Observers Criticize Uzbekistan Election
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Europe&#39;s top election watchdog criticized Uzbekistan&#39;s parliamentary election, in which opposition groups were barred from running, saying Monday it fell significantly short of democratic standards.
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Kyrgyz voters went to the polls on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election expected to hand President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party an overwhelming victory though it has been criticized as undemocratic by the opposition.
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Singing, socialising, and scepticism: the Chechen elections received a mixture of responses from the local population.
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The only team of Western observers  monitoring Russia's presidential election next month said on  Friday it could not deem the contest fair if all the contenders  were not given an equal chance.
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ASTANA/ALMATY  - Oil-rich Kazakhstan failed to  meet a pledge to hold its first free and fair election,  international monitors said Monday, casting doubt over an  apparent victory for pro-presidential parties.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Opposition candidates who declared Afghanistan's presidential election invalid Saturday after the wrong kind of ink was used to mark voters' thumbs began to back down yesterday, as international organizations called the ballot mostly fair and some Afghans angrily accused the opponents of interim President Hamid Karzai of overreacting.
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Russia said on Friday the Council of  Europe would send observers to monitor a March presidential  election that Europe's main vote watchdog has already declined  to attend, accusing Moscow of unreasonable restrictions.
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Uzbekistan voted Sunday in a election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate "revolutions" such as those which shook Ukraine and Georgia.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 23 -- With parliamentary elections just weeks away, Russia has still not extended an invitation to Europe's principal election watchdog to monitor the vote. Opposition activists and Western diplomats charge that the authorities here are deliberately stalling to limit the work of an...
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President Ilham Aliev, facing criticism about his treatment of opposition parties and the media, accused his political opponents Thursday of acting against national interests.
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Uzbek voters are casting ballots in a parliamentary poll from which opponents to President Karimov are barred.
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As thousands of election monitors arrive for Sunday's vote, critics complain of Western interference.
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A referendum on constitutional reforms in Kyrgyzstan was flawed, monitoring groups say.
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Opposition leaders alleged Friday that Georgia's local and regional elections were riddled with fraud, but international monitors said the balloting was conducted "with general respect for fundamental freedoms."
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President Islam Karimov, the authoritarian and repressive leader of Uzbekistan, was seeking to extend his rule in a tightly controlled election that featured three other candidates Â all of whom publicly supported his policies.
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Western election observers said on Sunday Georgia's presidential election was broadly fair and Washington urged the opposition, gathering in the capital to protest the result, to show restraint.
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Uzbekistan is to vote in a presidential election widely expected to be won by incumbent Islam Karimov.