Kazakhstan - heading for Tense Parliamentary Vote after Zhanaozen Violence

13.01.2012
    By Joanna Lillis     Voters in Kazakhstan will head to the polls on January 15 in a parliamentary election that is sure to be the tensest in the country’s two decades of independence.     The governing Nur Otan party, headed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, is currently the only party represented in parliament, and seems...