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• Preliminary Results Are In

  It’s Nazarbayev with 95.5% of the vote Gani Kasymov 1.9% Zhambyl Akhmetbekov 1.4% Mels Yeleusizova 1.2% If you remember, exit polls had Nazarbayev with 95% and the others with 2.1%, 1.57%, and 1.44%, which has to be one of the most accurate exit polls ever. Official results will apparently be ready on the 9th of […]

  4/04/11 • (Comments Off on Preliminary Results Are In)

• 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 […]

  1/15/11 • (Comments Off on Elbasi Status Will Be Constitutional)

• Another Huffington Post Controversy

  The Kazakhstan Embassy has seen fit to respond to an article on Huffington post giving Kazakhstan a low midterm grade for its OSCE Chairmanship. Mr. Ardaq Adilet made a number of comments criticizing the article and these have been complied into a special report sent out by the Kazakhstan Embassy to the US. I always […]

  5/25/10 • (Comments Off on Another Huffington Post Controversy)

• OSCE Visits Zhovtis; Kazakhstan Disobeyed

  Eurasianet reports that an OSCE representative (Matteo Mecacci, senior member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Human Rights) went to see Yevgeniy Zhovtis, a human rights leader and head of the Bota NGO who was imprisoned earlier this year for vehicular manslaughter. Many have protested the government’s handling of the case, claiming that Zhovtis […]

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