Georgian region to vote on independence
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Leaders of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia said Monday they would hold a referendum on independence in November &#151; a move likely to infuriate the government in Tbilisi and stoke already spiraling tensions.
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Opposition leaders alleged Friday that Georgia's local and regional elections were riddled with fraud, but international monitors said the balloting was conducted "with general respect for fundamental freedoms."
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Members of the Basque parliament vote in favour of greater independence from Spain.
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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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Georgia's main opposition leader says the authorities are preparing to rig Saturday's presidential election.
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Abkhazians are taking their democratic rights seriously as they vote to replace the man who led their fight for independence from Georgia.
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President Ibrahim Rugova's pro-independence party looked set yesterday to keep its dominance in Kosovo after weekend elections which were marred by an ethnic Serb boycott.
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The breakaway Abkhazia region of Georgia holds its first ever multi-candidate elections for president.
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Georgian government forces engaged separatists in battle Thursday for strategic areas in South Ossetia in some of the worst fighting in the breakaway region since a war began more than a decade ago.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo could soon be Europe's newest independent state, but the Albanian majority in Serbia's breakaway province still has to decide on a name, a flag and an anthem.
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South Ossetia has been a de-facto independent region of Georgia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6 -- Supporters of Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili began celebrating late Saturday as preliminary exit polls indicated he would narrowly avoid a runoff in this former Soviet republic's presidential election.
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Georgians voted on Saturday in a presidential election expected to hand the former Soviet state's leader a narrow win, but opponents accused him of rigging the poll and threatened street protests.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili appeared on course for a narrow win in the former Soviet state's presidential election on Saturday after the main independent exit poll handed him 52.5 percent of the vote.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- President Mikhail Saakashvili appeared poised for an election victory on Saturday, according to early exit poll results in this former Soviet republic where the former hero of democracy now faces accusations of authoritarian leanings.
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SKOPJE, Macedonia Voters are set go to the polls here Sunday in a referendum that will test the success of a three-year-long peace process to allay tensions between Macedonians and ethnic Albanians in this former Yugoslav republic.
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Georgian forces seized strategic heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his fractious country.