Serb nationalist wins first-round president vote
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Hardliner Tomislav Nikolic won the first round of Serbia's presidential vote on Sunday, setting up a second-round contest that will shape Serbian ties with the West after the expected 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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Bosnia's ruling Croat, Muslim and Serb nationalists, who led the Balkans country throughout its 1992-95 inter-ethnic war, confirmed their dominance in local elections over the weekend, first partial results showed.
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Serbia's pro-Western president won a closely contested election Sunday, edging an ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic days before an expected declaration of independence by the breakaway Kosovo province.
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BELGRADE, Feb 4 (IPS) - Serbian voters have decided, in the tightest  run-off so far, that their president for the next five years  remains incumbent Boris Tadic, seen as the leader who can take  the biggest nation in the Balkans closer to the EU.
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Serbs voted on Sunday in the first round of a tight presidential election that could decide the country's future ties with the West after the expected loss of its breakaway Kosovo province.
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Bosnian Serbs appear to have voted for the continuing division of their country in national elections.
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The people of Croatia vote for a  new president in a second and final round of voting.
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SARAJEVO : Bosnia&#39;s ruling Croat, Muslim and Serb nationalists, who led the Balkans country throughout its 1992-95 inter-ethnic war, confirmed their dominance in local elections over the weekend, first partial results showed.
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Montenegrins vote in the country's first post-independence poll, in a test for PM Milo Djukanovic.
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Serbia's pro-Western president Boris  Tadic has won re-election in a contest with nationalist  Tomislav Nikolic, but his narrow victory may only have set up a  fresh struggle over the country's future course.
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The Radical Party acting leader Nikolic got 39 percent of the vote in presidential polls Sunday. He and pro-European moderate Tadic will square off in Round 2 of voting on Feb. 3.
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"There is a risk of the return of the old guard that led Serbia into conflicts and isolation during the 1990s and led people into turmoil and uncertainty"  By Ellie TzortziBELGRADE  - Pro-Western president Boris Tadic and hardline challenger Tomislav Nikolic vie in elections on Sunday that will decide who drives Serbia's response to the trauma of the expected breakaway of its Kosovo region.Opinion polls ahead of a first-round ballot gave Nikolic a slim lead over Tadic, but not enough for a knockout victory.The winner of the February 3 run-off will be the candidate who can attract third-party votes with promises of better living standards, jobs and the defense of Kosovo, heading for independence with Western backing within months. Read more
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BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's pro-Western president narrowly defeated an ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in a closely contested election Sunday only days before an expected declaration of independence by the breakaway 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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A strong first round for nationalist Tomislav Nikolic in the Serbian election surprises the media.
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Serbia's presidential election paves way for response to Kosovo's declaration of independence