Scandals Increase Tensions Ahead Of Controversial Elections In Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan – Analysis

By Bruce Pannier

(RFE/RL) -- Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are holding elections on January 10, the results of which will inevitably be unpopular with segments of the two countries’ populations before and after election day.

Kazakhstan’s Nur-Otan party, created in 1999 to keep Nursultan Nazarbaev in power and still headed...