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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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili on Sunday claimed victory in Saturday's presidential election in the former Soviet state, brushing aside opposition accusations that the poll was rigged.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili was heading for a landslide presidential election victory, early results showed on Sunday, but the opposition said the vote was rigged and vowed street protests.
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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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SUKHUMI, Georgia  - The breakaway Georgian region  of Abkhazia defiantly voted for a new president on Sunday,  injecting further tension into relations between Georgia and  its former colonial master Russia.
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Voters in Slovenia, Serbia and Georgia&#39;s breakaway republic of Abkhazia cast ballots Sunday in elections for lawmakers and government leaders.
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President Islam Karimov, the former communist boss who has ruled this former Soviet nation since independence, seems certain of winning re-election Sunday in a ballot his foes say will be little more than political theater.
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President Mikhail Saakashvili headed for victory in Saturday's election, according to an exit poll in this former Soviet republic where he is fighting accusations of authoritarian tendencies four years after coming to power as a champion of democracy.
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Congolese voted Sunday in their first democratic election in more than four decades, many hoping for an end to years of fighting and corrupt rule that have devastated the mineral-rich nation in the heart of Africa.
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Official results confirm Mikhail Saakashvili's victory in presidential elections in Georgia last week.
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Abkhazians are taking their democratic rights seriously as they vote to replace the man who led their fight for independence from Georgia.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6 -- Supporters of Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili began celebrating late Saturday as preliminary exit polls indicated he would narrowly avoid a runoff in this former Soviet republic's presidential election.
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People in Kyrgyzstan prepare to vote in a parliamentary election that could end two years of turmoil.
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The breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia voted for its first new leader in a decade, amid simmering tension between the separatist regime here and the central government in Tbilisi.
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Tens of thousands of opposition supporters rallied Sunday in the Georgian capital to protest what they denounced as massive vote fraud that helped U.S.-allied Mikhail Saakashvili win a second presidential term.
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MOSCOW (CP) - War clouds are gathering over the former Soviet Caucasus region as Georgia's U.S.-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili moves to re-unite his fractured nation by pressuring two separatist provinces that have close ties to Russia.
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Thousands of Georgian opposition protesters denounced as fraudulent a presidential election that swept Mikhail Saakashvili to a second term, threatening instability in the former Soviet republic once considered a beacon of reform