Many Russians reportedly feel that there is no alternative to Putin in a vote that opponents say is skewed in his favour.
When the Soviet era political permafrost melted gradually over the ten years after the 1991 collapse of the red star, the relic -- the holy relic -- that emerged was Vladimir Putin, the successor chosen by Boris Yeltsin at the end of a senselessly chaotic decade.
The results from Iran's Parliamentary elections, which took place on Fri., March 2, trickled in on Saturday. The results so far indicate that the Broad Principalist Coalition, a political organization founded in 2008 by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei to oppose Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will win in a landslide, signifying the end of Ahmadinejad's rule.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be the biggest loser -- and the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may be the biggest winner -- in the parliamentary elections conducted Friday, but the final results will not be known for two or three days.
The BSE Sensex ended flat in a short special trading session on Saturday as investors remained cautious ahead of results of state elections due this week.
Washington Republicans vote their Presidential nominee on Saturday, three days before the Super Tuesday contests when 10 states will hold their primaries and caucuses. The contest has gained attention as this is the final chance to gain momentum for the candidates before the crucial Super Tuesday contests, which will in fact decide the final GOP nominee.
It's one of the biggest nights of the election year, and for the GOP presidential nomination contest, it could be a game-changer. Although the GOP primaries and caucuses began two months ago on Jan. 3 in Iowa, in recent weeks, everything has been building up to Super Tuesday.
The former KGB-man spoke of how he was favored by a majority of Russians, with recent polls putting his popularity at around 60 percent.
About 48-million people are eligible to vote for 290 seats in the Tehran parliament, the Majlis.
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has often surprised his foes, but Friday's parliamentary poll may make him a lame duck for the rest of his presidency, a penalty for defying the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader.
The voting began in Iran's parliamentary elections Friday. The elections held at a crucial time as the country is facing international sanctions and war threat over its nuclear program.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was forced to take shelter in a bar to escape from several hundreds of angry protesters who booed him, as he campaigned in the Basque country in South West France. The riot police guarded the bar du Palais, in Bayonne, for more than an hour to protect Sarkozy from the protesters who threw eggs at the bar, shouting slogans against him.
Elderly Wade, 85, gained 34.8 percent of the vote, failing to secure an outright majority in Sunday's presidential elections
Senate Democrats beat back an amendment from Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri that would allow any employer and insurance company to withhold coverage of certain procedures if they can claim a moral or religious reason.
Occupy Wall Street drew a top U.S. security agency's scrutiny, Rolling Stone reported, as protesters across the country tried to revive the movement in a day of action against corporate greed.
In a surprise move, North Korea agreed to temporarily suspend its nuclear tests and the launch of long range ballistic missile in exchange for 240,000 metric tons of food aid from the U.S. The breakthrough decision was announced in two separate statements released in Washington and Pyongyang on Wednesday.
The lifting of a travel ban on seven Americans in Egypt eases some of the nascent tension between Cairo and the Washington D.C. This has been the worst diplomatic crisis between the two nations in three decades, aggravated by a recent context of unease in diplomatic relations between Egypt and the West.
On the eve of presidential elections, Vladimir Putin is claiming that his opponents might use murder and ballot stuffing to tarnish the vote.
At least 100 people a day are now crossing the border, with up to 3,000 fleeing since elections in November.
Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican known for being a moderate in a polarized congress, announced Tuesday that she isn't running for re-election in November.
Mitt Romney may have won two state primaries Tuesday night, but Rick Santorum is a winner just for putting up a strong fight in Michigan.
A senior Muslim Brotherhood member and the head of the foreign affairs committee in the Egyptian parliament said on Monday that the popular political uprising that swept across the Middle East last year, overthrowing many dictatorial regimes including that of Egypt, is headed to Iran.
