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Observers from Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Belarus, Kazakstan and Republic of Croatia met with several obsatcles in their attempt to enter Ukraine before the presidential election.(26-DEC-04).
 

4th International Film Festival “Human Rights in Film” organized by The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights took place in Warsaw between December 10th  and 15th, 2004. The main themes of the 4th Festival were the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea, faces of terrorism, Latin America, incarceration institutions, discrimination against sexual minorities, refugees, Tibet, Palestine – Israel and the Holocaust. (21-DEC-04)

On December 9, in the building of  Swedish parliament the ceremony of rewarding the premium for the ” Right Livelihood Award ” 2004 has passed. There were three members of the International Society “Memorial” among the winners. (21-DEC-04)
 

The lower house of the Russian parliament – the State Duma – gave first-reading approval to the draft bill “On Countering Terrorism” on Friday, 17 December. (21-DEC-04)
 

“Although the general climate was calm, open and friendly the delegation of Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the CE observed a number of serious irregularities the nature of which could prejudice the electoral process”, said the Head of the delegation Vim Van Geldera, who monitored elections about in 80 polling stations (20 DEC 2004).
 

 – The concrete recommendations on improvement of the laws on status and financial base of  municipalities have not been taken into account, says the special  Secretary General of the Council of Europe in the Republic of Azerbaijan, Mats Lindberg, in an interview with TURAN. – People elected to municipalities should certainly have new status. It is meaningless to elect people if they would not have any authorities Lindberg states. (20-DEC-04).
 

“Although the general climate was calm, open and   friendly the delegation of Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the   CE observed a number of serious irregularities the nature of which could   prejudice the electoral process”, said the Head of the   delegation Vim Van Geldera, who monitored elections about in 80 polling stations. (20 DEC 2004)

In her article, One more falsified election in Republic of Azerbaijan: Municipal elections , the Azerbaijani human rights activist Shahla Ismayilova describes how the municipality elections were falsified in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Today, the reality shows that the word “elections” causes sad smile in the Republic of Azerbaijan society. Our country has great experience of monitoring the fraudulent elections in the past 10 years, the top of which was during the presidential elections. We had the whole pack of horror last year – from roundabout voting up to severe street battles. (20-DEC-2004)

The municipal elections were held in the Republic of Azerbaijan on 17 December, 2004.  38,041 candidates ran for 21622 places in 2732 municipalities. 95 % of candidates were men, 5 % – women. 35.5 % of candidates are people who are younger than 40, 39.8 % are people who are at age of 40 to 50, 17.4 % – of 50 to 60 and 3 % of candidates are ones who are older than 60.  (19-DEC-2004)