Latvia Nixes Voting Rights for Russians
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Lawmakers on Thursday rejected a proposal to let nearly 500,000 ethnic Russians vote in local elections, despite giving the same right to citizens of EU countries who live in the Baltic state.
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Russia's top election authority on   Wednesday threw out a call for a people's poll that would clear   the way for President Vladimir Putin to stay on in power,   making it more likely he will step down as he plans in 2008.
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A top election watchdog rejects Russian concessions for monitoring of the presidential election.
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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.
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Europe's top elections watchdog Thursday announced it would boycott Russia's presidential poll next month because of restrictions imposed by Moscow on its monitors.
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By Jorgen JohanssonRIGA - Latvia's 1.4 million voters began streaming into voting booths across the tiny Baltic state on Saturday in an election expected to return the pro-EU government.Analysts said driving ...Comment
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Europe's main election watchdog says it will boycott Russia's presidential election on 2 March.
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Russia's chief election body on Wednesday dismissed a petition aimed at allowing President Vladimir Putin to run for a third term.
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Russia has begun an effort to curtail the activities of election observers in the states of the former Soviet Union.
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Latvia's 1.4 million voters, undaunted by bleak weather, continued streaming into voting booths across the tiny Baltic state on Saturday afternoon in an election expected to return the pro-EU centre-right government.
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Estonia decided Thursday it will not allow a German-Russian consortium to conduct a survey of its exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea for a planned underwater gas pipeline.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 7 -- Russia's relations with international bodies that monitor democratic norms and human rights soured further Thursday when Europe's leading election watchdog organization confirmed that it would not monitor the upcoming presidential vote, citing "severe restrictions" on its planned...
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MOSCOW, July 14 -- Russia on Saturday formally suspended its participation in a conventional arms treaty dating from the last years of the Cold War that limits NATO and Russian military deployments in Europe.
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Russia's election authorities on Sunday barred former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, a sharp critic of the Kremlin, from running in a March presidential election against President Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate.
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Euro MPs reject a bid by MEPs from Nordic and Baltic states to tighten the legal definition of vodka.
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On Sunday voters rejected government-backed plans to simplify naturalisation procedures for second-generation foreigners. They also turned down a proposal to grant children born in Switzerland to foreign parents the automatic right to a Swiss passport.
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Students protesting in the Old Riga last week. They are holding the sign that reads: We are not Russian Latvians; we are Latvian Russians.The law that came into effect in September stipulates that at least 60 ...