Think tank blasts Turkmen election
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An international think tank urged the new leadership of gas-rich Turkmenistan on Tuesday to renounce former dictator Saparmurat Niyazov's iron-fisted rule, and described a vote for his successor as a "blatantly falsified election."
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ASHGABAT. Feb 18 (Interfax) - Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has said work will continue to switch ministries and government agencies of the financial-economic bloc to one computer network.
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Polling stations were nearly empty early on election day Sunday in the capital of Turkmenistan, a tightly controlled former Soviet republic. Election officials said they may carry ballot boxes door-to-door to seek votes.
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Opponents of Russian President Vladimir  Putin's chosen successor Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday his  refusal to hold television debates ahead of a March 2 election  showed the ballot was a farce.
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The Islamic-inspired party took nearly half of the total vote in national elections in a stinging rebuke to Turkeyâs old guard.
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An international think-tank urged Britain&#39;s incoming prime minister Gordon Brown to take a new approach over Afghanistan to prevent a resurgence of the hardline Taliban.
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- Uzbeks voted yesterday in a parliamentary election in which opposition groups were barred from running, sparking criticism from Europe's top election watchdog and a fierce defense from the country's authoritarian president, who insisted that Uzbekistan has no "real" opposition.
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Foreign monitors accuse Uzbekistan of holding a presidential election without any genuine choice.
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Oil-rich Kazakhstan voted on Sunday in a  parliamentary poll criticized by the West and all but written  off as unfair by opposition parties.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry on Friday said  Europe's main election watchdog was seeking to sabotage plans  for monitoring the March 2 presidential election.
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A glance at Turkmenistan, which voted Sunday to replace the late longtime autocratic President Saparmurat Niyazov:
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Claiming that their government simply doesn't have the knowledge to do it right, Germany's venerable Chaos Computer Club has called for an injunction barring their government from deploying e-voting machines in an election slated for late January.
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Turkmenistan was choosing a new president in its first contested election on Sunday but the outcome was beyond doubt and diplomats say they expect at best only gradual change in the Central Asian state.
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Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader has scolded national television presenters for wearing too much makeup and told them to look natural.
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A charity watchdog criticized fiery British lawmaker George Galloway Friday, saying a campaign he set up to fight sanctions against Iraq received money diverted by Saddam Hussein.
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Uzbeks voted in a parliamentary election Sunday in which opposition groups were barred from running, sparking criticism from Europe&#39;s top election watchdog and a fierce defence from the country&#39;s authoritarian president, who
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A key report on last year's clashes in Hungary criticises politicians - especially the main opposition party.