split the ...
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Addressing the challenge of a political east/west split will be a top priority for a Yushchenko presidency, experts say.
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By Olena HorodetskaTIRASPOL, Moldova - Ex-Soviet Moldova's separatist Dnestr region voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether to press forward with their self-styled independence declared 16 years ago and ...
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Officials have announced that Transdnestr, a breakaway region of ex-Soviet Moldova, has voted overwhelmingly in a referendum in favour of joining Russia, strengthening Moscow's hand in this outpost on the edge of the European Union.
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One unfortunate outcome of Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election is that it has brought into stark relief an east-west divide within that large country.
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BUDAPEST, Dec. 12 (IPS) - Democratic or not, results say Igor Smirnov,  incumbent leader of the self-proclaimed  Republic of  Transnistria, will stay for a fourth consecutive term as he  promises to push the  region into a Russian embrace.
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Western-leaning liberal Viktor Yushchenko was favorite to win when Ukrainians began voting in a re-run presidential election on Sunday after a rigged ballot last month.
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Ukraine&#039;s pro-Russian parties formed a new governing coalition in a stunning move that promises to slow the pro-Western course taken by the ex-Soviet nation after the &amp;quot;orange revolution.&amp;quot;