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Russia accuses America of interfering in their local elections
Experts of the Federation Council Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty and Prevention of Intervention in Russia’s Internal Affairs announced that they had evidence to prove facts of US influence on the course of regional elections that took place in Russia on September 10.
According to the head of the commission, Senator Andrei Klimov, foreign countries made wire transfers to Russian...
Le Pen praises France's National Front party's result at local elections
France’s National Front party has won a sizeable number of council seats in Sunday’s second round of local elections. Though the party didn’t do as well as was predicted in polls, its leader Marine Le Pen calls the results a “magnificent success.”
The National Front is “becoming a powerful political force in numerous regions,” Le Pen tweeted, adding that that the party...
8 killed in local election clashes as Turkey splits over rival parties
15-year-old Berkin Elvan went out to get some bread and got caught in a demonstration crackdown. He later died in hospital of injuries sustained during the clashes.
At least eight people have been killed in clashes between rival groups in Turkey’s municipal elections, media reports say. Tensions soared at the polls that will decide the distribution of power between the country’s two major parties.
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Local elections in Poland test government's popularity
Some 30 million Poles are eligible to vote in the elections
Voting stations across Poland opened Sunday for municipal elections in which 48,000 regional leaders were to be elected. The elections are regarded as a political barometer ahead of parliamentary elections in 2011.
Local elections in Poland have opened across the country, in a key test for the government ahead of parliamentary elections next...