Before Elections, Kazakhstan Does a Little Campaigning
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If you're an ex-commie dictator looking to burnish your image, it's probably a good thing to make extra sure that the international community thinks your country's parliamentary elections next month are fairly run.
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Oil-rich Kazakhstan prepared to vote  Sunday in a parliamentary poll criticized by the West and all  but written off as unfair by opposition parties.
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US presidential hopefuls step up appeals for support a day before the nominating contest starts in Iowa.
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The Kazakh president lobbies in Brussels to take the chair of the OSCE, in the face of US and British opposition.
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Oil-rich Kazakhstan prepared to vote Sunday in a parliamentary poll criticized by the West and all but written off as unfair by opposition parties.
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party took an early lead in Parliament elections Sunday, and his daughter's new party was running second, lending credence to suspicions of plans for a family dynasty.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - With the presidential race tightening and little time before the first party nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, candidates are trying to woo voters without trampling on their holidays.
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The election for president in Afghanistan may have brought us one small step closer to worldwide democracy. At least the people there left no doubt that they wanted to vote.
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Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has effectively tried to sideline a powerful regional rival by promoting him to cabinet minister less than a month before presidential elections on Oct. 9. Ismail
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Campaigning is under  way for Afghanistan's presidential poll, amid warnings of insecurity and intimidation.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 6 -- Despite the candidates' colorful posters papering road signs and storefronts, the political atmosphere two weeks before Pakistan's parliamentary elections is as bleak and foreboding as the gray winter sky shrouding much of the country.
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President Vladimir Putin is not subtle. As the presidential campaign came to a head late last month in Ukraine, a country once dominated by Russia's czars and commissars but now free to choose its own way, ...
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VOLGOGRAD, Russia  - Campaigning officially started on Saturday in the Russian presidential election, but Vladimir Putin's chosen successor has said he is too busy working to canvass for votes.
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Despite threats from the Taliban to disrupt the upcoming elections in Afghanistan, campaigns for the first post-Taliban elections began today.
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Senator John McCainâs comeback is impressive, but the contests ahead are less tailored to his political needs.
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The battle between Indiaâs two main political parties has been watched as an indication ahead of national elections.
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The man seems to get his way at home, but President Vladimir Putin's none-too-subtle expressions of support for candidates facing elections abroad have raised a few eyebrows in Russia at least.