Kazakh Veteran Leader Calls Snap Presidential Poll on April 26

Kazakhstan's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on Wednesday called an early presidential election in the oil-producing Central Asian state on April 26. The election is widely seen as intended to give him another five years at the helm of Central Asia's largest economy though he said in a televised address that he would decide later whether to run. “In the interests of the people, taking into account their appeal to me and their united will ... I made a decision and signed a...

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