Kyrgyz leader heads for poll win
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Kyrgyz leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev looks set for a landslide victory in elections, early results show.
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Hamid Karzai nears victory in Afghanistan's presidential election with 60% of votes halfway through the count.
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Amid high concern over rebel attacks, voters in Russia&#39;s war-torn republic of Chechnya began on Sunday to elect a successor to their former slain president.
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The Armenian-controlled breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh was holding a presidential election Thursday amid a rumbling dispute with Azerbaijan over the mountainous enclave's unrecognized independence.
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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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Chechnya&#39;s new leader vowed on Monday to rebuild the shattered region and crush extremists after winning an election condemned by a rights group as a show stage-managed by Moscow.
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Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's only president since independence from Soviet rule, was heading for victory on Monday following a weekend presidential election criticized as undemocratic by Western observers.
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With almost half the votes counted in Afghanistan&#39;s election Wednesday, Karzai looked set to win a clear victory with 61.4 percent of the votes already under his belt.
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A prominent Kyrgyz democracy campaigner has gone missing days before he was due to leave the Central Asian republic to monitor Ukraine's presidential election, Human Rights Watch says.
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Alu Alkhanov is likely to win Sunday&#39;s presidential election in Russia&#39;s republic of Chechnya, acting Chechen president Sergei Abramov said.
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Kyrgyz leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev dissolved parliament on Monday to tighten his grip on the chamber after a constitutional referendum extended his authority in the impoverished Central Asian state.
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Official figures show that Hamid Karzai is on the way to winning Afghanistan's first presidential elections.
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Supporters of Afghan President Hamid Karzai say he is on course to win the presidential elections, with about one-quarter of the votes counted.
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The Kremlin candidate has won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election with 73.48 per cent of the vote, according to preliminary results.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has won more than half of the vote and is likely to be officially declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s election this week.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai has clinched a majority of the votes in Afghanistanâs first presidential election under near-complete results today, leaving him all but certain of becoming the war-torn nationâs first democratically-elected leader.
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Kazak politicians and opposition activists alike are nervously watching preparations for elections in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, looking for any sign of the sort of bloodless revolutions that have recently swept ...