Thursday, December 08, 2005

Kazakhstan - no surprise result

After 15 years in power President Nursultan Nazarbaev, 65, has won another 7 years in office in Kazakhstan. The observers from the OSCE are convinced the elections were not fair while Russian CIS monitors felt they were. Will he now go on and on ?.

One key problem with Post Soviet 'managed democracy' is that it has a hard time arranging a change of leaders, even if it avoids a colour revolution more from EurasiaNet...

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