From: George Sherwood 

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:10:50 +0000, Adam wrote:

> George Sherwood wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:43:02 +0000, Adam wrote:
>>
>>
>>>http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2006/03/17/ap2603878.htm
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>>>
>>>"The government has banned election day demonstrations,
and KGB chief
>>>Stepan Sukhorenko has warned that any protesters Sunday could be charged
>>>with terrorism. Lukashenko vowed swift action against any foreigner
>>>trying to sow chaos.
>>>
>>>"God forbid one of them should try to do something in our
country. We
>>>will twist his head off immediately - like a duckling's," he said in
>>>comments broadcast on television."
>>
>>
>> From what I can read on the Russian sites, the demonstrations went on
>> peacefully tonight and have ended.  The candidates have called
>> for the same demonstrations tomorrow night.
>>
>> Looks like after counting about 22% of the votes, Lukashenko has just
>> under 90% of the votes with the rest down in the low single digits.
>>
>> George
>
> Well thank the lord they managed to keep the foreign terrorists out.

Amazingly fast counting of the ballots.  They are claiming already 100%
counted with Lukashenko winning with a margin of 82.6% to 6% for the 2nd
place candidate.

George

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