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<title>EU Politics Today: EU Rigged Election News</title>
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<title>Background Notes : Tajikistan (10/08)</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192561846</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the president, approved by the Supreme Assembly. Elections: president elected by popular vote for a  ...  2005 parliamentary elections were considered to be flawed and unfair but peaceful. While the government  ...  key Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) standards on democratic elections, but there  ...
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<title>EU Lawmakers Urge Easing of Belarusian Sanctions</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192367840</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 23:24 GMT</pubDate>
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...  The non-binding resolution, passed Thursday, calls on EU countries to review and possibly suspend some  ...  top members of his government, following presidential elections that Western monitors said were rigged. But Thursday, parliament recommended that EU countries  ...
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<title>BREAKING : Macedonia Adopts Kosovo Resolution</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192356408</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 22:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  an independent state Macedonia will reaffirm its European and Euro-Atlantic orientation. The resolution was put  ...  that they started after the June general elections when they claimed the vote was rigged against them. Despite the constant pressure from  ...
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<title>Lithuania might keep nuke plant open</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192346647</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 21:43 GMT</pubDate>
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...  he will discuss the nuclear plant with EU economy ministers. Before joining the EU in  ...  until 2012. The reactor shares the same flawed design as the Chernobyl plant that exploded  ...  Lithuanians support keeping the unit open. Parliamentary elections will also take place the same day.  ...
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<title>Main players in Ukraine&apos;s party politics</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192346079</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 21:43 GMT</pubDate>
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...  date on Thursday for an early parliamentary election. Here is some background on the main  ...  &quot;Orange Revolution&quot; - mass rallies against a rigged presidential election in which Yushchenko was eventually  ...  of the NATO military alliance and the European Union policy cornerstones. Yushchenko is deeply religious  ...
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<title>Why we need Belarus</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192344986</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 21:41 GMT</pubDate>
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...  but a ruse for Belarus to continue rigging elections and arresting dissidents, while strategically playing its  ...  and Brussels but are not for joining EU or Nato. Even the plainclothes policemen who  ...
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<title>Lionel Beehner: The US must improve its relations with Belarus</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192342626</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 21:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  but a ruse for Belarus to continue rigging elections and arresting dissidents, while strategically playing its  ...  and Brussels but are not for joining EU or Nato. Even the plainclothes policemen who  ...
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<title>Opportunity knocks</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192328336</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 20:43 GMT</pubDate>
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...  prime minister, his opponent in the last election, Morgan Tsvangirai, fail to agree on the  ...  needed was a spark, after the country&amp;rsquo;s rigged election on December 27th, to ignite a  ...  seemed almost to approve Mr Kibaki&amp;rsquo;s disastrous rigging of the election. Several of the African  ...
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<title>Ukraine calls snap parliament election</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192304763</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 19:44 GMT</pubDate>
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... on Thursday called early general elections after dissolving parliament when parties failed to  ...  may come to power in the eastern European country of 47 million, casting doubt on  ...  inseparable for the so-called to overturn the rigged election of pro-Russian candidate Their pro-Western parties  ...
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<title>Azerbaijan: A Tale of Two Entrepreneurial Environments</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192259787</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 18:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and Israel, and significantly ahead of such European Union members as Spain and Portugal. The  ...  Ilham Aliyev, in the midst of a re-election campaign, cites the IFC report to tout  ...  IFC report. They say its methodology seems flawed because it only focused on regulatory changes,  ...
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<title>Fiji&apos;s military government wins court victory</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192244375</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 17:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  government which is under pressure to hold elections in 2009. Former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase,  ...  Australia but also the United States and European Union, to keep a promise of free  ...  Bainimarama has said continued corruption and a flawed, racial electoral system means fresh elections are  ...
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<title>Will Tainted Elections Open the West&apos;s Doors for Belarus?</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192126432</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 03:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  &quot;the last true dictatorship&quot; in Europe, held elections for its 110-seat lower house of parliament.  ...  persecuting political opponents, oppressing civil society, and rigging elections, the reversals were noteworthy. In the  ...  Sergei Martynov has been at the upcoming EU foreign ministers&apos; summit on Oct. 13, and  ...
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<title>Obama and McCain out of their depth</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192123811</link>
<pubDate>9 Oct 2008 03:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  late unlamented Prime Mendacious, prior to the election. I had the feeling sometime that maybe  ...  be shaped by a system of briefing flawed by media, lobbying and influence. An unelected  ...  respect to engage the world and bring Europe onside in genuine consultation on this crisis.  ...
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<title>Let Palin Be Palin</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192065739</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Americans and for all of us in Europe -- and for the rest of the  ...  matter -- if Sen. Obama wins the elections. I am sorry to say, but it  ...  who, for all his greatness was deeply flawed. He spent so much money on designing,  ...
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<title>Time for a new page on EU-Belarus ties: OSCE</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192004890</link>
<pubDate>8 Oct 2008 02:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Alexander Lukashenko a week after a parliamentary election judged by the OSCE to have fallen  ...  and the US repeatedly accused Lukashenko of rigging elections, jailing opponents and stifling independent media.  ...  travel ban on Lukashenko and 40 officials. EU officials said before the election that some  ...
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