The leader of Ak Zhol Party does not agree with the OSCE/ODIHR observer mission's assessment on parliamentary elections. "Whatever they say, they treat our country as something strange to them," Peruashev said on 16 January. CIS Parliamentary Assembly...

In Ust Kamenogorsk members of the All-National Social Democratic Party of Kazakhstan deserted the party ranks. 30 ex- members attacked the party authorities' policy valuating their membership as futureless. The members who deserted the party ranks announced...