Uzbek president wins election 'farce'
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Dissidents condemn EU inaction over regime after law is flouted as leader prolongs rule yet again
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The incumbent Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has emerged as the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election marred by irregularities, head of the joint UN-Afghan election commission announced here Wednesday.
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Indications show that Afghanistan&#39;s Interim President Hamid Karzai has won the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history.
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A mere trickle of voters showed up at polling stations in Uzbekistan&#39;s capital yesterday in an election from which all opposition groups are barred.
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Uzbek voters are casting ballots in a parliamentary poll from which opponents to President Karimov are barred.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Interim leader Hamid Karzai has won a majority of estimated votes cast in Afghanistan's landmark presidential elections, according to preliminary results released yesterday.
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Uzbekistan's parliamentary election on  Sunday fell significantly short of international standards  because it involved only parties loyal to President Islam  Karimov, Europe's main human rights body said on Monday.
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Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's only president since independence from Soviet rule, was heading for certain victory on Monday following a weekend presidential election condemned as a sham by the opposition.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili claimed victory in presidential elections after an exit poll showed him winning outright, but the opposition cried foul and called for mass protests on Sunday.
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Uzbekistan's parliamentary election on  Sunday fell significantly short of international standards  because it featured only parties loyal to President Islam  Karimov, Europe's main human rights body said on Monday.
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Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party won every available seat in the next parliament, early results showed on Monday after a weekend election sharply criticized by Western monitors and the opposition.
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The main rivals of Afghan President Hamid Karzai swallowed their bitterness on Thursday over cases of vote fraud and accepted defeat a day after a UN-Afghan election panel declared Karzai the winner of a historic Oct. 9 election.
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The Kremlin&#39;s choice for president of Chechya, Alu Alkhanov, has won the troubled region&#39;s presidential election, officials said today.
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In an action that many Western countries opposed, Ukraine&#39;s Central Election Commission today declared Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich the winner in a presidential election denounced by the opposition as marked by mass fraud.
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President Islam Karimov, the authoritarian and repressive leader of Uzbekistan, was seeking to extend his rule in a tightly controlled election that featured three other candidates Â all of whom publicly supported his policies.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 14 -- A new president of Turkmenistan was inaugurated Wednesday following a tightly scripted election and an officially tallied landslide of 90 percent of the vote, a victory that Western observers and exiled opposition leaders said was the only result permitted.
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Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party won every available seat in the next parliament, preliminary results showed on Monday, following a weekend election condemned as rigged by the opposition.