Uzbek leader scorns &quot;revolutions&quot; in election
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democracy. Critics say it is a travesty of free choice in a country where thousands of dissidents are in jail and human rights abuses are said to.
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The pro-Western candidate in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election on Sunday has warned of mass demonstrations if the result is rigged.
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Islam Karimov is sworn in for a seven-year term as President of Uzbekistan, following elections in December
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Kyrgyzstan s government has been rattled by recent events in Ukraine, where mass protests by the opposition forced a re-run of a presidential election they said was rigged.
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Uzbeks head to the polls on Sunday in an election certain to extend President Islam Karimov's long rule and criticized by the opposition and human rights activists as a Soviet-style contest.
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Foreign monitors accuse Uzbekistan of holding a presidential election without any genuine choice.
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Yemen's president on Sunday acknowledged "mistakes" in elections which gave him more than 77 percent of the vote but stood by his victory as the opposition rejected the results, alleging the numbers were "set in advance."
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Protesters angered at President Hamid Karzai&#39;s removal of a warlord governor in western Afghanistan ransacked UN compounds and clashed with security forces Sunday.
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Uzbek voters prepare to cast ballots in a parliamentary poll from which opponents to President Karimov are barred.
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The Uzbek government says it has begun official preparations for presidential elections in late December.
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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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Uzbekistan has voted in an election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate "revolutions" such as those which shook Ukraine and Georgia.
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Abkhazia's outgoing president on Tuesday denounced the election of his successor, warning that it could cost the breakaway republic its self-declared independence from Georgia.
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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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ISN SECURITY WATCH (24/12/04) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has used his recent election victory to squeeze leaders of Uzbek and Tajik militias out of their cabinet posts.
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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 chief rival of interim President Hamid Karzai said he has evidence of organized fraud in Afghanistan's election and accused the U.N.-Afghan electoral commission on Monday of ignoring his complaints.