Nagorno-Karabakh votes on charter
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People in the former Soviet territory of Nagorno-Karabakh vote in a referendum on a proposed constitution.
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29 August 2004 -- Voters in Russia&#39;s breakaway republic of Chechnya have begun casting ballots for a new president. Seven candidates are vying for the job, including frontrunner Alu Alkhanov, who is backed by the Kremlin.
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ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia  - Chechens voted on Sunday  for a new president in a tense election, but many doubted the  Moscow-backed police officer who was set to win would manage to  stamp out rebellion in the turbulent region.
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Grozny, Russia - The Russian government&#39;s choice for president of war-battered Chechnya easily won an election that came in the wake of last week&#39;s terrorist destruction of two airliners, the ITAR-Tass news agency cited election officials as saying on
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ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia  - Chechens voted Sunday for a  new president in a tense election, but many doubted the  Moscow-backed police officer who was set to win would manage to  stamp out rebellion in the turbulent region.
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Russian news agency&#39;s report the Russian government&#39;s choice has easily won the election for president of Chechnya. ITAR-Tass says the republic&#39;s police chief -- Alu Alkhanov -- received nearly 74 percent of the vote.
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A party supported by Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev won 47 percent of the vote in Sunday's parliamentary election, early official results showed on Monday.
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Former Soviet Georgia on Saturday voted in a presidential election expected to hand its pro-U.S. leader Mikhail Saakashvili a narrow win but opponents said they may take to the streets in protest.
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party claimed victory in parliamentary elections in the central Asian state of Kazakhstan, the party's deputy chairman said.
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Text of report by Kyrgyz AKIpress news agency website  Bishkek, 14 December: President Kurmanbek Bakiyev will answer Kyrgyz citizens' questions in a live phone-in programme of the [first] channel of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
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The U.N. General Assembly, for  the 13th consecutive year, voted overwhelmingly on Thursday  against the 4-decade-old U.S. economic, financial and  commercial embargo against Cuba.
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- Uzbeks voted yesterday in a parliamentary election in which opposition groups were barred from running, sparking criticism from Europe's top election watchdog and a fierce defense from the country's authoritarian president, who insisted that Uzbekistan has no "real" opposition.
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People in the breakaway region of Azerbaijan vote in the hope their bid for independence will be boosted.
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Preliminary results gave victory to Alu  Alkhanov in Chechnya's presidential election Sunday, with the  Moscow-backed policeman winning more than 50 percent of the  vote, the region's acting president was quoted as saying.
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The Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has got 73.48 percent of the ballots in Sunday&#39;s presidential election in Russia&#39;s Chechen republic, assuring his landslide victory, the election commission said Monday.
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Election officials counted ballots Monday after Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region held its first post-Soviet presidential election, a race in which all five candidates vowed to keep the separatist Black Sea resort area independent of Georgia.
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Armenia's parliament has passed the first reading of a bill giving ethnic Armenians the right to hold dual citizenship, a law which could almost quadruple the number of the country's nationals around the world.