Ex-Soviet Georgia votes in democracy test election
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Georgians voted on Saturday in a presidential election expected to hand the former Soviet state's leader a narrow win, but opponents accused him of rigging the poll and threatened street protests.
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KIEV: Voting began Sunday in Ukraine&#39;s presidential elections, seen as a critical test for the future of democratic development in the former Soviet state, a foreign news agency reported.
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Albanians have cast ballots in municipal elections seen as a gauge of democratic headway made in the former communist bastion as it bids for eventual European Union and NATO membership.
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MOSCOW, Jan 14 (IPS) - Leading opposition candidate Levan Gachechiladze  has accused the Georgian government of widespread fraud in the  last presidential election after the Central Election Commission  released the final results declaring Mikheil Saakashvikli winner  and new president.
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A local woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the city of Tashlik. Voters in Transdnestr took part in a referendum on whether to stick to the region's pro-Moscow separatist course or accept being part ...
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TELAVI, Georgia -- Before his helicopter touches down, Mikheil Saakashvili already has his hand on the door handle. A bodyguard leans forward but can't restrain him long; within seconds, Misha, as Georgia's former president and now campaigning candidate is informally known, has jumped out, ducked...
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Georgia's presidential election was broadly free and fair but had shortcomings, international observers say.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili won the former Soviet republic's presidential election outright, an exit poll showed, but the opposition said the vote was rigged and called for mass protests on Sunday.
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While Ukrainians are heading to the polls, citizens of the fellow ex-Soviet republic of Uzbekistan are also voting, in this case for parliament.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 13 -- Tens of thousands of Georgians on Sunday protested the election victory of U.S.-allied President Mikheil Saakashvili, claiming fraud and demanding a recount.
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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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Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili narrowly won re-election over the weekend according to official results, but opposition candidates contested the outcome.
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Official results confirm Mikhail Saakashvili's victory in presidential elections in Georgia last week.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili celebrated victory on Monday in a presidential election which his opponents branded as rigged but which won broad support in the West.
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Tuesday in Georgia's capital, pressing for a presidential runoff but celebrating an agreement giving the opposition more control over the main state-funded television station.
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TIRASPOL, Moldova  - Ex-Soviet Moldova's   separatist Dnestr region voted in a referendum on Sunday on   whether to press forward with their self-styled independence   declared 16 years ago and eventually join Russia.
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GABORONE : Voters went to the polls in diamond-rich Botswana in elections that are expected to hand victory to the party in power since independence in 1966 in one of Africa&#39;s most stable countries.