Kremlin-Backed Opposition Party Foundering as Elections Loom
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MOSCOW, Oct. 25 -- Created by the Kremlin just last year and anticipating a bright future, the political party Fair Russia was designed to be the junior partner in a "two-party system" in which everyone pledges fealty to President Vladimir Putin. But with Dec. 2 parliamentary elections imminent, the...
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The Kremlin candidate won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election but now faces a struggle to keep the warring region under control and subdue a resurgent separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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Ukraine&#039;s pro-Russian parties formed a new governing coalition in a stunning move that promises to slow the pro-Western course taken by the ex-Soviet nation after the &amp;quot;orange revolution.&amp;quot;
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A Sept. 12 meeting, called to unite the disparate wings of the ethnic Russian community at a time of general discontent, nearly collapsed when members of one political party were accused of trying to monopolize ...
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The party led by Ukraine's pro-Western president, Viktor Yushchenko, announced it would fight in opposition to the new pro-Russian government, signalling a new round of political confrontation between the opposing camps of the 2004 &quot;orange revolution.&quot;
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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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Japanâs main opposition party pressed for a general election after Prime Minister Shinzo Abeâs government became embroiled in a fresh round of scandals.
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An opposition party led by an ethnic Russian businessman appears headed for victory in Sunday&#39;s Lithuanian parliamentary election.
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Russia has apparently become the central theme of the presidential election in Ukraine.
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The upstart party of a Russian-born tycoon and right-wing opposition parties were neck-and-neck in Lithuania's parliamentary elections, almost complete results showed.
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Many opposition supporters prepared to leave Kiev Thursday, following parliament&#39;s adoption of electoral and constitutional changes, but others pledged to keep up
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A party that supports the former prime minister who won the parliamentary election appeared to be ahead of one backed by the generals who ousted him in a coup.
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Lithuania&#39;s second round of general elections got under way on Sunday, with a recent-formed party threatening to force its way into government.
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Russia's fragmented opposition marshalled its thin ranks against President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, but a modest turnout at a Moscow rally -- dwarfed by the police presence -- only underscored his grip on power.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Once again the Kremlin-backed candidate will face the opposition leader who favours closer ties with the West. But little else will ever be the same for Ukraine, where a sea of protesters decked in opposition orange have reshaped the political landscape.
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Ukraine's leap toward democracy has inspired opposition leaders in formerly Soviet Central Asia and alarmed its long-ruling autocrats, but analysts say the region isn't ready for a democratic revolution.
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Kazak politicians and opposition activists alike are nervously watching preparations for elections in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, looking for any sign of the sort of bloodless revolutions that have recently swept ...