Russia seeks vote ban for opposition challenger
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Liberal former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, a Kremlin foe, should be barred from Russia's presidential election because some of the signatures supporting his candidacy were forged, election officials said on Thursday.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (30/11/04) - Ukrainian opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko has asked the Supreme Court to nullify the 21 November presidential vote and order a third round of elections for 12 December - a call supported by European
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KYIV, Ukraine  - The loser of Ukraine's presidential election will challenge the results in the Supreme Court, his representatives said Thursday, in an apparent attempt to delay winner Viktor Yushchenko from taking office.
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Up to 31 million Russians voted on Sunday in regional elections expected to reinforce the dominance of two big pro-Kremlin parties ahead of nationwide parliamentary polls in December.
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Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasayanov  was nominated on Saturday by his opposition movement to run in  next year&#39;s presidential election and promised to stop the  Kremlin orchestrating the vote in its favor.
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko called for a re-run of the country&#39;s disputed presidential vote, which he claims was marred by fraud.
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Viktor Yanukovych says he will protest runoff re-vote results in the Supreme Court due to allegedly massive vote-rigging. Russia's Duma deputy speaker Vladimir Zhyrinovsky echos, saying Yanukovych must appeal ...
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Ukraine faces political turmoil as partial results in a presidential election put the prime minister backed by Russia in the lead, with his liberal challenger alleging cheating and calling for street protests.
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Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov was barred on Sunday from running for president in a March election, a move he said was taken to block any real challenge to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry on Friday said  Europe's main election watchdog was seeking to sabotage plans  for monitoring the March 2 presidential election.
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Russian prosecutors are investigating  opposition presidential candidate Mikhail Kasyanov on suspicion  of forging signatures in support of his bid, Russian news  agencies reported on Tuesday.
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Supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko kept up their siege of government buildings Sunday after pro-government lawmakers blocked election law changes designed to ensure fair balloting in a rerun of the country&#39;s
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The Russian Olympic Committee is to appeal against several results in the  gymnastics compeititons.
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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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MOSCOW, Jan. 27 -- Former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, a political opponent of President Vladimir Putin, was barred Sunday from running for president after the Central Election Commission said it had found tens of thousands of forged signatures among the 2 million gathered by his campaign to ...
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Russia's Central Election Commission bars opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov from running for president.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- In Russia's lower house of parliament, almost completely dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, Oksana Dmitrieva was part of a very small club of independent deputies, all facing political oblivion come December's parliamentary elections.