Latvia elects doctor as president
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The Latvian parliament elects a leading medical doctor, Valdis Zatlers, as the Baltic state's next president.
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Former Chechen rebel fighter Ramzan Kadyrov is endorsed as president after being nominated by the Kremlin.
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Latvia dropped its controversial eurosceptic nominee to the European Commission on Tuesday, choosing a seasoned diplomat with European Union experience.
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Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga has been nominated by the leaders of the three Baltic states to run for the post of United Nations secretary general, the president's spokeswoman has said.
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Politics: 5 December 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria's first democratically elected president voiced concerns over the slow reforms of the judicial system in the country.
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After two weeks of fervent political debate, Saeima passed a bill today in support of President Vaira Vike-Freiberga's efforts to explain Latvia's complex modern history.
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Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga is due to leave office Saturday after two terms as leader of the Baltic state during which she stamped her personality and vision on the largely figurehead post.
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Latvia supports the opening of European Union membership talks with Turkey, the Foreign Ministry press office in Riga reported after a meeting of its minister Artis Pabriks with Turkish counterpart Abdullah ...
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Russian news agency&#39;s report the Russian government&#39;s choice has easily won the election for president of Chechnya. ITAR-Tass says the republic&#39;s police chief -- Alu Alkhanov -- received nearly 74 percent of the vote.
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BELGRADE, Jan 4 (IPS) - Slovenia saw one of the greatest honours in its  short history of 16 years as an independent state Jan. 1 when it  took the rotating presidency of the 27-member European Union (EU)  for the next six months.
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Party unanimously chooses Dmitry Medvedev as presidential candidate, as Putin says he would be happy to serve as prime minister
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By Jorgen JohanssonRIGA - Latvia's 1.4 million voters began streaming into voting booths across the tiny Baltic state on Saturday in an election expected to return the pro-EU government.Analysts said driving ...Comment
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Moscow (VNA) - Most Belorussians support constitutional changes to allow incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko to run for third term in office, according to the preliminary results of a referendum held on Sunday.
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Belarus' authoritarian president easily won approval in a referendum to run for a third term as leader of the former Soviet republic in 2006, the Central Elections Commission announced Monday.
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BRATISLAVA- Czech President Vaclav Klaus was presented with a honorary doctor's degree at the Economic University in Bratislava at the beginning of his one-day visit to Slovakia.
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The Christian Science Monitor - This tiny verdant patch of Europe has been a star pupil among new European Union states. Now, after three years of diligent study, Slovenia took over the EU presidency on Jan. 1, the first central European state entrusted with such a job.
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RIGA, Latvia (International Herald Tribune) - Latvia's government lost two ministers Friday in a widening row over the prime minister's decision to suspend the Baltic nation's top anti-corruption investigator. The dispute has left the government on the verge of collapse, but Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis said his four-party coalition would stay in office to work on the national budget.