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Georgia votes in parliamentary polls Monday with President Mikheil Saakashvili's party facing a billionaire-led opposition in a test of the ex-Soviet state's democracy overshadowed by a torture scandal.

• 27 сентября 2012, 16:51

Spanish riot police fired rubber bullets and baton-charged protesters Tuesday as thousands rallied near parliament in Madrid in anger at the economic crisis, in clashes that left more than 60 people injured.

• 26 сентября 2012, 17:34

How can we talk about a Eurasian Parliament, if we have not fully settled the work of the Customs Union yet: Kazakhstan President's Advisor.

• 20 сентября 2012, 14:38

Belarus will on Sunday elect a new parliament in polls largely boycotted by the opposition, almost two years after protests against President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election sparked a mass crackdown.

• 19 сентября 2012, 18:48

A conservative Australian senator was forced to resign from his parliamentary role on Wednesday after he linked same-sex marriage to bestiality and polygamy during a debate.

• 19 сентября 2012, 16:42

Libya's parliament chief announced on Sunday the arrests of some 50 people over the killing of US ambassador Chris Stevens in an attack he said was planned, although Washington said it was spontaneous.

• 18 сентября 2012, 12:14

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica said Wednesday that if parliament were to pass a groundbreaking bill allowing the state to sell marijuana, drug tourism would not be allowed.

• 07 сентября 2012, 10:25

Kazakhstan Senate speaker Kairat Mami has had talks with chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Karl Lamers.

• 04 сентября 2012, 16:58

Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament was set to convene on Tuesday in defiance of the powerful military following a decree by newly elected President Mohamed Morsi to reinstate the assembly.

• 11 июля 2012, 10:47

Majilis speaker Nurlan Nigmatulin met with the delegation of American parliamentarians led by Dan Burton.

• 03 июля 2012, 10:46

I used them in my apartment for a whole year. I put them in all rooms, but I haven't registered any saving: Majilis deputy Maira Aissina.

• 12 июня 2012, 13:37

April 25 President Nazarbayev met Sergei Naryshkin, Head of the Russia’s State Duma.

• 26 апреля 2012, 07:20

Draft law for prevention of tortures and other harsh, inhuman or humiliating treatment or punishments has been submitted to the Majilis.

• 20 апреля 2012, 11:08

Kazakhstan reshuffles its government and governors, eliminates one ministry and transforms two other agencies.

• 22 января 2012, 16:36

The eldest Majilis deputy, first secretary of the Communist Party Vladislav Kossarev, is 74 years old.

• 20 января 2012, 14:48

Russian expert Aleksey Vlassov talked about priority tasks that have to be set for the new Majilis.

• 19 января 2012, 11:21

On January 15 the prosecutor’s office received 536 requests, 63 of them referred to violations at the elections to the parliament's Majilis, and 472 – at elections to Maslikhats.

• 19 января 2012, 10:35

The first two include social modernization and industrial and innovative development of the country. President also stressed the importance of the elections.

• 18 января 2012, 17:44

We look forward to engaging with the new multi-party Parliament as we continue our cooperation with the government and people of Kazakhstan: Department of State.

• 17 января 2012, 16:05

Voter turnout in Zhanaozen made 63.6 percent.

• 16 января 2012, 17:21