 | WHY NOT HIM? Analysts tipped opposition leader Yevgeny Shevchuk as the man who could beat Smirnov. So why didn't he run for president? Here, he explains. [more] |  | | |  | AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION once existed on the left bank of the Dniester. Find out how, for more than 5,000 years, the river formed an international border between two separate and very distinct cultures. [more] |
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President Igor Smirnov casting a vote for independence in Tiraspol, 17 September 2006
This photo is from the following article:By mid-afternoon Sunday, Pridnestrovie's central election commission declared the country's independence referendum valid. With a preliminary turnout of 58.8% by 3:00 p.m., the plebiscite passed the fifty percent barrier imposed by the Constitution. 174 international observers and 215 journalists are monitoring the vote. [more]
