Pro-Western President Wins Serbia Vote
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BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's pro-Western president narrowly defeated an ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in a closely contested election Sunday only days before an expected declaration of independence by the breakaway Kosovo province.
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Serbia's pro-Western president Boris  Tadic has won re-election in a contest with nationalist  Tomislav Nikolic, but his narrow victory may only have set up a  fresh struggle over the country's future course.
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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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Pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko won Ukraine's presidential runoff election, comfortably beating pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, an independent exit poll showed.
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Croatians overwhelmingly gave  pro-Western President Stjepan Mesic a second term in an  election run-off, bolstering efforts to bring the former  Yugoslav republic to European Union membership, results showed  Monday.
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Serbia's president accepts the result of a referendum in which Montenegrins narrowly backed breaking with Serbia.
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The European Union has welcomed the re-election of Serbia's pro-Western president.  Will it get Serbia an early EU entry?
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KYIV-Ukraine's Election Commission declared Western-leaning reformer Viktor Yushchenko the winner of the presidential vote yesterday, putting the nation on the verge of resolving its protracted election.
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Croatia's President Stipe Mesic, who is credited for moving this ex-Yugoslav country closer to the West, overwhelmingly won a second term on Sunday.
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Serbia backs a major energy deal that further boosts Russian dominance of Europe's gas supply.
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Reaction to the victory of Tomislav Nikolic, an extreme nationalist, in the first leg of the Serbian presidential election
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Pro-Western Serbian President Boris Tadic faces nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic on Sunday in an election that will decide Serbia's attitude to the West after the imminent loss of breakaway Kosovo province.
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Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic won the first round of Serbia's presidential election on Sunday, setting up a run-off with the pro-Western incumbent that will shape ties with the EU after the expected loss of Kosovo.
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Nationalist challenger Tomislav  Nikolic conceded defeat in Serbia's presidential election on  Sunday, congratulating pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic on his  victory.
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Serbs went to the polls in local elections on Sunday in the first test of voter opinion since they chose pro-Western President Boris Tadic in June.
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A pro-Western reformist and a hard-line nationalist loyal to Slobodan Milosevic led the race for Belgrade mayor Sunday, preliminary results showed.
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Hardliner Tomislav Nikolic won the  first round of Serbia's presidential vote on Sunday, setting up  a second-round contest that will shape Serbian ties with the  West after the expected loss of Kosovo.