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            <title><![CDATA[Many fear Trump will claim election fraud if Democrats win midterms]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has shut out European election observers and sought to limit mail-in voting ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. Some groups are increasingly concerned that Trump will claim election fraud, as he did in 2020. People still have vivid memories of the January 6 storming of Congress, says Kate Mason, a lawyer who works on election security in Michigan.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:10:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[US Bars Swedish Lawmakers From Observing Midterm Elections, Raising Concerns Over Precedent]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A Swedish delegation of eight people will not be allowed to observe the midterm elections in the US, which has banned international observers. This is a decision that stands out in many ways, says Håkan Svenneling (V), the new chair of the Riksdag’s OSCE delegation.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:37:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[OSCE observers not invited to monitor US congressional elections]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Election observers from the OSCE are not being invited to monitor the US congressional elections in November. "Regrettable," the organization writes in a statement.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:24:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Voting on Armenia's orientation concluded in high-profile parliamentary election]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Polls closed Sunday night in Armenia's high-profile parliamentary election. The big question is whether the country should move closer to the EU or return to close cooperation with Russia. Preliminary results are not expected until Monday, but early results show Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's ruling party leading by a clear margin.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:47:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Moldova Election: Pro-EU Party Wins Majority in Parliament]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It has been described as a fateful choice between a future path towards the west or increased Russian influence. When almost all votes have been counted in Moldova's parliamentary election, the pro-European PAS is on an unexpectedly strong own majority, 55 of 101 seats. The people have chosen "democracy, reforms and a European future", writes EU Council President António Costa.]]></description>
            <link>https://swedenherald.com/article/moldova-election-results-delayed-due-to-postal-votes</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Calm Election Day in Moldova Despite Tensions and Russian Influence]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Fears of problems on the important election day in Moldova have not been confirmed at the places that the Swedish election observer Linnéa Wickman has visited. There is a general vigilance. It is a tense day and a lot at stake, says Wickman who represents the European security organization OSSE.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:54:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Large-scale war exercise planned by Russia and Belarus]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia and Belarus will conduct a joint military exercise in September, representatives of the two neighboring countries announced on Thursday.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:12:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lavrov in the EU – first visit since the start of the war]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Malta for a meeting with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). It is the Foreign Minister's first visit to the EU since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lavrov to Malta – first EU visit since 2022]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is participating in the OSCE's meeting on Malta - his first visit to an EU country since the outbreak of war. Criticism is promised from Swedish colleague Maria Malmer Stenergard (The Moderate Party).]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:41:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Crack in Georgia's Top Leadership after the Election]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Georgia's President Salomé Zurabisjvili calls for protests after the disputed election where the pro-Russian ruling party Georgian Dream won. Prime Minister Irakli Garibasjvili however rejects the allegations of electoral fraud.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:12:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Barely EU Yes in Moldova Despite Russian Influence]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Moldova says yes to a future EU membership in a referendum. But the margin was minimal – and Russia is believed to have tried to influence the vote. We won fairly in an unfair fight, said President Maia Sandu.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:30:04 GMT</pubDate>
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