Belarusians vote to scrap term limits
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Opposition leaders accused the government of arresting exit-poll takers and turning away election observers during voting Sunday in a referendum on whether to change this ex-Soviet republic's constitution and ...
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Belarusians has overwhelmingly approved a referendum on scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission announced, allowing the authoritarian leader of this ex-Soviet republic to seek a new term in 2006.
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Orthodox nuns read ballots going to vote inside a convent in the village of Damashany, 25 km (19 miles) east of Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday he won a mandate from voters to stay in power in a weekend referendum scrapping presidential term limits, but foreign observers said the vote process was marred by violations and thousands of people protested the outcome.
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Voters in Belarus appear to have approved a referendum that will scrap term limits and allow the country&#39;s authoritarian leader to seek a third term in office.
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Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko has called the Belarus Democracy Act passed by U.S. Congress stupid pressure on the CIS state.
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko will have a right to run at forthcoming presidential election in the country. This is the outcome of the national referendum, which took place in Belarus on October 17th.
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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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MINSK. Oct 18 (Interfax-West) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has expressed his pleasure over the results of the parliamentary elections and a constitutional referendum held on Sunday.
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Voters in Belarus approved constitutional changes that will allow President Alexander Lukashenko to seek a third term, Agence France-Presse reported, citing preliminary results.
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BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko lashed out at critics in the West yesterday after winning a referendum to allow him to seek a third term in office.
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MINSK, Belarus  - The president of Belarus,  confident of victory in a referendum Sunday to extend his rule,  promised to serve his people better if they voted "yes" and  told the West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko, accused in the west of flouting democratic norms,  won overwhelming approval in a referendum to run for a third  term in office, the top election official said Monday.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the west of flouting democratic norms, has won overwhelming approval in a referendum to run for a third term in office, the top election official says.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, through Sunday's highly dubious constitutional referendum, has predictably succeeded in removing the last impediment to his absolute and unlimited rule -- scrapping ...
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The Belarus electoral commission announced on Sunday that the referendum had approved the lifting of the constitutional ban on a third consecutive term for President Lukashenko.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko, viewed in the West as Europe's last hard-line  leader, got the go-ahead on Monday to run for another term  while the country's beleaguered opposition was shut out of  parliament.