Nazarbayev invited for Putin's inauguration in Moscow

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev was invited for the inauguration of Vladimir Putin among other guests of honor, Kommersant writes. The official ceremony on Putin’s return to the Kremlin will be held on May 7, 2012. The honorary guests of the ceremony include former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and the presidents of Belarus and Ukraine. The Kremlin’s chief property manager Vladimir Kozhin said that the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine are expected to arrive in Moscow. “Aleksander Lukashenko and especially Nursultan Nazarbayev and the closest partners of Russia in a post-Soviet space. Moscow is building with Astana and Minsk the Eurasian Economic Union suggested by Putin,” he noted.