26/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - The presidential elections planned for Chechnya on 29 August are "turning into a farce" declared the EPP-ED European Parliament group's president, Hans-Gert Pöttering in a press statement. The latter called on the European Commission and the Council of the EU to question president Putin on the matter. The CDU MEP pointed out that the central electoral commission had recorded seven candidates but that it had already excluded two of them: Sura Magomadowa (giving...