Poland bans OSCE poll observers
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Warsaw rejects poll monitors from Europe's main security watchdog, saying Poland is a solid democracy.
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European election observers cited severe restrictions imposed on their work by the Russian government.
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Mobile phones and cameras will be banned from polling booths in Bulgaria's local elections on Sunday following reports of vote-buying scams.
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Poland formally told its European Union partners it could not accept a reformed voting system enshrined in the defunct EU constitution, raising the prospect of a crisis at a crucial summit later this week.
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Poland's parliament backs removing collaborators with the old communist secret services from public life.
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Poland's interior minister said on Saturday he has suspended an agreement between a Polish and a Belarusian police academy because of recent police violence against protesters in Belarus.
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The Russian military will be banned from monitoring a Czech radar site proposed by Washington as part of its global missile defense system, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Thursday.
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The United States will send 100 observers to Ukraine for the Dec. 26 make-up election, mandated after the nation&#39;s top court ruled this week that the Nov. 21 election was illegitimate.
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The European Union (EU) says it plans to plunge Belarus further into isolation by banning officials responsible for "fraudulent elections" and violence against opposition supporters from its territory.
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The Security Council voted Friday to immediately close down the U.N. inspection bodies that played a pivotal role in monitoring Iraq's unconventional weapons programs under Saddam Hussein.
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Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk has excluded the use of force in the presidential election.
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Russia said on Friday the Council of Europe would send observers to monitor a March presidential election that Europe's main vote watchdog has already declined to attend, accusing Moscow of unreasonable restrictions.
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Poles vote on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election that could cost the ruling Kaczynski twins their hold on government in the European Union's biggest former communist country.
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Russia said on Friday the Council of  Europe would send observers to monitor a March presidential  election that Europe's main vote watchdog has already declined  to attend, accusing Moscow of unreasonable restrictions.
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Zimbabwe's government will prohibit African observers from monitoring national parliamentary elections next year if they have close links with Western countries, an official said Friday.
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Europe's main election watchdog says it will boycott Russia's presidential election on 2 March.
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In its interim report, the OSCE mission observing the presidential election in Ukraine has concluded that a number of state officials are openinly supporting pro-government candidate Premier Viktor Yanukovych.