OSCE: Uzbek elections unfair
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Uzbekistan&#39;s parliamentary elections have fallen significantly short of international standards, according to Europe&#39;s main human rights body.
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26 December 2004 -- Uzbek President Islam Karimov has lashed out at Europe&#39;s top election watchdog for criticizing today&#39;s parliamentary vote.
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Uzbekistan's president wins 88% of the vote in Sunday's election, which monitors have dismissed as a sham.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - An independent commission will probe claims by all 15 challengers to interim leader Hamid Karzai that Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was marred by incompetence and fraud, a top official said Sunday.    The move to head off the attack on the vote's legitimacy came as workers began the long process of collecting ballots from Saturday's historic election, in which Karzai was a heavy favorite...
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A referendum on constitutional reforms in Kyrgyzstan was flawed, monitoring groups say.
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Turkmenistan's exiled opposition groups said Monday they will not recognize the result of a tightly controlled election to replace late President Saparmurat Niyazov, calling the poll undemocratic. Nearly 100 percent of voters in this ex-Soviet republic cast ballots Sunday in a one-party election without foreign monitors.
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An Uzbek opposition party announced Saturday that it would boycott next month's parliamentary vote, saying the government has failed to embrace democracy and calling on the international community to ignore the election.
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When Vladimir Putin used illegal tactics to engineer the election of his hand-picked subordinate Ahmad Kadyrov as president of Chechnya last October, Western pundits were quick to condemn the election as a farce.
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The only team of Western observers  monitoring Russia's presidential election next month said on  Friday it could not deem the contest fair if all the contenders  were not given an equal chance.
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KIEV, Ukraine Foreign observers say Ukraine&#39;s presidential election does not meet European standards for democracy. They cite state media bias in favor of the prime minister and state interference, including obstruction of opposition activites.
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failed to meet a number of democratic standards, but the observers stopped short of calling for the vote to be invalidated. Western election observers roundly criticized Ukraine&#39;s presidential
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October 4, 2004) Two election campaign observers who recently visited Ukraine expressed concern that a free and fair presidential election may not take place on October 31.
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A mere trickle of voters showed up at polling stations in Uzbekistan&#39;s capital yesterday in an election from which all opposition groups are barred.
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Uzbekistan voted on Sunday in a election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate &quot;revolutions&quot; such as those in Ukraine and Georgia.
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Uzbekistan's parliamentary election on  Sunday fell significantly short of international standards  because it involved only parties loyal to President Islam  Karimov, Europe's main human rights body said on Monday.
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TASHKENT  - Uzbekistan held parliamentary polls that critics have slammed as a farce and which have been overshadowed by recent unrest in the strategic Central Asian country.
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Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's only president since independence from Soviet rule, was heading for certain victory on Monday following a weekend presidential election condemned as a sham by the opposition.