21.   Analysts said the policy of secrecy will likely be costly in nationwide elections slated for July.

22.   Analysts say that with nationwide elections due in July, the LDP can ill afford such a buffer zone if it wants to avoid a humiliation at the polls.

23.   Balloting in nationwide union elections was extended one day on Friday due to the disappearance of voting materials, violent clashes between rival supporters, and allegations of fraud.

24.   Back in Moscow, the war and its daily casualties are attracting little attention in the buildup to nationwide parliamentary elections Sunday.

25.   Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic decided Wednesday not to defy the international community by running in nationwide elections in September.

26.   Brazilians vote in nationwide elections.

27.   Bosnians voted Saturday in nationwide elections to determine whether this war-ravaged country follows its Balkan neighbors and rejects ethnic parties that led them into war.

28.   But he said his party will take part in the nationwide elections considered crucial for the future of Bosnia.

29.   But the Bosnian peace accord hands a key role to OSCE, which should oversee the nationwide elections due by September.

30.   Clashes between rival party supporters and security forces on the last day of campaigning before nationwide elections left at least eight people dead, police said Saturday.