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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said he will delegate some of his sweeping powers to Parliament and to Government as he transforms his own leadership into a role he described as "supreme arbiter", RFE/RL reports. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Central Election Commission said that 80 percent of voters on December 11 supported constitutional amendments aimed at shifting some presidential powers to the prime minister. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As a new ruling coalition has been formed in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament and a new Cabinet has been approved by parliament, we are republishing this article originally published by EurasiaNet.org: Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A new majority coalition was formed in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on November 3, less than two weeks after the previous ruling coalition collapsed. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The parliament of Kyrgyzstan on November 2 by a majority of votes approved in the third and final reading the law setting the date for a national referendum on December 11 on controversial constitutional amendments. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — Politicians letting their personal interests prevail over ideological and public issues is a global phenomenon. Kyrgyzstan’s democratic parliament excels in it, and threatens what the system is meant for. A party with a perhaps controversial but daring and radical formula to get the country out of its economic deadlock would beyond doubt harvest success, on condition that once in power it decidedly proceeds. But such a party lacks ground in Kyrgyzstan’s current political life. Continue reading