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04-17-2006
Dateline: MOSCOW
Voters in two Siberian provinces overwhelmingly approved a merger that is part of an effort by the Russian leadership to consolidate control over the vast nation, electoral authorities said Monday.

Nearly 90 percent of voters in the Irkutsk region and just under 98 percent in the much smaller Ust-Ordyn Buryat autonomous district supported reunification of the two administrative areas in a referendum Sunday, the election commission in Irkutsk, 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles) east of Moscow, said on its Web site, citing preliminary figures.

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