Georgia to vote in election seen as democracy test
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili is likely to scrape an election win on Saturday in a vote the West will scrutinize for fairness, but polls differ on whether his victory will be big enough to avoid a second round.
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MACON, Georgia  - With its painful history of slavery and segregation, it is easy to presume how Southern white voters will respond to Barack Obama, who would be the country's first black president, but observers say simple assumptions about politics in the region would be wrong.
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The breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia defiantly voted for a new president on Sunday, injecting further tension into relations between Georgia and its former colonial master Russia.
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Georgia's opposition vowed on Tuesday to press on with street protests and mount a legal challenge to a presidential election which it says incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili rigged in his favor.
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Georgia's presidential election was broadly free and fair but had shortcomings, international observers say.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili on Sunday claimed victory in Saturday's presidential election in the former Soviet state, brushing aside opposition accusations that the poll was rigged.
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On Saturday, Afghans will vote for the first time in a presidential election that could advance the cause of democracy, or just as easily provoke widespread disillusionment.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili  voted on Thursday in local elections which will test his  popularity after a major confrontation with Russia.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- President Mikhail Saakashvili appeared poised for an election victory on Saturday, according to early exit poll results in this former Soviet republic where the former hero of democracy now faces accusations of authoritarian leanings.
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SKOPJE, Macedonia Voters are set go to the polls here Sunday in a referendum that will test the success of a three-year-long peace process to allay tensions between Macedonians and ethnic Albanians in this former Yugoslav republic.
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Barack Obama is set to beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary in Georgia, US media report.
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A weekend referendum that failed to revoke self-rule for minority ethnic Albanians in Macedonia met democratic standards, international monitors said Monday
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People in Kyrgyzstan prepare to vote in a parliamentary election that could end two years of turmoil.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili claimed victory in Saturday's presidential election after an exit poll showed him winning outright, but the opposition cried foul and called for mass protests.
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Georgia marks three years since the Rose Revolution which swept its pro-Western president to power.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili won the former Soviet republic's presidential election outright, an exit poll showed, but the opposition said the vote was rigged and called for mass protests on Sunday.
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Georgians voted on Saturday in a presidential election expected to hand the former Soviet state's leader a narrow win, but opponents accused him of rigging the poll and threatened street protests.