Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has rejected the idea of scrapping the next two elections and extending his term until 2020.

BBC: Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev rejects plan to scrap elections

With no mean skill, the Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, has used the Afghan war to play off the various bidders for influence in his country.

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In a U.S. Justice Department memo to Swiss police officials two years ago, however, some of those same accounts are identified as belonging to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazerbayef and his cronies.

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