One bright spot,observers say, is Greece's election victory by Prime Minister George Papandreou last year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Military observers say Mr.Medvedev's rearmament program is designed in part to offset dissatisfaction in the ranks with a Kremlin plan to downsize Russia's armed forces.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Observers say such stories are fueling Turkish public outrage over Israel's seizing the six ships.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

Observers say that's causing public outrage against bankers that could boost the campaign.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Electoral observers say that Sunday's vote appeared to draw a big turn-out.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

The media and political observers have spent a lot of time examining Mister Obama's first one hundred days in office.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

The National Democratic Institute was one of the leading groups of election observers who validated President Abdallahi's 2007 election.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Observers note the first week commemoration of Montazeri's death Sunday will coincide with the marking of the solemn Ashoura holiday.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

Whatever the outcome of Sunday's ballot, observers have warned that nationalist tensions are expected to remain in the region for some time to come.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

About 3,000 foreign election observers declared that, despite a few irregularities, the first round of Ukraine's presidential election on January 17 met international standards for honesty.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Arab electoral observers monitored more than 300 of Mauritania's 2,500 polling stations.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

The head of the country's Free and Fair Election Foundation, Nader Nadery,tells VOA his group's observers reported that the two men were attacked by the Taliban on Election Day.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

Hawkings and other analysts caution political observers not to read too much into Tuesday's results, because there are still more than five months to go until the November elections.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Widespread fraud marred the August 20 presidential election, and international observers have voiced concern about the country's ability to hold a new election in such a short amount of time.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

One of the American observers, former U.S.Senator Gary Hart, praises the millions of voters who defied what he calls " a small group of cowardly people in the shadows who hate democracy."

VOA: standard.2009.08.22