OSCE to boycott Russian election
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Europe's main election watchdog says it will boycott Russia's presidential election on 2 March.
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Britain said Monday it will expel four Russian diplomats over Moscow&#39;s refusal to extradite a key suspect in the murder of ex agent Alexander Litvinenko, raising the spectre of a Cold War-style standoff.
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Britain is to expel four Russian diplomats in protest over Moscow's refusal to extradite a key suspect in the poisoning of a former KGB agent.
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An international election monitoring group sent an advance team to Russia Wednesday amid complaints that Kremlin-imposed restrictions would hamper its ability to observe next month's presidential election.
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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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Â· OSCE says restrictions prevent it doing its jobÂ· Russia accuses observers of double standards
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Russian officials say there are grounds to bar opposition activist Mikhail Kasyanov from the presidential race.
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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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Russian opposition challenger Mikhail Kasyanov should be disqualified from a March 2 presidential vote because of forged registration documents, the secretary of the Central Election Commission said on Thursday.
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10 October 2004 -- (NCA) -- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said today that Afghan candidates&#39; demands to nullify yesterday&#39;s presidential election and hold a re-vote are not justified.
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In a veiled swipe at the United States and its United States allies such as Israel, Russia&#39;s foreign minister said Sunday his country opposed a Security Council resolution demanding free presidential elections here and a Syrian troop withdrawal out of
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An Uzbek opposition party announced Saturday that it would boycott next month's parliamentary vote, saying the government has failed to embrace democracy and calling on the international community to ignore the election.
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Western election observers on Tuesday  rejected concessions offered by Russia's presidential election  chief and demanded to be allowed to enter the country earlier  than the February 20 date suggested by Moscow.
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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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Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasayanov  was nominated on Saturday by his opposition movement to run in  next year&#39;s presidential election and promised to stop the  Kremlin orchestrating the vote in its favor.
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The Russian president rejected the idea of new Ukrainian elections and criticized European efforts to mediate.
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An international election monitoring organization said Thursday that it will not observe Russia's presidential election next month because of the "severe restrictions" imposed by the Kremlin.