Serbs face stark choice in election
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An ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic and a pro-Western moderate are vying for Serbia's presidency in an election Sunday that could either propel the Balkan nation closer to the European Union or drag it back into isolation.
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Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic won the most votes in the first round of Serbia's presidential election on Sunday but not enough to win outright, exit polls showed, setting up a run-off with pro-Western President Boris Tadic.
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Serbian PM Vojislav Kostunica appears to have suffered a setback in Sunday's local elections.
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Pro-Western president Boris Tadic and hardline challenger Tomislav Nikolic vie in elections on Sunday that will decide who drives Serbia's response to the trauma of the expected breakaway of its Kosovo region.
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Deeply divided Bosnians went to the polls in a general election on Sunday to choose the leaders who will guide their country after a decade of international supervision.
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KIEV : Ukrainians voted for a new president, choosing between a Western-leaning reformer and their pro-Russian prime minister, in a bitterly-fought contest that many fear could provoke turmoil and even violence.
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Pro-Western President Boris Tadic appeared to be trailing his nationalist rival on Sunday in elections that will shape Serbia's relations with the EU after the expected loss of its Kosovo province.
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On the eve of Kosovo's crucial general elections, the province's minority Serbs were not deciding Friday who to vote for - but whether to cast any ballots at all.
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Romanians voted on Sunday in a hard  fought presidential election pitting Prime Minister Adrian  Nastase against outspoken Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu in a  key vote for the Balkan country's European Union accession  path.
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Serbia on Sunday held its first democratically organized local elections since Slobodan Milosevic's ouster in what was expected to be a close race between nationalists loyal to the former president and pro-Western reformists.
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Serbia votes on Sunday in a presidential election pitting a pro-Western liberal against a nationalist in a vote seen as a plebiscite on Belgrade's place in the world as it prepares for the loss of Kosovo.
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Deeply divided Bosnians went to the  polls in a general election on Sunday to choose the leaders who  will guide their country after a decade of international  supervision.
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Boris Tadic re-elected in Serbia's presidential election, beating nationalist Tomislav Nikolic
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Serbs voted on Sunday in the first round of a tight presidential election that could decide the country's future ties with the West after the expected loss of its breakaway Kosovo province.
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Serbia is heading for a showdown next  month between a nationalist who leans towards Russia and a  liberal favoring the West following the first round of a  presidential election.
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"There is a risk of the return of the old guard that led Serbia into conflicts and isolation during the 1990s and led people into turmoil and uncertainty"  By Ellie TzortziBELGRADE  - Pro-Western president Boris Tadic and hardline challenger Tomislav Nikolic vie in elections on Sunday that will decide who drives Serbia's response to the trauma of the expected breakaway of its Kosovo region.Opinion polls ahead of a first-round ballot gave Nikolic a slim lead over Tadic, but not enough for a knockout victory.The winner of the February 3 run-off will be the candidate who can attract third-party votes with promises of better living standards, jobs and the defense of Kosovo, heading for independence with Western backing within months. Read more
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The main candidates in Serbia's presidential election: