Kazakh Leader Tells Voters Choose 'Stability'
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ALMATY/ASTANA  - President Nursultan Nazarbayev  warned oil-rich Kazakhstan against voting for his opponents'  "empty promises" of riches in a poll on Sunday already  criticized in the West for bias against the opposition.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush heaped praise yesterday on the president of Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country important to the United States as an oil supplier and war-on-terror ally, but which has a political system that stifles dissent.
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Early results suggest the party of Kazakh President Nazarbayev will win victory in parliamentary elections.
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There's no such thing as bad publicity,  the president of Kazakhstan joked on Tuesday as he welcomed the  attention lavished on his country by the comedy film "Borat."
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Facing a relentless tide of opposition protests, embattled President Leonid Kuchma said Monday that a new election might be the only way out of a spiraling crisis that threatens to break up this former Soviet republic between the pro-Russia east and the
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Facing a relentless tide of opposition protests, embattled President Leonid Kuchma said Monday that a new election might be the only way out of a spiraling crisis that
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The president of Belarus, confident of victory in a referendum Sunday to extend his rule, promised to serve his people better if they voted "yes" and told the West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party looked headed for an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections in this strategically important Central Asian nation, the election authority said Monday based on early results.
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Afghanistan&#39;s president, Hamid Karzai, says presidential elections on Saturday will decide the fate of the war-shattered country for centuries.
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President Vladimir Putin urged the government Thursday to work hard before the March presidential election to ensure a smooth transition if he takes over as prime minister.
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The party of Kazakhstan&#39;s President Nursultan Nazarbayev is leading in parliamentary elections, according to early results, and his daughter&#39;s party is in second place, the Associated Press reported.
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The Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has got 73.48 percent of the ballots in Sunday&#39;s presidential election in Russia&#39;s Chechen republic, assuring his landslide victory, the election commission said Monday.
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President Pervez Musharraf pledged Thursday that next week's elections would be free, fair and held on time, after political opponents accused him of planning to rig the vote so he could maintain his grip on power.
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Russia's presidential front-runner Dmitry Medvedev promised stability and continuity on Tuesday in his first big policy speech since President Vladimir Putin backed him to be the next Kremlin leader.
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ISLAMABAD, Sept 16: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s &#39;expected&#39; decision to retain his army post beyond Dec 31 will be in the interest of the country&#39;s stability and solidarity.
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PESHAWAR, Oct 18: Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued to maintain his lead over his rival candidates in the presidential elections.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has urged the country's political forces to abandon attempts to destabilize the country in the run-up to the October 31 presidential elections.