Election commission: pro-Kremlin PM is winner of presidential ...
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Election officials declared Wednesday that Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych won Ukraine&#39;s bitterly disputed presidential runoff balloting, sharpening a crisis sparked by the opposition candidate&#39;s allegations that the
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After a fraudulent election, the Russian-oriented candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, was declared the winner.
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Dmitry Medvedev, President Vladimir  Putin's chosen successor, will win 71 percent of the votes in  March's Russian presidential election, state-owned pollster  VTsIOM predicted on Thursday.
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Russia&#39;s parliament overwhelmingly  confirmed Viktor Zubkov as prime minister on Friday, two days  after President Vladimir Putin surprised observers by  nominating the virtually-unknown official.
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of the ex-Soviet state ahead of a re-run of a poll rigged in favour of the man Moscow backed. to outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, who wanted to hand power to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, the declared winner.
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Opposition candidate Sergei Bagapsh said Monday that the election commission in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region has declared him the winner of the province's disputed presidential election.
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In an action that many Western countries opposed, Ukraine&#39;s Central Election Commission today declared Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich the winner in a presidential election denounced by the opposition as marked by mass fraud.
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_ THE ISSUE: Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's victory in the Nov. 21 presidential runoff has been challenged as fraudulent.
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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman won  Chechnya's presidential election Sunday, according to early  results from a tense poll marked by a bomb blast in which only  the attacker was killed.
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Pro-Western opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko declared himself the winner of Ukraine&#39;s presidential election early today after exit polls and partial results from Sunday&#39;s
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Chechnya has elected Moscow&#39;s clear favorite, Alu Alkhanov, as president, with nearly 74 percent of the vote, the BBC reported Monday.
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Vote counts indicated that Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich had won but observers alleged systemic voting abuses.
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_ The Russian government&#39;s candidate to lead warring Chechnya easily won a presidential election held in the wake of last week&#39;s terrorist destruction of two airliners, election officials said Monday.
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Interim President Hamid Karzai has won Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, the spokesman for the election commission said.
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Ukraine confirmed Western-oriented Viktor Yushchenko as winner of the presidential election on Monday, paving the way for an historic change of power that his opponent denounced as "a revolution."
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Ukraine&#39;s prime minister won the country&#39;s bitterly fought presidential runoff, elections officials said Monday. But election observers said the vote did not meet international standards and the opposition alleged fraud.
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The Russian government's choice for president of war-ravaged Chechnya appeared to be the victor Sunday in an election tainted by charges of fraud and shadowed by last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners.