Turkmenistan awaits first 'free' elections
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The gas-rich nation gets its first multiparty election on Sunday, with a vote that experts say is stacked.
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Uzbek officials said on Monday a weekend parliamentary election was free and fair, but opposition parties shut out of the poll called it a fraud and said the impoverished nation&#39;s patience was running out.
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Polls opened in Morocco on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists pushing an anti-corruption message that has drawn wide support in the north African kingdom.
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Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is declared the winner of Turkmenistan's presidential elections.
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HELSINKI, Nov 19 (IPS) - To human rights activists Turkmenistan is a âblack  holeâ because little of its human rights violations is known to  the outside world.
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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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Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov pardoned more than a thousand prisoners on Thursday -- the first anniversary of his rule in the gas-producing Caspian nation.
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Turkmenistan's new president has called for the abolition of state-funded concerts and dances in his honor during tours of the country, state media reported Saturday.
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At last the much-discussed first-everAfghan presidential elections in the post-Taliban nation were held Saturday amid hopes and fears as the anti-government militias fired several
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The Uzbek government says it has begun official preparations for presidential elections in late December.
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Voters in Taiwan are set to elect MPs in a contest seen as a barometer for March's presidential election.
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Iraqi officials say Jan. 30 has been set as the new date for the war-torn country&#39;s first national elections since a US-led military coalition toppled Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime.
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Turkmenistan celebrating its independence holiday with a huge parade in honour of President Niyazov.
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Voters are set to elect a new parliament Saturday for the first time since the Baltic nation settled into a new era of stability by joining the European Union and NATO in 2004.Comment
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Multiple construction plans were announced at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan. A new phase in the implementation of a large-scale construction program in Turkmenistan was announced by President Saparmurat Niyazov.
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Uzbeks voted on Sunday in an election widely expected to extend President Islam Karimov's 18-year rule and condemned by the opposition and human rights activists as a Soviet-style one-man contest.
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Voters in the Gulf state of Bahrain go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new parliament.