President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party won Sunday's snap election with 80.74% of the vote, according to early results released Monday. Two other parties also looked set to make it into parliament by winning just over the minimum 7% of the vote.
President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party was poised to win Sunday's election by a landslide as the prospects for an effective opposition seemed bleak despite violent clashes between security forces and oil workers that shook the country last month.
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Kazakhstan ignored international condemnation on Sunday and threatened protesters with live ammunition, in the wake of the deaths of 15 people in clashes triggered by protests over the sacking of oil workers in the western region of Mangistau.
Hundreds of angry demonstrators in western Kazakhstan hit the streets of their regional capital Aktau on Sunday after the total death toll from violence related to an oil-workers’ strike in the area rose to 14.
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered a state of emergency in the western town of Zhanaozen Saturday after violent clashes between police and laid-off oil workers left at least 10 people dead.
Ten people were killed Friday when striking oil workers clashed with police during celebrations in the Kazakh city of Zhanaozen to mark 20 years of independence from the Soviet Union. Workers have been striking for months to demand higher wages.
Three astronauts were safely brought back to Earth Tuesday after spending nearly six months on the International Space Station. Their Soyuz capsule landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan shortly before sunrise.
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev (pictured) on Wednesday issued a decree dissolving parliament and calling a snap election for January, in an attempt to broaden parliamentary representation and project a democratic image.
The leaders of China, Russia and Iran have gathered in Kazakhstan for a yearly meeting on regional security. All eyes are on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was absent from last year’s summit.
