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859
validation
1
Absentee voting in the elections began on Wednesday , August 28 and runs for a week .
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860
validation
1
Election day for those living inside Bosnia is September 14 .
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861
validation
1
The Party of Democratic Action ( SDA ) had called on Wednesday for its followers abroad to boycott the absentee balloting because of voter registration irregularities , especially among Serb refugees .
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862
validation
1
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) postponed municipal elections as a result of the irregularities but decided to proceed with voting for higher offices .
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863
validation
1
The SDA , joined by two other parties , has been demanding that OSCE prohibit refugees voting from any place other than their pre-war place of residence as a means to prevent the elections from ratifying the results of ethnic cleansing .
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864
validation
1
Belgrade airport runway repairs Sept 21-26-agency .
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865
validation
1
BELGRADE 1996-08-30
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866
validation
1
Belgrade 's main airport Aerodrom Beograd will be closed to traffic for runway maintenance and modernization from September 21 to 26 , the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported late on Friday .
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867
validation
1
" During the works , all flights will be re-routed to the nearby airport in Batajnica , with no change in schedules , " Tanjug quotes Belgrade airport General Director Ljubomir Acimovic as saying .
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868
validation
1
The airport in Surcin will continue to carry out all other activities and has secured enough buses to transport passengers to Batajnica , Acimovic said .
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869
validation
1
The value of maintenance works , which will last 120 hours straight , is 20 million dinars and the funds have been secured by Belgrade airport , Tanjug said .
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870
validation
1
The Batajnica airport will take over complete air traffic control during this period , Federal Air Traffic Control Administration Director Branko Bilbija said .
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871
validation
1
-- Amra Kevic , Belgrade newsroom +381 11 2224305
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872
validation
1
Top Belarus politician blasts president .
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873
validation
1
Larisa Sayenko
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874
validation
1
MINSK 1996-08-30
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875
validation
1
A senior Belarus politician accused President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday of attempting to set up a dictatorship in the former Soviet republic .
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876
validation
1
The speaker of the Belarus parliament , Semyon Sharetsky , told Reuters that a draft constitution , due to be put to a national referendum on November 7 , would dangerously increase the powers of the ruler .
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877
validation
1
" The world community should not be indifferent to the fact that President Lukashenko , who leads this European state of 10 million people , is trying to establish a dictatorship with his new constitution , " Sharetsky said .
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878
validation
1
The new constitution calls for a two-chamber parliament with a 110-seat majority-elected house of representatives and a regionally-represented senate with a third of its members named by the president .
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879
validation
1
Lukashenko 's aides shrugged off Sharetsky 's charge . "
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880
validation
1
If there was a dictatorship they would n't have the right to say things like this , " Sergei Posukhov , Lukashenko 's political adviser , told Reuters .
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881
validation
1
" The people have asked us to establish order and that 's our main aim . "
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882
validation
1
Lukashenko , 41 , won presidential polls in 1994 on promises to restore order , fight corruption and repair the strong links with Russia that were disrupted by the collapse of the Soviet Union .
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883
validation
1
But during his period in office he has battled against nationalist opponents , trade unions and parliament and Sharetsky said the current parliament was ready to try to impeach him .
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884
validation
1
" This constitution , which has been prepared in secret , aims to gather all power in one man 's hands , " he said . "
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885
validation
1
We should not be fooled by his quasi-democratic rhetoric and his methods , like this referendum . "
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886
validation
1
Lukashenko signed a pact with Moscow in April to create a strong economic and political union which he believes could grow into a federation .
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887
validation
1
But nationalist groups , scared by the prospect of renewed Moscow domination and Russia 's backing for Lukashenko , protested against the deal .
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888
validation
1
Lukashenko responded by cracking down on the nationalist opposition and jailing nearly 200 people for taking part in demonstrations against the pact .
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889
validation
1
The United States last week granted political asylum to two opposition leaders , Zenon Poznyak and Sergei Naumchik .
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890
validation
1
Tajik troops now control devastated town .
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891
validation
1
Yuri Kushko
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892
validation
1
TAVILDARA , Tajikistan 1996-08-30
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893
validation
1
Tajik government troops now control of the strategically vital town of Tavildara after driving out Islamic rebels , but sporadic gunfire still echoed in the nearby Pamir mountains on Friday .
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894
validation
1
The commander-in-chief of Tajikistan 's armed forces , Major-General Nikolai Sherbatov , took a group of journalists by helicopter to the remote , and now devastated , town to show that his forces held it .
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895
validation
1
He said his troops took Tavildara without casualties on August 23 , but the crack of sniper and machinegun fire revealed the presence of opposition fighters in the surrounding mountains .
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896
validation
1
Sherbatov said the rebels were located about three km ( two miles ) east of Tavildara around the village of Layron .
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897
validation
1
Tavildara , 200 km ( 120 miles ) east of the capital Dushanbe , was in ruins .
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898
validation
1
Shells had smashed roofs and windows and empty shell cases littered the streets .
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899
validation
1
The town straddles a strategically important road linking government and rebel-held territory and has fallen succesively to both sides in a bloody tug-of-war which began last February .
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900
validation
1
Tajikistan , which borders Afghanistan and China , has been split by a dragging four-year conflict after a civil war between communists and a frail coalition of Islamic and liberal groups .
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901
validation
1
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and many more have been displaced in the fighting , which breached a shaky United Nations-sponsored ceasefire .
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902
validation
1
Tavildara is now apparently inhabited only by a few old men , women and their grubby , barefoot children .
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903
validation
1
Fruit remained on the trees as there was no one to pick it .
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904
validation
1
" Help me , help me , " said a chorus of women begging soldiers for food .
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905
validation
1
The town 's school and a shop doubling as a warehouse for humanitarian aid were destroyed in the fighting .
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906
validation
1
" We had to build our own earth shelters to survive the fighting , " said Rajab Adinayev , a bearded elderly Tajik in a long white shirt .
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907
validation
1
Although shy in front of the government soldiers , several inhabitants accused government forces of widespread looting of homes and livestock .
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908
validation
1
They also said rebel fighters had looted medicines from the local hospital .
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909
validation
1
One elderly man , who declined to give his name , said two of his sons were now refugees in Moscow and the other two had left to fight for the opposition .
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910
validation
1
He also said government soldiers had raped the wife of one of his sons . "
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
911
validation
1
It 's not important who holds this town , we just need to stop the war , " he said .
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912
validation
1
Polish Foreign Minister to visit Yugoslavia .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": ["Yugoslavia"], "miscellaneous": ["Polish"]}
913
validation
1
WARSAW 1996-08-30
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914
validation
1
Poland 's Foreign Minister Dariusz Rosati will visit Yugoslavia on September 3 and 4 to revive a dialogue between the two governments which was effectively frozen in 1992 , PAP news agency reported on Friday .
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915
validation
1
During Rosati 's trip the two countries will sign an agreement on mutual protection of investments and a note easing conditions on the granting of visas , the agency quoted Foreign Ministry officials as saying .
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916
validation
1
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is the only country of the former Yugoslavia where Poles currently require visas .
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917
validation
1
They are also to clinch protocols on culture and understanding between the two foreign ministries .
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918
validation
1
Rosati will meet Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslav politicians in Belgrade , before visiting Montenegro .
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919
validation
1
Poland revived diplomatic ties at ambassadorial level with Yugoslavia in April but economic links are almost moribund , despite the end of a three-year U.N. trade embargo imposed to punish Belgrade for its support of Bosnian Serbs .
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920
validation
1
Poland is seeking pacts on avoiding double taxation and wants cooperation in fighting crime .
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921
validation
1
Yeltsin visits wife Naina in hospital - Interfax .
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922
validation
1
MOSCOW 1996-08-30
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923
validation
1
Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited his wife Naina in hospital on Friday evening , Interfax news agency quoted spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky as saying .
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924
validation
1
Naina Yeltsin had a kidney operation last Saturday .
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925
validation
1
Earlier Russian news reports had said Yeltsin 's children and grandchildren had visited the Russian first lady but they said only that Yeltsin , on vacation outside Moscow , had spoken to her by telephone .
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926
validation
1
" Naina Yeltsin looks well , she is active , she is clearly getting better , " Yastrzhembsky quoted Yeltsin as saying .
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927
validation
1
Naina Yeltsin is recovering in Moscow 's Central Clinical Hospital , where the president himself was treated twice last year for heart attacks .
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928
validation
1
Yeltsin , 65 , has been seen only rarely since he was elected for a second term in office on July 3 , although his aides have denied a string of rumours that he has been taken ill again .
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929
validation
1
Yastrzhembsky said Yeltsin had travelled from the hospital to spend the night at the Barvikha sanatorium outside Moscow .
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930
validation
1
He was likely to return on Saturday to his holiday resort , a hunting lodge some 100 km ( 60 miles ) from Moscow .
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931
validation
1
Lebed , Chechens start peace talks .
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932
validation
1
KHASAVYURT , Russia 1996-08-30
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933
validation
1
Russian peacemaker Alexander Lebed and Chechen separatist military leader Aslan Maskhadov started a new round of peace talks on Friday in this settlement just outside the rebel region .
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934
validation
1
Lebed , who flew into Chechnya earlier in the day , said he hoped to sign a framework agreement on a political settlement of the 20-month conflict in which tens of thousands of people have died .
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935
validation
1
Neither Lebed nor Maskhadov made any statement before the talks .
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936
validation
1
Russian judge stabbed to death over $ 7 fine .
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937
validation
1
MOSCOW 1996-08-30
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938
validation
1
A Moscow street vendor stabbed to death a woman judge in a city court on Friday after she fined him the equivalent of seven dollars for trading illegally , Interfax news agency said .
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939
validation
1
Interfax said Judge Olga Lavrentyeva , 28 , on Thursday ordered the confiscation of several overcoats , suits and shirts which vendor Valery Ivankov , 41 , was illegally trading on Moscow streets and fined him 38,000 roubles ( seven dollars ) .
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940
validation
1
The next morning , Ivankov appeared in the courtroom and stabbed Lavrentyeva .
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941
validation
1
The judge died later in hospital .
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942
validation
1
Interfax quoted Levrentyeva 's colleagues as saying that judges were generally unprotected against criminal attacks .
{"person": ["Levrentyeva"], "organization": ["Interfax"], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
943
validation
1
Cofinec plunges on H1 results .
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944
validation
1
Emese Bartha
{"person": ["Emese Bartha"], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
945
validation
1
BUDAPEST 1996-08-30
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946
validation
1
Shares of France-registered printed packaging company Cofinec S.A. plunged sharply on the Budapest Stock Exchange ( BSE ) on Friday , despite a mostly reassuring forecast by the group .
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947
validation
1
Cofinec 's Global Depositary Receipts ( GDRs ) opened at 5,200 forints on the BSE , down 600 from Thursday 's close , following the release of its first half results this morning .
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948
validation
1
Cofinec CEO Stephen Frater told reporters in a conference call from Vienna on Friday before the opening of the bourse that he expects a stronger second half , although the group will not be able to achieve its annual profit goal .
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949
validation
1
" We will not achieve the full 37 million French franc ( net ) profit forecast , " Frater said . "
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950
validation
1
Obviously , we cannot make up the unexpected decrease that has been experienced in the first half of the year . "
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951
validation
1
Frater declined to give a forecast for the full year , ahead of a supervisory board meeting next week .
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952
validation
1
Cofinec , the first foreign company to list on the Budapest bourse , released its consolidated first half figures ( IAS ) this morning .
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953
validation
1
In the conference call , Frater said he regarded Cofinec GDRs -- which are trading below their issue price of 6,425 forints -- as a buying opportunity .
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954
validation
1
" Obviously , at some point it represents a buying opportunity , " Frater said . "
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955
validation
1
I think the reality is that we operate in emerging markets , emerging markets tend to be more volatile . "
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956
validation
1
" My message is that the fundamental strategy of the company , its fundamental market position has not changed . "
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957
validation
1
The group , which operates in Hungary , Poland and the Czech Republic , reported an operating profit before interest of 21.8 million French francs compared to 34.1 million in the same six months of 1995 .
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958
validation
1
Net profit for the January-June 1996 period was 2.1 million French francs , down from 10.3 million in the first six months of 1995 , with the bulk of this decline attributable to the performance of Petofi , one of its Hungarian units .
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