Kyrgyzstan set for key election
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People in Kyrgyzstan prepare to vote in a parliamentary election that could end two years of turmoil.
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The Armenian-controlled breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh was holding a presidential election Thursday amid a rumbling dispute with Azerbaijan over the mountainous enclave's unrecognized independence.
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Oil-rich Kazakhstan prepared to vote  Sunday in a parliamentary poll criticized by the West and all  but written off as unfair by opposition parties.
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BISHKEK, Jan 29 (IPS) - The central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has  adopted a new constitution specifically banning all taking of  life and lawyers are now drafting revisions to its legal code  replacing the maximum criminal sentence of death by firing squad  with long prison terms.
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GROZNY, Russia - Against a backdrop of war, squalor and terrorism, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to the violence-torn region. A man was killed when he attempted to blow up a polling station...
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KIEV: Voting began Sunday in Ukraine&#39;s presidential elections, seen as a critical test for the future of democratic development in the former Soviet state, a foreign news agency reported.
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The Kremlin&#39;s preferred candidate was poised for election as head of Russia&#39;s conflict-torn republic of Chechnya last night, after a day of voting marred by at least one death and allegations of improper conduct.
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OISKHARA, Russia - Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to the violence-torn region. A man was killed when he attempted to blow up a polling station...
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For weeks now, the talk in Kyrgyz opposition circles has been dominated by questions about the disappearance of Tursunbek Akunov, a well-known human rights defender who is the head of a relatively hardline but ...
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After years of anarchy, Somalia is poised to set up a new parliament which will elect a president.
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The people of Central Asia are keeping a close eye on Ukraine. Over the next three months, all of the Central Asian republics except Kazakhstan are scheduled to hold legislative elections.
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The people of Turkmenistan, ruled for more than two decades by an eccentric autocrat, are about to vote for his replacement in their first presidential election with more than one candidate &#151; but still only one party.
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Kyrgyz voters went to the polls on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election expected to hand President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party an overwhelming victory though it has been criticized as undemocratic by the opposition.
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Ukraine&#39;s parliament is to hold key votes on Tuesday that could pave the way to a snap election, ending a two-month political crisis in this ex-Soviet republic.
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Voting started in Kazakhstan's parliamentary elections which are expected to be dominated by the parties supporting President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled this oil-rich central Asian nation since the late Soviet era.
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Kyrgyzstan s government has been rattled by recent events in Ukraine, where mass protests by the opposition forced a re-run of a presidential election they said was rigged.
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Tension was high in Ukraine Saturday as the nation prepared to vote for a new president in an election that pits West against East.