Kremlin-backed candidate wins Chechen presidency
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As expected, the Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has won more than 70 per cent of the vote, and is already outlining his plans for the war-weary region.
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Moscow, Aug 29 (VNA) - Chechens voted on Sunday in an election to choose a candidate as the Russian republic&#39;s new leader, with thousands of security personnel patrolling its streets against the threat of terrorist attacks.
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai is the official winner of last month&#39;s historic Afghan presidential election, the body organizing the vote said on Wednesday.
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A Kremlin-backed candidate appeared victorious Sunday in Chechnya&#39;s presidential election, which was marred by a blast at a polling station and mounting evidence that the recent crashes
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The Kremlin front-runner in Russia's presidential election, Dmitry Medvedev, has the backing of 82 percent of voters with six weeks left before the vote, an opinion poll published on Wednesday showed.
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The Kremlin's candidate has won Chechnya's presidential election but faces an uphill struggle to subdue a resurgence of a separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russian leaders for a decade.
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Voters in Russia&#39;s breakaway region of Chechnya vote Sunday for a regional president to replace Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in a bomb attack last May.
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Grozny, Russia - The Russian government&#39;s choice for president of war-battered Chechnya easily won an election that came in the wake of last week&#39;s terrorist destruction of two airliners, the ITAR-Tass news agency cited election officials as saying on
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Alu Alkhanov has been officially named the new president of Chechnya, and is due to take office in a month.
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A Kremlin-backed career police officer was set to be crowned leader of Chechnya in a vote Sunday that Moscow hopes will show progress towards peace in the embattled
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The Kremlin&#39;s preferred candidate was poised for election as head of Russia&#39;s conflict-torn republic of Chechnya last night, after a day of voting marred by at least one death and allegations of improper conduct.
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A pro-Kremlin former policeman has become president of Chechnya, according to partial results last night of an election held after a week of rebel attacks made a mockery of Moscow&#39;s claim to have pacified the republic.
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GROZNY, Russia -- The Russian government's choice for president of Chechnya appeared to win in an election that unfolded yesterday in ghostly emptiness in the capital as many residents fled or stayed indoors to avoid potential violence.
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Chechnyaâs vice-premier, Ramzan Kadyrov (left), son of the slain president, Akhmad Kadyrov; presidential candidate Alu Alkhanov (second left); the acting Chechen president, Sergei Abramov (second right); and an unidentified man casting their ballots in
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Nagorno-Karabakh's former security chief won the presidency of the Armenian-controlled breakaway region with 85 percent of the vote, the election committee said Friday.
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The Kremlin&#39;s candidate has won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election but faces an uphill struggle to subdue the separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russian leaders for a decade.
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The Russian government's choice for president of war-ravaged Chechnya appeared to be the victor Sunday in an election tainted by charges of fraud and shadowed by last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners.