European monitors have not deemed any Tajik presidential or parliamentary election to be free and fair.

It said Putin suggested European monitors should be sent to all parts of Ukraine because of the violence.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said details of the deployment of European monitors remained to be worked out.

Pro-Russian rebels paraded European monitors they are holding on Sunday, freeing one but saying they had no plans to release another seven.

He suggested European monitors should be sent to all parts of Ukraine because of the violence, which the Ukrainian authorities blame on pro-Russian groups.

Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine have freed a Swedish observer, but said they had no plans to release seven other European monitors they have been(...)