Uzbek leader gears up for long rule after election
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Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's only president since independence from Soviet rule, was heading for victory on Monday following a weekend presidential election criticized as undemocratic by Western observers.
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Turkmenistan is set to inaugurate its new leader, following the death of  President Saparmurat Niyazov.
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- President Islam Karimov slammed Europe&#39;s top election watchdog for criticizing Sunday&#39;s parliamentary vote in this Central Asian nation, where all opposition groups were barred from running for office.
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Foreign minister becomes first former Islamist to hold presidency.
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Pakistan's ruling party has enough votes to re-elect President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to a new five-year term, and the vote will likely take place in the first week of October, top party officials said Saturday.
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Kyrgyz leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev looks set for a landslide victory in elections, early results show.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is on course for a clear victory in the country's historic election, with more than half the votes counted.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's ruling party assured President Pervez Musharraf yesterday that he had the votes to be elected to a new five-year term in October, before opposition leader Benazir Bhutto returns from exile. The president is chosen by national and provincial lawmakers. Bhutto, the former prime minister who plans to return Oct. 18, had urged that the presidential vote be ...
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: Interim leader Hamid Karzai, was on course on Sunday to become Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected leader, as results poured in from its landmark vote for President.
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President Mikhail Saakashvili headed for victory in Saturday's election, according to an exit poll in this former Soviet republic where he is fighting accusations of authoritarian tendencies four years after coming to power as a champion of democracy.
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If there is one common concern that people in Uzbekistan share it is their president's silence.
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Uzbekistan is to vote in a presidential election widely expected to be won by incumbent Islam Karimov.
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GROZNY, Russia  - Chechnya's new leader vowed  Monday to rebuild the shattered region and crush extremists  after winning an election condemned by a rights group as a show  stage-managed by Moscow.
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With regional elections Sunday from St. Petersburg to Siberia, Russians are entering what promises to be a year of ballots choreographed to ensure a smooth succession and enable President Vladimir Putin to keep a hand on the steering wheel even after he steps down.
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Uzbekistan's president wins 88% of the vote in Sunday's election, which monitors have dismissed as a sham.
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Uzbekistan voted on Sunday in a  election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic  President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate  "revolutions" such as those in Ukraine and Georgia.
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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.