Grozny braces for poll only the Kremlin can win
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GROZNY: With strained nerves, omnipresent security and a feeling of dread, war-weary Chechnya braces for a Kremlin-organised poll tomorrow to replace its leader, slain by a bomb three months ago.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is  likely to pick a well-known figure to succeed him rather than  springing a surprise on electors, a Kremlin spokesman said.
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Russia holds regional polls on Sunday viewed as a dress rehearsal for this year's parliamentary vote and a 2008 presidential election, with a liberal party sidelined and the Kremlin expected to tighten its grip on power.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin cast doubt on Tuesday over the viability of holding elections as planned next month in an Iraq under &quot;total occupation&quot;.
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of the ex-Soviet state ahead of a re-run of a poll rigged in favour of the man Moscow backed. to outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, who wanted to hand power to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, the declared winner.
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Shut out of elections and  barred from television screens, Russia's tiny band of die-hard  Kremlin opponents now believe street protests are the only way  to make their voice heard.
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Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president, in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to a region wracked by a decade of violence.
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The Kremlin's candidate has won Chechnya's presidential election but faces an uphill struggle to subdue a resurgence of a separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russian leaders for a decade.
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Once again, the Kremlin-backed candidate will face the opposition leader who favors closer ties with the West. But little else will ever be the same for Ukraine, where a
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GROZNY, Russia - The Russian government's choice for president of war-ravaged Chechnya appeared to be the victor Sunday in an election tainted by charges of fraud and shadowed by last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners.    Little more than two hours after polls closed, acting Chechen president Sergei Abramov said preliminary results showed Maj...
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The Kremlin's strategy is beginning to take shape.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Shut out of elections and barred from television screens, Russia's tiny band of die-hard Kremlin opponents now believe street protests are the only way to make their voice heard.
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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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GROZNY, Russia -- The Russian government's choice for president of Chechnya appeared to win in an election that unfolded yesterday in ghostly emptiness in the capital as many residents fled or stayed indoors to avoid potential violence.
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Nobody in Russia seems to know how scrapping the popular vote in regional elections can help Russia&#39;s war against terrorism. ULYANOVSK, Russia--In the aftermath of the Beslan tragedy, Russians were expecting
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The Kremlin&#39;s preferred candidate was poised for election as head of Russia&#39;s conflict-torn republic of Chechnya last night, after a day of voting marred by at least one death and allegations of improper conduct.
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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.