Monitors to boycott Russian election
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Russia and the EU were today embroiled in another major row after the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) said that it would not monitor next month's presidential elections in Russia because of "severe restrictions" placed on it by Moscow.
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Foreign monitors accuse Uzbekistan of holding a presidential election without any genuine choice.
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Europe's election watchdog says Russia's curbs make it impossible for the body to monitor presidential polls.
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Russia's Central Election Commission said on Thursday it had grounds to disqualify opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov from running in a presidential election on March 2.
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A top election watchdog rejects Russian concessions for monitoring of the presidential election.
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Hamid Karzai announced a boycott, saying a system to prevent illegal multiple voting had failed. The JEMB said on Monday it was investigating the complaints.
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Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasayanov  was nominated on Saturday by his opposition movement to run in  next year&#39;s presidential election and promised to stop the  Kremlin orchestrating the vote in its favor.
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The boycott by some opposition parties of yesterday's rallies in Moscow disappoints several Russian papers.
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The United States on Thursday criticized Russian proposals that would curtail the activities of international election monitors.
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Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasayanov was nominated on Saturday by his opposition movement to run in next year's presidential election and promised to stop the Kremlin orchestrating the vote in its favor.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry accused Europe's main security organization Friday of playing political games in the dispute over election monitors.
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Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov should be barred from Russia's presidential election, officials said on Thursday, a move likely to fuel criticism that authorities brook little real opposition.
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Serbia's election commission has turned down a request by the British and U.S. embassies to let some of their staff monitor the presidential election next weekend, officials said on Friday.
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Russia on Tuesday offered to ease restrictions imposed on Europe's main election watchdog by giving its monitors a week longer to observe the March 2 presidential poll, Russian news agencies said.
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Russia's Central Election Commission  said on Thursday it had grounds to disqualify opposition  candidate Mikhail Kasyanov from running in a presidential  election on March 2.
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European election observers have denounced last weekend&#39;s national elections in Ukraine as a democratic step backwards, Voice of America reported Tuesday.
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Russian opposition challenger Mikhail Kasyanov should be disqualified from a March 2 presidential vote because of forged registration documents, the secretary of the Central Election Commission said on Thursday.