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Tag archive for ‘Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the OSCE’

  • Elbasi Status Will Be Constitutional

    Slightly ignored in the fuss over the referendum, yesterday’s vote in a joint session of Parliament also approved an amendment to enshrine Nazarbayev’s status as Leader of the Nation [RUS]. Parliamentarian Rakhmet Mukashev said, interestingly enough, that the term Elbasi (Leader of the Nation) already exists in the Kazakh text of the Constitution. Earlier last […]