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| | Russian legislative election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Legislative elections were held in the Russian Federation on December 7, 2003. | | | At stake were the 450 seats in the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (The legislature). | | | Even the formal figure of 221 seats for United Russia is an underestimate, because most of the minor party and "independent" members are in fact clients or supporters of President Putin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_legislative_election,_2003
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| | Ukraine |
| | The Constitutional Court is the ultimate interpreter of legislation and the Constitution, and it determines the constitutionality of legislation, presidential edicts, cabinet acts, and acts of the Crimean Autonomous Republic. | | | As in the case of the Sumy mayoral election, a prominent candidate was disqualified just before the election was to be held. | | | The decree was based on the decision of a Lviv court of first instance that declared the June election invalid and ordered new elections. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27871.htm
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| | HK holds election for Legislative Council; Turnout High The Agonist |
| | The Legislative Council is also given the power to endorse the appointment and removal of the judges of the Court of Final Appeal and the chief judge of the High Court. | | | The elections here were the most important since the birth of a large street protest movement here in the summer of 2003, when the government tried to force stringent internal-security laws through the legislature. | | | The pro-democracy camp's dream of seizing control of the Legislative Council seemed to be dashed as a record number of Hong Kong voters flocked to the polls for the most closely watched election in the territory's history. |
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http://www.agonist.org/story/2004/9/12/5616/33922
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| | Promoting Democracy, Election Monitoring - Carter Center Democracy Program |
| | Election observers analyze election laws, assess voter registration processes, voter education efforts, and the openness of campaigns, focusing on competitiveness, unhindered participation in the election process, and access to the media. | | | The presence of impartial election observers reassures voters they can safely and secretly cast their ballots and that vote tabulation will be conducted without tampering. | | | East Timor: Monitoring its third election in East Timor since 1999, The Carter Center commended the new country on its 2002 presidential election that met international standards for freeness and fairness. |
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http://www.cartercenter.org/peaceprograms/program10.htm
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| | TAPPED: October 2004 Archives |
| | Election Law @ Moritz -- the Web site of the election law division of Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State. | | | Election Protection's Election Incident Reporting System -- Election Protection is logging all complaints received by their call center; they've already registered more than 200 calls for Miami-Dade County alone, ranging from the innocuous ("Wants to know where to vote") to the troublesome ("She reported that Haitian immigrants had been intimidated by 'Republican' lawyers"). | | | Election Law Blog -- The news-clipping blog of Rick Hasen, Loyola law professor and co-editor of Election Law Journal. |
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http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2004/10
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| | Electoral systems |
| | In a national or regional election the ideal is that if half of the voters vote for candidates from a particular party, then that party should win at least half of the seats in the legislature—there should be a high degree of what political scientists call ‘proportionality’. | | | In Tasmanian and ACT elections, for example, voters must allocate a number of preferences at least equal to the number of parliamentarians to be elected. | | | In the 2001 British election, for instance, the counting of 31187 votes for six candidates in the seat of Sunderland South was achieved 43 minutes after the close of polls. |
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http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RB/2005-06/06rb10.htm
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Russia |
| | Constitutional Court; Supreme Court; Superior Court of Arbitration; judges for all courts are appointed for life by the Federation Council on the recommendation of the president | | | In addition, a string of investigations launched against a major Russian oil company, culminating with the arrest of its CEO in the fall of 2003, have raised concerns by some observers that President PUTIN is granting more influence to forces within his government that desire to reassert state control over the economy. | | | elections: State Duma - last held 7 December 2003 (next to be held NA December 2007) |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rs.html
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| | Russia |
| | In April 2003 reformist politician Sergei Yushenkov became the third outspoken critic of the Kremlin to be assassinated in five years. | | | Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian SSR, began challenging the authority of the federal government and resigned from the Communist Party along with other dissenters in 1990. | | | Chinese, Russian presidents to attend opening ceremony of Year of Russia. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107909.html
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| | Elections and Electoral Systems by Country |
| | The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented. | | | Adam Carr's Electoral Archive has complete (ie, seat by seat) federal elections statistics from 1901 (federation) to the present, and statistics for all Australian state elections since 1990. | | | Parliamentary Election 1994 names and state of the parties |
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http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/election.htm
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| | Find russian election 2003 using our Local directory |
| | Russians went to the polls Sunday to elect new members of the Duma, the lower house of Parliament. | | | Find russian election 2003 using our Local directo... | | | Find russian election 2003 using our Local directory |
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http://www.lifestylelocal.co.uk/search.htm?qLookingFor=russian+election+2003
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| | [ Russian Election Special ] |
| | He had planned to run for the Voronezh seat he won in 1995, but a new provision in the election law prohibited candidates running in single-mandate districts from appearing in free-airtime slots on national television and radio on behalf of their party lists (see "RFE/RL Russian Election Report," 26 November 1999). | | | Unfortunately for Rybkin, the Justice Ministry had already registered the Liberal Russia party led by the politicians who had expelled Berezovskii. | | | They said real power lay in the hands of Boris Berezovskii, who served as Security Council deputy secretary from November 1996 to November 1997. |
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http://www.rferl.org/specials/russianelection/bio/rybkin.asp
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| | On The Russian Elections 2003 |
| | The idea that campaigning for public office is unstatesmanlike and even harmful has its roots in Putin's 2000 presidential campaign, which similarly denigrated the idea of articulating positions to voters. | | | But as long as voters are satisfied with vague promises to stand with the president, Unified Russia will not be the last party to run a content-free parliamentary campaign. | | | Then acting President Putin, the clear frontrunner, skipped the debates and declined to publish an election platform. |
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http://www.masterpage.com.pl/outlook/russianelections2003.html
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| | BBC NEWS Africa Liberia gears up for peace poll |
| | In concurrent legislative elections 206 candidates are fighting for 30 senate seats, and the 64 lower house seats are being contested by 503 hopefuls. | | | Campaigning has started for Liberia's first general elections since the end of a 14-year civil war. | | | Mr Taylor - wanted by the UN-backed war crimes court in Sierra Leone - has been accused of trying to manipulate the election from the Nigerian town of Calabar, where he lives in exile. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4153250.stm
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| | &year258=2002&month258=2&day258=17&DisDate258=03 17 2002&Title258= Portugal: elections for the Parliament &year259=2002&month259=2&day259=12&DisDate259=03 12 2002&Title259= In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. | | | Evans'' against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of &year746=1996&month746=4&day746=13&DisDate746=05 13 1996&Title746= Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kills 600. | | | She is later sentenced to life in prison. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Georgia |
| | An attempt by the government to manipulate legislative elections in November 2003 touched off widespread protests that led to the resignation of Eduard SHEVARDNADZE, president since 1995. | | | New elections in early 2004 swept Mikheil SAAKASHVILI into power along with his National Movement Party. | | | elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 4 January 2004 (next to be held NA 2009) |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gg.html
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| | Welcome to Commentary by Gerald Day |
| | On April 7, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Virginia v. | | | Black, 538 U. ____ (2003), decided a case involving the conviction of three men for violating, in two unrelated incidents, a Virginia statute prohibiting cross burning. | | | Rather, voters should be able to assume that language placed in the body of an initiative serves a legitimate and necessary purpose for effectuating the legislation. |
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http://www.geraldday.com/2003.htm
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| | In local election campaigns, anti-Semitic propaganda is frequently used by politicians. | | | The same tendency was observed during some mayoral and gubernatorial elections in a number of regions of the Russian Federation; | | | For example, on October 14 the Nizniy Novgorod City Court cancelled the decision of the District Court, which found the anti-Semitic publisher Paul Ivanov not guilty, and a new hearing was scheduled. |
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http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/as_russia_2003.asp
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| | Editorial: Putin's victory / An imperfect election helps the Russian president |
| | The victory in Sunday's legislative elections by President Vladimir V. Putin's movement, United Russia, reflects his increasing control over post-Soviet affairs. | | | It is also worth speculating whether Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's admonition to Russia to stay out of Georgian affairs, delivered two days before the elections, played any role in voters' attitudes toward the Putin government. | | | Editorial: Putin's victory / An imperfect election helps the Russian president |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03343/249001.stm
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| | Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Europe & Central Asia: Azerbaijan |
| | With President Aliev determining to stand in presidential elections slated for the end of 2003, on August 24 the government staged a referendum on constitutional changes. | | | International criticism of Azerbaijan peaked in September, after the government staged a referendum that was clearly aimed at ensuring that eighty-year-old President Heidar Aliev could appoint his son as acting president should he step down. | | | The referendum galvanized support for a newly united group of opposition parties, which had called for a boycott of the vote and mustered tens of thousands at protest rallies held in Baku in September and October. |
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http://www.hrw.org/wr2k3/europe3.html
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| | NSW Election 2003 - smh.com.au |
| | But there are several choices in the state's left-of-centre political scene, and the vote is constantly being split at election time. | | | They're not standing any candidates at the upcoming NSW election. | | | "But we will be participating in the election campaign. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/25/1046064016172.html
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| | Israel and the Occupied Territories |
| | The Palestinian Authority has no constitution; however, the 2002 Basic Law provides for religious freedom and the PA generally respects this right in practice. | | | Shinui joined the Government and was given control over the Ministries of Interior and Justice. | | | The Basic Law states that the principles of Shari'a (Islamic law) are "the main source of legislation," while the draft constitution states that Shari'a is "a major source of legislation." |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24453.htm
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| | Harper's Index for February 2004 (Harpers.org) |
| | Percentage by which that election's turnout fell short of the threshold Serbia requires for lawful elections : 11 [Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (Belgrade) ] | | | Percentage by which Dick Gephardt's $460,000 overexpenditure exceeded the limits for Iowa's nomination caucus in 1988 : 60 [Federal Election Commission (Washington) ] | | | Percentage margin by which a Milosevic-supported candidate won Serbia's presidential election last November : 12 [Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (Belgrade) ] |
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http://www.harpers.org/HarpersIndex2004-02.html
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | U.S. Criticizes Russian Moves In South Ossetia, Praises Georgia | | | Russian Wins Police Harrassment Case At European High Court | | | Swedish Court Rules Against Russian Accused Of Spying |
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http://www.rferl.org/bd/ru
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Two dead in Nablus gun battle |
| | Abu Mazen also called on the United States to lift its boycott of Mr Arafat - "the elected, legitimate, constitutional and historical president of the Palestinian people". | | | In a speech to MPs, who were reviewing his first 100 days in office, Abu Mazen called on legislators to back him or sack him. | | | An Israeli soldier and a senior Palestinian militant have been killed during an army raid in the West Bank town of Nablus. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3082686.stm
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| | ipedia.com: List of election results Article |
| | This is a list of election results from around the world. | | | There is also a list of political parties and a list of politics by country. | | | UK Regional and local elections (including Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) |
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http://www.ipedia.com/list_of_election_results.html
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| | Russia 1999 Legislative Election |
| | * The election took place on December 19, 1999, with reballoting on March 26, in 8 districts (where a plurality of voters rejected all candidates), and on August 20, 2000 in Chechnya. | | | Source: Political Handbook of the World 2000-02, Binghamton, NY: CSA Publications, 2003. | | | Congress of Russian Communities and the Yuri Boldyrev Movement (KRO-DYB) |
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http://cdp.binghamton.edu/era/elections/rus99par.html
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| | Definition of Yabloko |
| | 255: The [[YablokoApple Russian Democratic Party]] (Jabloko - Rossi... | | | Russian liberals are organised into the [[Yabloko]] and [[Union of Right Forces]] parties. | | | 2:...l International]] has as its Russian member the [[Yabloko]] party. |
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http://www.wordiq.com/search/Yabloko.html
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| | IFES Election Guide |
| | Comoros: AU Military Electoral Observers For Presidential Election | | | Skip directly to: Site Navigation, Content, Election Search. | | | ElectionGuide provides information on national and selected other elections around the world with coverage beginning in 1998. |
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http://www.electionguide.org
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| | Denver Decides - 2003 Election |
| | These fine organizations have gotten together this year to perform the civic duty and the civic amenities of trying to interview all the district council candidates, the auditor candidates, the at-large City Council candidates and the mayoral candidates for the upcoming election in 2003. | | | June 3: View live election results online or on Denver 8 TV | | | Tonight, we’re at the Temple Events Center in downtown Denver. And over to my le-, over to my right are the City Council candidates for District 9. I'd like to welcome our moderator for tonight’s festivities, Sarah McCarthy. Sarah. |
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http://www.denvergov.org/vote/transcript_ddforum7.asp
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