OSCE Report describes Nur Otan’s Election Advantages

    Kazakhstan’s ruling Nur Otan Party is benefitting from certain advantages in the run-up to the January 15 parliamentary elections, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in a January 6 interim election report.     In a “muted” campaign overshadowed by the deadly December 16 rioting in Zhanaozen, “the...