Putin ally &#39;is winner&#39; of Chechen election
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A pro-Kremlin former policeman has become president of Chechnya, according to partial results last night of an election held after a week of rebel attacks made a mockery of Moscow&#39;s claim to have pacified the republic.
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Russia's war-torn republic of Chechnya votes in a presidential election to replace its slain pro-Moscow leader, amid fears of rebel raids.
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Hamid Karzai was finally declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election today, at the same time as the militants threatening to kill three UN hostages who were in the country to oversee the election pushed back their deadline by 12
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President Vladimir V. Putin has ensured his dominance of the Russian government even after his term ends.
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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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_ The Russian government&#39;s candidate to lead warring Chechnya easily won a presidential election held in the wake of last week&#39;s terrorist destruction of two airliners, election officials said Monday.
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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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29 August 2004 -- Voters in Russia&#39;s breakaway republic of Chechnya have begun casting ballots for a new president. Seven candidates are vying for the job, including frontrunner Alu Alkhanov, who is backed by the Kremlin.
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GROZNY, Russia  - A Moscow-backed policeman was  set to become the new president of rebel Chechnya in a fraught  election Sunday marked by a bomb blast in which only the  attacker was killed.
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GROZNY, Russia - The Russian government's candidate to lead warring Chechnya easily won a presidential election held in the wake of last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners, election officials said Monday. The opposition charged voting was tainted by fraud...
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The Kremlin front-runner in Russia's presidential election, Dmitry Medvedev, has the backing of 82 percent of voters with six weeks left before the vote, an opinion poll published on Wednesday showed.
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The result was no surprise, as the Kremlin backed selection was always expected to win. Alkhanov is a Kremlin replacement for Akhmad Kadyrov who was assassinated in May of this year.
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Russia&#39;s republic of Chechnya elected Alu Alkhanov president in a poll held to replace Akhamad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in May.
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The Kremlin front-runner in Russia's  presidential election, Dmitry Medvedev, has the backing of 82  percent of voters with six weeks left before the vote, an  opinion poll published on Wednesday showed.
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GROZNY, Russia  - The Kremlin candidate won  Chechnya's presidential election but now faces a struggle to  keep the warring region under control and subdue a resurgent  separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia  - Chechens voted on Sunday  for a new president in a tense election, but many doubted the  Moscow-backed police officer who was set to win would manage to  stamp out rebellion in the turbulent region.
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GROZNY, Russia - The Russian government's choice for president of war-battered Chechnya overwhelmingly won an election that opponents claimed was riddled with fraud, news agencies reported Monday, citing preliminary results.    Although the Kremlin portrayed Sunday's election as a step toward stability, terrorism cast a shadow over balloting with the downing of two Russian airliners five days earlier...