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ON THE HORIZON
An election worker performing an audit.On December 13, 2010, the Palestinian High Court issued its final verdict on the lawsuits challenging the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) of the Palestinian Authority decision to cancel the local elections scheduled for July 17, 2010.
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FEATURES
Armenia's last presidential election, held on February 19, 2008, resulted in a series of protests in Yerevan's Freedom Square from demonstrators who alleged the election, won by then-Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, was flawed. Police and state security units eventually dispersed the demonstrations by force.
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Yesterday the State Department released its first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR). The QDDR represents nearly two years of effort by the Administration to examine how the State Department and USAID can become "more efficient, accountable, and effective" in the world of the 21st century.
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PHOTO GALLERY
Group photo of the workshop participants and IFES staff in Egypt
In cooperation with the Central Election Commission of Kosovo, IFES administered 14 alternative polling stations during the parliamentary elections on December 12, 2010. The parliamentary elections were Kosovo's first since declaring independence from Serbia in 2008.
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FIELD NOTEBOOK
Central part of Tbilisi, Georgia Living in Washington, DC exposes people to colleagues who have traveled all over the world for work. Yet, when I told my friends that for my second posting with IFES I would travel to Moldova, many looked at me as if I had suddenly given them a geography quiz, and they were failing. Moldova is a small country sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, and while it boasts the world's largest underground wine cellar and is known to be an agricultural breadbasket, it is still striving to establish its own identity.

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