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On February 8, 2015, Nigeria’s electoral commission decided to delay the presidential elections, previously scheduled for February 14, 2015, by six weeks due to security concerns. The commission stated that the army was already too overstretched in fighting Boko Haram and would be unable to provide the necessary security during the voting ...
... Lebanon’s democracy and stability. Upon his departure from the presidential palace at the end of his mandate on May 25, 2014, the former president Michel Suleiman urged all political factions to elect a new president. The first round of presidential elections was held on April 23, 2014, during which none of the candidates was capable of securing the number of votes needed to be elected. According to the Lebanese constitution, two-thirds of the parliament members, i.e. 86 MPs out of 128 must vote ...
Europe is offered the chance to “write her injuries in dust, but her benefits in marble” The upcoming January 25, 2015 national elections in Greece highlight a major challenge as they present a struggle between anger against austerity and fear of euro exit. The apparent reason that led to early national elections is the failure of the coalition government to obtain a parliamentary ...
Presidential elections were held in Croatia from December 28, 2014 to January 11, 2015. Here are some of the most interesting results of the poll. New Faces and Old Trends A distinctive feature of these elections was that the turnout was comparable to previous years ...
Moldova’s pro-European parties collected more than 50 per cent of the votes in last Sunday’s parliamentary elections, meaning that they now have good chance of forming a ruling coalition government. With 87 per cent of the votes counted, the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova received 19.3 per cent of the votes; the Democratic Party of Moldova garnered 15....
Uruguay in the Run-Up to the Elections The Uruguayan presidential elections took place on October 26, 2014. Their results — 44 per cent for the pre-election favourite Tabaré Vázquez against 34 per cent for his rival Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou — mean that ...
... Commission that will work with five Scottish parties (Conservative, Nationalist, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green). The Commission has been given until January 2015 to develop and publish a bill to be put to the vote after the general parliamentary elections of 2015. Let us note that the ruling SNP has shifted to the left of Labour in demanding “a fairer society” and there is a sense that, if allowed to influence the income tax rate, the Scottish parliament is likely to raise taxes in ...
... limited scale. Hopefully, this will happen not only thanks to international support and the remaining Western military presence, but also due to the greater legitimacy of the new administration (compared with that of Hamid Karzai) as a result of the elections and further state building. AP Photo Kabul election rally, 2014 Until July 2014, this hope was fuelled by the successful experience of the presidential elections in Afghanistan (to the extent that they can be successful in Afghan conditions),...
Despite a multitude of forecasts predicting the victory of Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan’s former foreign minister, in that country’s presidential election, preliminary results indicate that another contender, Ashraf Ghani, the former Finance Minister, might indeed be the winner. This result makes sense given the traditional domination of the Pashtuns in the central government of Afghanistan. The fact that Rashid Dustum, an influential Uzbek from the north of the country, will be Ghani’s...
Interview with Aleksei Sarabyev The Syrian presidential elections were held on June 3, 2014, with Bashar al-Assad emerging victorious. Aleksei Sarabyev , head of the Information and Publishing Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, talks to RIAC about how this ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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