Topic: Central Asia

Hundreds protest election results in Kazakhstan

Hundreds protest election results in Kazakhstan Weeks after a parliamentary election that international observers criticized as unfair and ...
On the campaign trail ... Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, wearing a scarf of the Nur Otan party. Photograph: Reuters . Kazakhstan, a...

Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan

Press Statement . . . We welcome the monitoring of the parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in...

'Bride kidnapping' won't be stopped by mere words

0 View Larger Image . On her final full day in office, President Roza Otunbayeva of Kyrgyzstan became the first senior Kyrgyz official to ...

Kyrgyzstan's ruling coalition collapses

0 . Kyrgyzstan's fragile ruling coalition has collapsed one day after a new president took office, in a development that will lead to a new round...

Kyrgyzstan swears in new president

0 . Kyrgyzstan inaugurated a new president Thursday in the first peaceful transition of power in the former Soviet Central Asian nation.. ...
By Raushan Nurshayeva. . ASTANA — Kazakhstan's Senate approved on Thursday tougher laws on religious activity in the Central Asian state, ignoring...
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Kazakhstan's presidential polls open

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev casts his ballot in the election he is widely expected to win amid criticism from the opposition.....
REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Pool/Alexei Druzhinin. Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a piece of excavation as he visits the site of the...