In 2006, Bakiyev faced a political crisis as thousands of people demonstrated in a series of protests in Bishkek.

Since 2006, the NBA has faced Euroleague teams in exhibition matches in the NBA Europe Live Tour and since 2009 in the Euroleague American Tour.

They faced each other in a runoff on 29 January 2006, where Halonen was re-elected with 51. 8 % of the vote against Mr. Niinistö's 48. 2 %.

In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites " The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country.

The Bank faced increasing competition in Latin America from private capital markets, where the IBRD held $ 36. 3 billion in loans in fiscal year 2006, due to mixed views on the stipulations of environmental protection and protection against the uprooting of indigenous populations attached to the Bank's lending.

From 2006 onwards, the economy faced problems of growing inflation and current account deficits.

The artist Zhang Xiaogang sold a 1993 painting for US $ 2. 3 million in 2006, which included blank faced Chinese families from the Cultural Revolution era, while Yue Minjun's work Execution in 2007 was sold for a then record of nearly $ 6 million at Sotheby's.

The move has been widely seen as indicating that the two parties will take part in the 2006 general election, particularly as they have faced considerable pressure from party members to participate.

In January 2006, the company was put up for sale but failed to find any buyers, likely due to the fact that Erbitux by that time faced significant competition in the medical marketplace.

Savannah State originally applied for membership into the MEAC in 2006 but faced an NCAA probationary period soon after.

In the Finals, the Mercury faced the defending 2006 champions Detroit Shock.

The next week they faced Sydney at the MCG, for the first time since 2006.

On October 2, 2006, Lebanon was the focus of a study of rural flight, as local farmer Randall Warner was featured in a New York Times story about the problems faced by communities such as Lebanon.

This impressive concrete faced monument featured a fine bronze letters, plaque and related inscription summarising the site's history from 1907 – 57 and was originally located at the North end of the aerodrome, was designated as a Scheduled Monument in 2002 then relocated and restored in a new position just east of the River Wey on the museum site to make way for the new Mercedes-Benz World complex which opened in 2006.

Shortly thereafter, Hasselhoff attended the May 26, 2006, Mavericks home playoff game where they faced the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Western Conference Finals.

" Episode 204 " ( 2006 ): Featured speed dating as one of the challenges faced by the " geeks ".

In a 2006 report the British anti-poverty charity War on Want criticised the conditions faced by Kenyan workers supplying Sainsbury's with cut flowers.

In January 2006, as Kennedy faced allegations of a drink problem, Gidley was one of 11 members of the front-bench team to write to Kennedy asking him to resign.

* 2006, the Canadian playwright Andrew Moodie wrote a play called The Real McCoy, which portrays McCoy's life, the challenges he faced as an African American, and the development of his inventions.

Even before the negative influence on public opinion caused by the 2006 backdating scandal, use of options faced various criticisms.

WWASPS has faced widespread allegations of physical and psychological abuse of the teenagers sent into its programs, resulting in a lawsuit filed against the organization in 2006.

On June 28, 2006, St. Johnsville faced its worst flood in a hundred years.

In 2006 Nancey Murphy, a religious scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary, stated she faced a campaign to get her fired after she expressed her view that intelligent design was not only poor theology, but " so stupid, I don't want to give them my time.

It was published five days a week from September 2006 to September 2009, when it closed faced with competition from other free papers.

In the 2006 – 07 season, Dortmund unexpectedly faced serious relegation trouble for the first time in years.

The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.

* Jack Billion ( born 1939 ), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota

This secession was announced on 9 July 2006, as the " Democratic Republic of Bakassi ".

In April 2006, the Chadian rebel group United Front for Democratic Change, which is based in Darfur used C. A. R.

In 2006 Transparency International ranked the Democratic Republic of the Congo 156 out of 163 countries in the Corruption Perception Index, tying Bangladesh, Chad, and Sudan with a 2. 0 rating.

* Americans for Democratic Action – 15 % for 2006

It was reported that in January 2006 a Saint Kitts & Nevis flagged cargo ship loaded with vehicles and parts meant for the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo was seized while in port within Equatorial Guinea.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

Reeko Ibrahim remained in self-imposed exile, returning to Maldives only in 2006 and has since registered a political party, Social Democratic Party.

In April 2006, Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj was elected as a Democratic Party chairman by the two step elections of the party.

The Left Party ( then the Party of Democratic Socialism ) has had several years of experience as a junior coalition partner in two federal states — Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — where it co-governed until 2006 with the Social Democratic Party.

In Sweden, the Social Democratic Party held power from 1936 to 1976, 1982 to 1991, and 1994 to 2006.

The latest elections took place on 17 June 2006, where leftist Smer won elections with 29. 14 % ( around 670 000 votes ) of the popular vote and formed coalition with Slota's Slovak National Party and Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia.

In late 2006 a centre-left political alliance called Left and Democrats was created, comprising SLD and smaller centre-left parties, the Labour Union, the Social Democratic Party of Poland, and the liberal Democratic Party – demokraci. pl.

Professor Léopold Gnininvi of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples ( CDPA ) was appointed on 20 September 2006.

In 2006, crumbling infrastructure and lack of spare parts for generators and coal mining lead to Zimbabwe importing 40 % of its power-100 megawatts from the Democratic Republic of Congo, 200 megawatts from Mozambique, up to 450 from South Africa, and 300 megawatts from Zambia.

In 2006, the UP joined the SLD, SDPL and the liberal Democratic Party – demokraci. pl to form an electoral alliance of centre and centre-left parties, named Left and Democrats ( LiD ), for the upcoming local government elections.

On December 2, 2006, the Humanist Democratic Centre proposed adopting a new timetable for the phase-out.

On October 29, 2006, Judd appeared at a " Women for Ford " event for Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. She has also campaigned extensively locally and nationally for a variety of Democratic candidates, including President Barack Obama in critical swing states.

At the April 2006 elections, Apulia gave about 51. 54 % of its votes to Silvio Berlusconi, and at the April 2008 election Apulians gave about 47 % of their votes to the People of Freedom-led coalition, eleven points more than to the Democratic Party-led coalition.

Many members of the Albanian NLA, led by Ali Ahmeti, later formed the Democratic Union for Integration, a political party that won the majority of the Albanian votes in the 2002 election and formed part of the ruling coalition along with SDSM and LDP until August 2006 when, following July 2006 parliamentary elections, a conservative VMRO-DPMNE / DPA coalition came to government.