4 Million Signatures Planned
Another update on the referendum to extend Nazarbayev’s term until 2010 On Dec 31, it was reported that the initiative group had collected 300,000 signatures.
Yesterday they announced that they had over 3 million signatures and planned to have 4 million by 11 Jan, when the period of collecting signatures ends.
Meanwhile, a group of journalists were detained by police while protesting the referendum in Uralsk.