Kremlin favourite wins Chechen election
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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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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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GROZNY, Russia - Chechens battered by five years of war, terrorism and misery voted Sunday for a president in an election that the Russian government portrayed as step toward stability, though critics cried fraud in a ballot that appeared certain to put a Kremlin-favorite in office.    Little more than two hours after polls closed, acting Chechen president Sergei Abramov said preliminary results showed Maj...
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Russian government has welcomed the election of the new Somali president, Col Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mr Aleksandr Yakovenko, said that his government hopes the remaining
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of the ex-Soviet state ahead of a re-run of a poll rigged in favour of the man Moscow backed. to outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, who wanted to hand power to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, the declared winner.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Russian government's choice for president of war-ravaged Chechnya appeared to be the victor Sunday in an election tainted by allegations of fraud and shadowed by last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners.
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Russia&#39;s restive republic of Chechnya will elect a president to replace Akhmad Kadyrov, the pro-Moscow leader killed last May, the BBC reported Sunday.
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Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president, in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to a region wracked by a decade of violence.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses the Chechen president, naming PM Ramzan Kadyrov as his successor.
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Dmitry Medvedev, President Vladimir  Putin's chosen successor, will win 71 percent of the votes in  March's Russian presidential election, state-owned pollster  VTsIOM predicted on Thursday.
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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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A pro-Moscow Chechen leader accused by rights groups of kidnapping and murder earned Russia's highest award Wednesday for "valor and heroism."
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A Kremlin-backed candidate appeared victorious Sunday in Chechnya&#39;s presidential election, which was marred by a blast at a polling station and mounting evidence that the recent crashes
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GROZNY, Russia : Chechens voted in an election expected to crown a Kremlin-backed candidate as the strife-torn republic&#39;s new leader, with thousands of security personnel patrolling its streets against the threat of rebel attacks.
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Alu Alkhanov is likely to win Sunday&#39;s presidential election in Russia&#39;s republic of Chechnya, acting Chechen president Sergei Abramov said.
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The Kremlin front-runner in Russia's  presidential election, Dmitry Medvedev, has the backing of 82  percent of voters with six weeks left before the vote, an  opinion poll published on Wednesday showed.
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Amid high concern over rebel attacks, voters in Russia&#39;s war-torn republic of Chechnya began on Sunday to elect a successor to their former slain president.