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Kazakh ruling party scores landslide win

The ruling party of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was declared the landslide winner Monday of snap polls in which two nominally-opposition groups won parliament seats for the first time.

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Emergency declared in Kazakhstan

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev declared a state of emergency Saturday, one day after deadly riots broke out in the oil city of Zhanaozen.

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Kazakh Money in Congress?

It has all the twists of a Hollywood blockbuster: shadowy international figures, a plot to overthrow an oil-rich Central Asian country, an attempted assassination, allegations of kidnapping and murder and a battle in an American courtroom for control of billions of dollars in seized assets.

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