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Only 30.98 percent of eligible voters have gone to Sunday's polls.

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Moldova's referendum declared invalid because of low turnout (UPDATE 1)

03:10 06/09/2010

Moldova's referendum on whether the country's president should be directly elected was declared invalid on Monday as voter turnout has not reached the necessary 33.33 percent.

URGENT: Moldova's referendum declared invalid because of low turnout
02:30 06/09/2010
Moldova's referendum on whether the country's president should be directly elected was declared invalid on Monday as voter turnout has not reached the necessary 33.33 percent.
Russian presidential envoy to unveil North Caucasus development strategy
02:09 06/09/2010
The Russian presidential envoy to the North Caucasus will present a regional social and economic development strategy to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday.
Israeli defense minister heads to Russia for military talks
01:11 06/09/2010
The Russian and Israeli defense ministers, Anatoly Serdyukov and Ehud Barak, are planning to sign an agreement on military cooperation during talks in Moscow.
Low turnout in Moldova's referendum sparks fears of failure
00:31 06/09/2010
Turnout results from all but three of Moldova's regions show that only some 25 percent of the country's eligible voters has gone to the polls in Sunday's referendum on whether the Moldovan president should be directly elected.
Main news of September 5
23:59 05/09/2010
A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours.
Ovechkin calls for charity hockey game to become annual event
23:52 05/09/2010
A charity ice hockey game involving Russian players and politicians could become an annual event, NHL star Alexander Ovechkin said after a game that raised millions of rubles for victims of this summer's wildfires in Russia.1
Russia's top doctor calls on public to help wildfire victims
23:04 05/09/2010
Russia's chief sanitary official urged Russians on Sunday to donate what they could to help the victims of this week's wildfires in the Volgograd Region.
Wildfires in Russia in 2010
23:04 05/09/2010
Temperatures across much of western and central Russia have topped 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in July, causing peat bog and forest fires and creating what is thought to be the worst drought since 1972
Dzagoev hits out at media criticism of Russian football team
21:39 05/09/2010
CSKA Moscow star Alan Dzagoev has urged the Russian media not to criticize Russia's players ahead of their Euro 2012 qualifying match with Slovakia.
Russian defense minister inspects site of Dagestan attack
20:46 05/09/2010
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov personally examined on Sunday the scene of the suicide bombing that killed three soldiers at a military firing range in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.
Two explosion rocks Buinaksk in N.Caucasus
20:46 05/09/2010
Two blasts hit the Dagestan’s city of Buinaksk on Sunday. Early in the morning a car packed with explosives and driven by a suicide bomber detonated near Buinaksk after ramming the gates of a military unit. Later, a second bomb exploded in Buinaksk on the way of police officers heading to the site of the first blast. Five people were killed in the bombing; over thirty received wounds of varying severity.
Georgian officer killed in Afghanistan
19:52 05/09/2010
One Georgian army officer was killed on Sunday and another injured during an ISAF operation in Afghanistan, Georgia's Defense Ministry said.
Thieves steal 3 ancient icons from Moscow Region church
19:38 05/09/2010
Three icons, one of which contained relics of one of Russia's most venerated saints, have been stolen from a church in a village north of Moscow, a police source said on Sunday.
Moldova votes in referendum on direct presidential elections
18:12 05/09/2010
People in the former Soviet republic of Moldova are voting in a referendum on whether the country's president should be directly elected, with turnout at around 18 percent with five hours of voting remaining.
Pletnev to conduct RNO in Moscow despite Thai sex abuse charges
17:42 05/09/2010
Mikhail Pletnev, the leader of the Russian National Orchestra who is accused in Thailand of sexually abusing a minor, will open the second RNO Festival in Moscow.
Ovechkin, Kovalchuk lead teams to tie in Moscow charity hockey game
17:05 05/09/2010
Members of Russia's political elite took to the ice with some of the NHL's biggest stars for a hockey game in support of children affected by this summer's devastating wildfires.
Russia's defense minister arrives in Dagestan
16:06 05/09/2010
Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov arrived in Dagestan to order measures to help those injured in the suicide bombing in Buinaksk.
Israeli airstrike hits Gaza
15:54 05/09/2010
The Israeli Air Forces launched a series of airstrikes on Gaza in response to a rocket assault by Palestinian militants, the Israeli Defense Forces' press service said on Saturday.
Electricity line failure lefts Georgia without light
15:49 05/09/2010
The territory of almost all Georgia on Sunday remained without light due to electricity transmission line failure, a spokeswoman for the Georgian State Electrosystem of energy company said.

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