Serbian elections focus on keeping Kosovo
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Presidential polls take place Sunday amid intense debate that has pitted hard-line nationalists against more moderate politicians.
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Serbia on Sunday held its first democratically organized local elections since Slobodan Milosevic's ouster in what was expected to be a close race between nationalists loyal to the former president and pro-Western reformists.
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Serbia votes on Sunday in a  presidential election pitting a pro-Western liberal against a  nationalist in a vote seen as a plebiscite on Belgrade's place  in the world as it prepares for the loss of Kosovo.
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Pro-Western President Boris Tadic appeared to be trailing his nationalist rival on Sunday in elections that will shape Serbia's relations with the EU after the expected loss of its Kosovo province.
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Kosovo&#39;s President Ibrahim Rugova declared victory in a general election marred by a Serb boycott and unlikely to change the tense province&#39;s political landscape.
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Serbia's threat to turn its back on EU membership over Kosovo probably has more to do with electioneering than political reality, incoming EU president Slovenia said on Thursday.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (IPS) - Questions relating to Kosovo's future status  will almost certainly be the key area of focus for diplomats  dealing with the Balkans this year.
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Serbia is heading for a showdown next month between a nationalist who leans towards Russia and a liberal favoring the West following the first round of a presidential election.
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Kosova PM, Bajram Rexhepi asked today from the OSCE CiO, Solomon Passy that the elections process out of Kosova, namely in Serbia and Montenegro be well monitored, in order to avoid any abuses at the polling ...
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo counted  votes for a new parliament on Sunday after an election that  exposed Albanian apathy and defiance from the Serb minority in  a province taken over by the United Nations five years ago.
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The United Nations must not  allow snap elections in Serbia to delay a decision on the fate  of Kosovo, the province's ethnic Albanian leaders said on  Wednesday.
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Serbian reformist President Boris Tadic called on ethnic Serbs to vote in the elections in the UN-administered southern province of Kosovo later this month despite appeals for a boycott by the government in Belgrade.
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The beleaguered Serbian minority in Kosovo spurned a legislative election yesterday, heeding claims by hard-line nationalists in Belgrade that voting would
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Kosovo counted votes for a new parliament on Sunday after an election that exposed Albanian apathy and defiance from the Serb minority in a province taken over by the United Nations five years ago.
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BELGRADE, Jan 17 (IPS) - Serbia faces presidential elections Sunday, once  again considered crucial for the country.
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TENSE ELECTIONS: Elections to fill Kosovo's 120-seat assembly on Saturday will test the depth of the province's ethnic divide and international attempts at reconciliation.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo began  voting on Saturday for leaders likely to seek independence from  Serbia at U.N.-brokered talks that may be held next year.