Belarus' Lukashenko Announces Referendum
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko &#151; critized by Western nations for his autocratic rule &#151; announced a referendum next month asking voters to remove term limits, a change that would allow him to seek five more years in office.
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Belarusians' decision whether to scrap presidential term limits in a referendum this weekend could determine if this East European nation will remain an isolated Soviet-style throwback or slowly turn toward the ...
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Belarus has voted to allow its president, Alexander Lukashenko, the right to run for a third term in office, the top election official said this morning.
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Belarusians go to the polls on Sunday to vote on letting Alexander Lukashenko  stand for president again.
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Police in Minsk broke up a 1,000-strong crowd demonstrating against a referendum that approved allowing Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko to stay in power for another term, a Reuters witness said.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko, viewed in the West as Europe's last hard-line  leader, got the go-ahead on Monday to run for another term  while the country's beleaguered opposition was shut out of  parliament.
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Voters in Belarus approved constitutional changes that will allow President Alexander Lukashenko to seek a third term, Agence France-Presse reported, citing preliminary results.
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Pavel Sheremet, head of special projects at Russia's Channel One television station, was in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to cover Sunday's referendum on the presidential ambitions of Mr Lukashenko - described ...
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko thinks that Belarus will receive enough natural gas from Russia.
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BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko lashed out at critics in the West yesterday after winning a referendum to allow him to seek a third term in office.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the west of flouting democratic norms, won overwhelming approval in a referendum to run for a third term in office, the top election official said Monday.
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Belarusians has overwhelmingly approved a referendum on scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission announced, allowing the authoritarian leader of this ex-Soviet republic to seek a new term in 2006.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday he won a mandate from voters to stay in power in a weekend referendum scrapping presidential term limits, but foreign observers said the vote process was ...
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Belarus awaited the outcome of a  referendum on Monday to determine whether President Alexander  Lukashenko, accused in the West of running roughshod over human  rights, can run for office for a third time.
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MINSK, Belarus Belarussians approved a constitutional referendum that would allow their country&#39;s authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, to seek unlimited terms in office, according to early returns Monday.
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Belarus awaited the outcome of a referendum on Monday to determine whether President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the West of running roughshod over human rights, can run for office for a third time.
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Belarusians voted Sunday in a referendum on whether to change this ex-Soviet republic's constitution and allow authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to run for a third term.