CNN 20 December 2010 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has won re-election with 79% of the vote, state media said Monday, citing preliminary voting results. The country's Central Election Commission told the state-run Belarusian Telegraph Agency (BelTA) that the voter turnout was 90% and that it had not received any complaints. However, opposition candidates on Sunday took to the streets in the capital city of Minsk and clashed with

NEWS.LIGA.NET 20 December 2010 Организация по безопасности и сотрудничеству в Европе (ОБСЕ) не признала выборы Президента Беларуси легитимными. Об этом заявил сегодня глава ее миссии Тони Ллойд. "Нормативно-правовая база в Беларуси неадекватна и не гарантирует проведение прозрачных выборов в свете обязательств ОБСЕ", - подчеркнул Т.Ллойд, которого цитирует ИТАР-ТАСС. "Нет условий для эффективной подачи жалоб, - отметил он. - Выборы не смогли

KP.BY 20 December 2010 «Аресты кандидатов в президенты, представителей гражданского общества и грубый разгон демонстрации будут являться бэкграундом» Выборы в Белоруссии нельзя признать свободными и демократичными, заявил на пресс-конференции в понедельник в Минске глава миссии краткосрочных наблюдателей БДИПЧ ОБСЕ Тони Ллойд. - Белоруссии еще предстоит проделать большой путь, чтобы соблюдать ее обязательства в рамках ОБСЕ", - цитирует Тони

RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY 20 December 2010 Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has won a fourth term in office in an election marred by violence and claims of massive falsification. The head of the Central Election Commission, Lidiya Yermoshina, announced that Lukashenka won a decisive first-round victory with nearly 80 percent of the vote. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's observer mission in Belarus says

DEUTSCHE PRESS-AGENTUR 20 December 2010 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Monday condemned Belarus' latest presidential election and said that the counting of votes was seriously flawed. 'While voting on election day was overall assessed positively, the process deteriorated significantly during the vote count, with observers assessing almost half of vote counts monitored as bad or very bad,' the OSCE said in a

REUTERS 20 December 2010 International monitors on Monday criticised the conduct of a presidential election in Belarus as "flawed" and condemned a "heavy-handed" crackdown by police on opposition leaders and demonstrators. "This election failed to give Belarus the new start it needed," said Tony Lloyd, head of the short-term observer mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, after President Alexander Lukashenko was