US, EU action expected after Crimea referendum
Voters in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula have cast ballots in a referendum widely expected to endorse joining Russia. The United States
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Day: March 16, 2014
Declaring victory, Crimean and Russian officials pledge fast integration
With one exit poll showing that 93 per cent of Crimeans voted to join Russia, the peninsula’s pro-Kremlin prime minister
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Serbian Progressive Party triumphs in March 16 elections
According to the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) preliminary results, the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) gained an absolute
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Vucic’s SNS takes about 50% in Serbian snap parliamentary elections – reports
Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) got somewhere between 48 and 50 per cent of the vote in Serbia’s snap
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Crimean PM: 93 per cent of voters want to join Russia
Crimea’s prime minister says preliminary results from Sunday’s referendum on whether to break away from Ukraine indicate that 93 percent
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Observers, journalists not welcome to watch vote count at polling station in Simferopol
If respected international election observers had been allowed to watch Crimea’s referendum on whether to join Russia or merely gain
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Turnout in disputed Crimea vote about 64 per cent
The polls have closed in a controverisal referendum for the southern Ukrainian region of Crimea to break away and become
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Of Plovdiv football fans and the politics of a bus
It was one thing that fans of a Plovdiv football club had to make the trek to Sofia to watch
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Slovakia’s presidential elections: Fico and Kiska reach runoff
“This is a referendum about Smer,” said Prime Minister Robert Fico shortly after the official presidential candidate of the ruling
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