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Romania's parliamentary election appears too close to call with exit polls showing the centrist and leftist parties less than a percentage point apart with more than 90 per cent of the vote counted.
01/12/2008
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Parliamentary polls in Romania have opened with Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu's Liberals under threat of losing control of power.
30/11/2008
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Russia's president has welcomed a decision by the US government against speeding up Nato membership to Georgia and Ukraine, two former Soviet republics.
28/11/2008
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Russian warships have sailed into a Venezuelan port in the first deployment of its kind in the Caribbean since the end of the Cold War.
26/11/2008
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Three people, including a child, have been killed after a car blew up in a suspected grenade blast near a metro station in St Petersburg, officials say.
25/11/2008
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About 500 anti-Kremlin activists have met in Moscow to discuss forming a movement called "Solidarity" in the latest bid to unite Russia's liberals against what they call growing authoritarianism.
24/11/2008
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Russia's state-owned energy company, Gazprom, will cut off gas deliveries to Ukraine on January 1 unless a new contract is signed, a company spokesman has said.
23/11/2008
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French judicial officials have charged a key aide of Rwanda's president over the assassination of a former president of the country, amid national protests over her arrest.
20/11/2008
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Rose Kabuye, an aide to Rwanda's president who was arrested in Frankfurt earlier this month in connection with the assassination of a former president of the country, has been extradited to France.
19/11/2008
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The election of Barack Obama as US president could see Russia and the US reach a deal on Washington's controversial plan to deploy a missile defence system in eastern Europe, the Russian president has said.
16/11/2008
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The Russian lower house of parliament has approved constitutional changes aimed at extending presidential terms from four to six years.
14/11/2008
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Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has submitted to parliament a draft law which would extend the presidential term of office, a Kremlin spokeswoman said.
12/11/2008
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Rwanda will expel the German ambassador to the country and recall its own from Berlin after a senior government officials was arrested.
11/11/2008
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Rwanda has protested to Germany over the arrest of a high level official in connection with the death of a former president that triggered genocide in the central African nation.
10/11/2008
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Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has said that the country will deploy missiles in territory near Nato member Poland, in response to US missile defence plans.
05/11/2008
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