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Still, with time running out before the Honduran election, only stepped-up U.S. and international pressure brought Micheletti and Zelaya to an accord. The most effective prod: a threat not to recognize the results of the vote, which would render the next Honduran President persona non grata around the world...
The results didn't cause much of a stir among voters, who are long used to allegations of fraud. Voter apathy is so widespread in fact that in a poll released Oct. 15 by the independent Levada Center, a shockingly low 4% of Russians said they felt certain that democracy...
Outside the chamber, the members of the Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Just Russia Party, which was created by the Kremlin to attract opposition votes, demanded a meeting with Medvedev to urge him to live up to his promises. "We do not recognize the nationwide election results...
The deputies also called for the resignation of the head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, who, in their view, epitomizes all that is wrong with Russia's electoral system. A bearded apparatchik with Coke-bottle glasses, Churov served under Putin in the St. Petersburg mayor's office in...
When asked in a 2001 television interview about the numerous corruption allegations that had dogged him throughout his years of public service, then-President Jacques Chirac waved the notion away as nothing but hot air. That changed on Friday, however, when a judge ordered Chirac to stand trial for alleged...