1. Xbox 360 to be usead as electronic voting system
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Americans will soon be able to use Xbox Live to register to vote in the November presidential elections. Microsoft has signed a partnership with activist group Rock The Vote to boost inter

2. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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...nown to be reluctant to carry on in a situation similar to that of Romano Prodi two years ago, when the ex-president of the European commission had a majority of only two in the senate and had to r...

3. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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...ests against falsified parliamentary elections sparked in November 2003 eventually forced out the incumbent president, Eduard Shevardnadze, created optimism that the country would move towards full...

4. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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For more than six years, the administration of President Vladimir Putin  as deepened and darkened a political, economic, and moral crisis in my home nation of Russia. I would like to talk about t

5. Political Power in Africa
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..., the Senate of Nigeria rejected a bill which would have changed that country’s constitution to permit President Olusegun Obasanjo a third term in office. By asserting the supremacy of the const...

6. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...uela, as many like to observe, tongue in cheek, is now a "wonderland." The rhetoric emanating from President Hugo Chávez is of revolution, socialism and, as he declared in a televisio...