Kazakhstan's president appears certain to win a new term against little-known challengers in a snap election on Sunday. Five candidates are on the ballot against President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ...

The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan on Sunday will hold an early presidential election to choose the successor to Nursultan Nazarbayev, the country’s one and only post-Cold War leader ...

Kazakhstan is conducting an early presidential election on April 26, which is no surprise. In fact, none of the events surrounding this snap presidential poll is surprising. With the possible ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — The police detained about 500 people in Kazakhstan on Sunday who were protesting a presidential election that they called undemocratic, with the outcome all but certain.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan – International monitors sharply criticized Kazakhstan's presidential election Monday, citing numerous cases of ballot box-stuffing, voter intimidation and a lack of transparency.

On November 5, Kazakhstan expanded its experiment with local elections to include three towns and 42 provincial districts. Residents of these districts and cities voted for akims, a position akin ...

Kazakhstan’s trumpeted full embrace of democratic values has turned out more of a damp squib than a grand fanfare. Passivity was the prevailing mood in the country’s largest city, Almaty, during snap ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Nobody can accuse Lukpan Akhmedyarov of being a system candidate. His campaign video ahead of March 19 parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan details his journey through ...

Kazakhstan Elections: The vote, which he is likely to win, will cut his current term, but will give him a longer second term after a recent constitutional reform in the oil-rich Central Asian ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Voters in Kazakhstan head to the polls for a snap parliamentary election on Sunday with an opportunity to send some genuine opposition voices to the Mazhilis, the lower house ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kazakhstan’s president has called for snap elections this year and announced plans to limit the president ...