Kazakh Leader Wins in Much Criticized Vote
Nursultan Nazarbayev, the steely potentate who has ruled mineral-rich Kazakhstan since the Soviet era, was reelected president Sunday in an election that Western observers described as a sham because a leading challenger was thrown out of the race.
Washington Post, January 12 1999

Soviet-Era Kazakh President In Big Poll Win
Kazakhstan's Soviet-era leader claimed an overwhelming victory Monday in its first contested presidential election, securing seven more years in charge of the vast Central Asian state.
Reuters, 11 January 1999

Business hails Kazakh poll, urges reforms
The re-election of veteran Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev to a new seven-year term will help ensure stability in his resource-rich Central Asian state but he must speed up reforms, analysts and investors said on Monday.
Reuters, 11 January 1999

Rubin on Kazakh Election
11 January 1999

Report
on Kazakstan's Presidential Election, January 10, 1999
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Kazakhstan-Result Astana
Commission head Zagipa Baliyeva told reporters that preliminary figures put Nazarbayev well ahead of his closest rival. Communist Party leader Serikbolsyn Abdildin was second with 13.
Reuters, 10 January 1999

Kazakhstan leader shrugs off criticism of poll
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev said he was confident of winning Sunday's presidential poll and shrugged off international criticism of the election process in his vast ex-Soviet state.
Reuters, 10 January 1999

Kazakhstan: Leader certain to win one-horse race
There is little doubt in anyone's mind who is going to win tomorrow's presidential elections, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the 58-year-old leader of Kazakhstan since Soviet times, dominates the election campaign.
Finantial Times, 9 January 1999

Kazakstan Weathers Worst of Turmoil
ALMATY, Kazakstan - The key Central Asian state of Kazakstan has weathered the worst of the global financial crisis, and international bankers think this Western Europe-sized country will keep plugging ahead, despite charges of a rigged presidential election due on Sunday…
The Wall Street Journal, 8 January 1999

Human Rights Watch on elections in Kazakhstan
On Wednesday, four days before the elections of Kazakhstan president, the American human rights monitors have expressed their doubt as to their fair and square character.
Vremya po Grinvichu, 8 January 1999

Chronicle of elections
Vremya po Grinvichu, 8 January 1999

Briefs on presidential candidates
This Sunday, 10 January, 8 million voters will express their will at the first since 1991 president elections in Kazakhstan.
Vremya po Grinvichu, 8 January 1999

Serkibolsyn Abdildin: Elections in Kazakhstan are illegitimate
To-date, presidential candidate and left opposition leader Serkibolsyn Abdildin held in Almaty a round-up pre-election press-conference for the Kazakhstan and foreign pressmen.
8 January 1999

Nazarbayev defies accusations of Kazakh democrats on the eve of elections
In his written interview to the France Press Agency, Nazarbayev stated that he came out in favor of forming a multi-party system, electivity of the local government structures and the independent mass media as the fundamentals of democratic principles. He warned, however, that this kind of reforms in the former Soviet Central Asian republic had to be introduced step by step.
Vremya po Grinvichu, 8 January 1999

Kazakhstan’s presidential campaign found grossly unfair
Coercion, threats and the repression of opposition activists have characterized the presidential election campaign in Kazakhstan, Human Rights Watch charged today.
January 5 1999

How much has been spent for the president's campaign?
January  1999

EU exacts democratic elections in Kazakhstan
The German embassy, in charge of the EU Almaty board, informs of the 17 December statement by the Austrian EU representatives at the OSCE permanent council in relation to early 10 January elections in Kazakhstan
Panorama, 25 December 1998

Congress of the United States
Appeal to the President
Congress of the United States, 8 December 1998

Mr. Nazarbayev sheds his gentlemanly reputation
The president of Kazakhstan has repeatedly assured U.S. administration dignitaries that the January 10, 1999 elections will be fair and square. At the end of the day, though, the Americans woke up to having been hoodwinked all along.
The Central Asian Bulletin, December 6 1998

Is 90 Percent of Vote Suspicious? Charge Puzzles Kazakh Leader
The New York Times, December 6 1998

OSCE calls on Kazakhstan to postpone election
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has urged the government of Kazakhstan to postpone a presidential election set for January 10, citing bans imposed on two opposition candidates.By Mike Collett-White
Eastern, 4 December 1998

USA criticize Kazakhstan for disqualifying Kazhegeldin
25 November, USA criticized the decision of Supreme Court of Kazakhstan to disqualify Nursultan Nazarbayev's most serious challenge from running. The decision, though in accord with the amends to Law on elections, contradicts the international commitments of Kazakhstan as OSCE member state, - said spokesman for the US State Department James Rubin.
Vremya po Grinvichu, 27 November 1998

Supreme Court of Kazakhstan not allowed Kazhegeldin's appeal
The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan announced last Tuesday that former PM Akezhan Kazhegeldin will not be allowed to take part in January 1999 presidential election and confirmed the previously made judgement of the RK Central Electoral Commission.
Vremya po Grinwichu, 25 November 1998

Statement by US Department of State, Office of Spokesman, James Rubin
Kazakhstan: Supreme Court Confirms former PM Kazhegeldin disqualified from running
25 November 1998

Image is Nothing. Craving for Power is Everything
Sergei Duvanov describes developments in Kazakhstan: "The authorities preferred not to tempt the fate and, so as not to take chances, decided to strike Kazhegeldin off the ballot”.
451 po Farengeitu, November 1998.

Decision of the Medeu (Almaty) district court
in relation to citizen Akezhan Kazhegeldin
18 November, 1998

Glimpses of presidential candidates’ views
Quotes from statements
Dat, November 13, 1998

Kazakhstan - Election - Satarov
Georgy Satarov comments on the current pre-election situation in Kazakhstan.
November, 1998

Kazakhstan's Empty Election
Mr. Nazarbayev is a thinly disguised dictator who stages elections he has no chance of losing. Few Western leaders complain because he is seen as the guarantor of stability in an oil-rich nation.
The New York Times, November 9, 1998

Mr. KNB Major-General, are You an Honorable Man?
As the fall has set in, we are in for elections, while “canards” have taken wing.
Yarmarka, 5 November 1998

Power Begins the Offensive on the Country's Presidential Hopefuls
Chronicle of Recent Events.
Dat, 4 November, 1998.

Election in Kazakhstan Gets a Dose Of the West
"If the intended message is that Mr. Kazhegeldin, 46, a businessman and former Prime Minister, should drop out of next January's presidential election, he is not listening".
The American journalist view of the Kazakhstan pre-election campaign. New-York Times, 24 October 1998

Statement of the Kazakhstan Russian Community
Social survey performed by the Russian Community in Kazakhstan regarding the latest events connected with amendments to the Republic of Kazakhstan Constitution and with early election of the President of the Republic, evidence on diverse opinion of citizens to these events.
Russian Community in Kazakhstan, October 23, 1998

Why Nazarbayev is Afraid of the Honest Election?
23 October 1998

Akezhan Kazhegeldin is Sentenced by Court,
20 October 1998, Almaty

Glasnost is Remedy to All Trouble
Dat, 19 October 1998