Kazakh Ruling Party to Nominate Presidential Candidate
(WorldNews France)

Kazakhstan`s ruling party will nominate its candidate for the June presidential election on Tuesday - the first time since the ex-Soviet republic`s independence not to feature national leader Nursultan Nazarbayev on the ballot. Nazarbayev, 78, shocked the oil-rich nation in March by calling time on his three-decade presidency and allowing loyalist Jomart-Kassym Tokayev to succeed him, initially on an interim basis. Tokayev subsequently announced a snap...