The favourite to win is Alexander Uss, a jurist who is the speaker of the regional assembly, having been one of Lebed's sharpest critics.

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But the sharpest critics of the malpractices at the News of the World, such as the Labour leader Ed Miliband, have been calling for her head.

BBC: Big questions for News International

Even some of the sharpest critics of the brain-death criteria argue that there is no possibility that donors will be in pain during the harvesting of their organs.

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In the Cypriot banking crisis Germany was also one of the sharpest critics of the offshore model pursued by Cyprus, which attracted many rich Russians to the island and enabled them to avoid paying taxes at home.

BBC: Germany's Schaeuble welcomes data on global tax evasion

But hip hop's critics ignore how some of the sharpest criticism comes from within hip hop's borders.

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