2011

Kazakh President Suggests Staying In Power Until 2030

19 Apr

Events and opinions

2722

Kazakh President Suggests Staying In Power Until 2030

ASTANA -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev said today at the Assembly of Peoples of Kazakhstan that he wants to remain in power until 2030, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. Nazarbaev, 70, said ... read more..

Kazakh president holds fast as Arab revolutions topple others

15 Apr

Events and opinions

2825

Kazakh president holds fast as Arab revolutions topple others

ASTANA, Kazakhstan — The tempests that have whirled through other authoritarian states dissipated well before reaching this Muslim country, where last week citizens effusively thanked their president ... read more..

Nursultan Nazarbayev is eternal but, still, who comes after him?

13 Apr

Events and opinions

2853

Nursultan Nazarbayev is eternal but, still, who comes after him?

WHILE demonstrators in north Africa and the Middle East are standing up to one-man rule in their countries, great numbers of people in Kazakhstan thronged to the polls on April 3rd to vote for an auth... read more..

13 Apr

Events and opinions

3011

Kulibayev named Samruk-Kazyna head

(SRI) - Timur Kulibayev, the billionaire son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, has on Tuesday been named head of the state-owned investment and holding company Samruk-Kazyna. Kulibay read more..

12 Apr

Events and opinions

2616

Kazakhstan's fictional democracy

Nursultan Nazarbayev, the "victor" in Kazakhstan's recent presidential election with 95 percent of the vote, claimed on this page April 1 that his country has a democratic destiny. Unfortunately, N... read more..

Why do even popular dictators steal elections?

09 Apr

Events and opinions

2622

Why do even popular dictators steal elections?

Nursultan Nazarbayev is a popular guy. By all accounts, the approval ratings for the president of Kazakhstan would be the envy of most democratically elected leaders. A poll conducted last year indica... read more..

09 Apr

Events and opinions

2761

The Father of Kazakhstan

Last Sunday, in another election with no genuine opponents, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan won in a landslide. Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe cite... read more..

05 Apr

Events and opinions

2683

Azerbaijani police break up pro-democracy rally

Riot police staged a show of force in the capital of ex-Soviet Azerbaijan on Saturday to stop an unauthorised pro-democracy rally and detained dozens of protesters who defied the ban. Police with b... read more..

05 Apr

Events and opinions

2680

Nervöser Nasarbajew verordnet seinem Volk eine Blitzwahl

Alle reden über Gaddafi, die übrigen Autokraten nutzen die günstige Gelegenheit. So lässt Nursultan Nasarbajew, Herrscher in Kasachstan, sich schnell noch einmal wählen. Seine Gegner sind reine Zählka... read more..

05 Apr

Events and opinions

3157

Zentralasiens Gerontokraten suchen Erben

Zentralasiatische Autokraten werden allmählich alt. Kasachstans Präsident Nasarbajew wurde zwar am Sonntag im Amt bestätigt, doch wie bei den Herrschern in den Nachbarstaaten steht eine Hofübergabe in... read more..

05 Apr

Events and opinions

2584

Nursultan Nazarbayev: Kazakhstan's 'Great Balancer'

Lady Thatcher praised Nursultan Nazarbayev for "moving from Communism to Thatcherism" when she visited him in 1991, so impressed was she with policies that helped the Kazakh ruler pull in £75 billion ... read more..

05 Apr

Events and opinions

2457

Kazakh strongman scores landslide election win

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev scored a crushing win Monday in presidential polls that saw him harvest over 95 percent of votes and raised worries about democracy in Central Asia's richest stat... read more..

05 Apr

Events and opinions

2664

Kazakh hails win, OSCE urges more reform

(Reuters) - Kazakhstan's veteran leader Nursultan Nazarbayev celebrated his landslide re-election on Monday but Europe's main monitoring mission said the vote was marred by irregularities and pressed read more..

05 Apr

Events and opinions

2678

International monitors slam Kazakh vote

(AP) —Kazakhstan's longtime leader overwhelmingly won re-election in a vote sharply criticized Monday by international monitors who cited numerous cases of ballot box-stuffing, voter intimidation and read more..

04 Apr

Events and opinions

2553

Opposition needed in parliament - PM

(Reuters) * Opposition set to gain parliamentary seats in 2012 * PM says education, hope key to avoiding Arab-style unrest * Raises GDP growth forecast to over 6 percent * Institutional reforms read more..

04 Apr

Events and opinions

2425

In Kazakh heartland, support for leader unwavering

(Reuters) - Voters will flock to the polls in the Kazakh farming community of Aksu-Ayuly on Sunday with one thing in mind: to extend the rule of their veteran leader for five more years. With 70-ye read more..

04 Apr

Events and opinions

2617

Kazakstan votes for president amid Western concern

(AFP) - Kazakhstan is voting in a mostly ceremonial election that is set to stretch President Nurusltan Nazarbayev’s rule into a third decade amid Western worries about democracy in the resource-rich read more..

04 Apr

Events and opinions

2385

Kazakh leader set for easy re-election

(Reuters) - Kazakhstan’s veteran President Nursultan Nazarbayev is poised to win another five years in charge of his oil-rich Central Asian state after a snap election on Sunday devoid of any challeng read more..

30 Mar

Events and opinions

2772

Global Insights: Fair Election Key to Kazakhstan's Future

Kazakhstan's oil and gas reserves, as well as its pivotal location, make it of strategic importance to the United States and its allies. But in the run-up to Kazakhstan's presidential election later t... read more..

30 Mar

Events and opinions

2703

ANALYSIS-Successor question looms after Kazakh election

* Successor choice -- "old guard" versus new managers? * Nazarbayev to retain power * Nazarbayev's stability appeals to Western investors ALMATY, March 28 (Reuters) - When he secures another five read more..

18 Mar

Events and opinions

2692

Aliyev stirs up Kazakhs with land-lease claim

Kazakhstani people are generally not prone to air their political views in public. This is partly due to apathy, a fact regularly deplored by activists, and to some extent to fear of what the conseque... read more..

Kazakh homeowners hold rare large-scale protest

16 Mar

Events and opinions

2779

Kazakh homeowners hold rare large-scale protest

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Several hundred people rallied Tuesday near Kazakhstan's presidential palace to urge the government to assist homeowners battling repossessions, and a few dozen were detained... read more..

Now Blair and Andrew have a mutual interest

15 Mar

Events and opinions

2871

Now Blair and Andrew have a mutual interest

The Duke of York is not alone in his fondness for Kazakhstan, the country whose president's son-in-law bought his hideous house, Sunninghill, for £3 million above the asking price. The gold-digge... read more..

Andy's femme fatale fixer: Duke of York's close friend has love child by a despot's son-in-law and went wolf-hunting with Saif Gaddafi

15 Mar

Events and opinions

2782

Andy's femme fatale fixer: Duke of York's close friend has love child by a despot's son-in-law and went wolf-hunting with Saif Gaddafi

Dogged by his controversial friendship with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — not to mention his connections with despotic regimes from Libya to Azerbaijan — Prince Andrew knew just who to tu... read more..

11 Mar

Events and opinions

3487

Five Kazakhs on Forbes billionaires list

(SRI) - Five Kazakh businessmen, led by Kazakhmys chairman Vladimir Kim, have made this year's Forbes list of world billionaires. Kim, the 50-year old head and largest shareholder of Kazakh coppe read more..

11 Mar

Events and opinions

2729

Kazakhstan: Turnout Looms as Biggest Presidential Election Question

President Nursultan Nazarbayev is expecting to face three weak challengers in a snap election on April 3, a contest that he is certain to win. The biggest question surrounding the upcoming election is... read more..

Kazakh opposition launches 'Don't Vote' campaign

04 Mar

Events and opinions

2943

Kazakh opposition launches 'Don't Vote' campaign

Kazakhstan's leading opposition party will on Friday launch a nationwide campaign urging people not to vote in the forthcoming presidential election. As the campaign starts without a genuine riva... read more..

Kazakh president pushing ENRC and Kazakhmys into 'People's IPOs'

03 Mar

Events and opinions

3018

Kazakh president pushing ENRC and Kazakhmys into 'People's IPOs'

Kazakhstan's president is pushing FTSE 100 miners Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) and Kazakhmys into listing some of their shares on the country's stock exchange in growing signs of stat... read more..

Duke of York risks losing ambassador role because of Timur Kulibayev and Saif Gaddafi

03 Mar

Events and opinions

4603

Duke of York risks losing ambassador role because of Timur Kulibayev and Saif Gaddafi

Let us imagine, for a moment, that Britain's special representative for international trade and investment is not Prince Andrew. Would that person still be in the job if he behaved as the fourth ... read more..

Transactions suspectes du clan Nazarbaïev en Suisse

02 Mar

Events and opinions

3277

Transactions suspectes du clan Nazarbaïev en Suisse

Des documents, mis en circulation par des ennemis politiques du clan au pouvoir au Kazakhstan, montrent que des centaines de millions, qui auraient été blanchis par le gendre du président, auraient tr... read more..

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