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The Senate has requested the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan to provide an official interpretation of the Article 41 of the Constitution on early presidential elections.

• 24 февраля 2015, 17:47

The Majilis has asked Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to support the idea of holding the presidential elections ahead of time.

• 19 февраля 2015, 21:10

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was unhappy with the decision by powerful intelligence chief Hakan Fidan to resign from his post.

• 09 февраля 2015, 11:51

The lower chamber of Kazakhstan’s Parliament - the Majilis - has ratified a draft bill on Amendments to Articles 25 and 26 of the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.

• 06 января 2015, 13:08

Speaker of the Senate, Kazakhstan Parliament’s upper chamber, Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev has summarized the legislative work of 2014 and told about the tasks for 2015.

• 29 декабря 2014, 18:00

Greece's parliament will try to elect a president on Monday in a last-ditch bid to avoid snap general elections that could bring the hard-left to power and spark new concerns over the eurozone economy.

• 29 декабря 2014, 14:05

Representatives of three Eurasian Economic Union countries - Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus, have shown in their statements that creation of a Eurasian parliament is not a question to ponder on in the near future.

• 25 ноября 2014, 20:21

KazMunaiGas Vice Chairman Tiyesov has spoken in the Mazhilis informing the deputies that Kazakhstan will face a decline in oil production should no new fields be discovered in the upcoming decade.

• 07 ноября 2014, 17:28

The People's Communist Party has tagged the decision to abandon construction of the 4th oil refinery in Kazakhstan ill judged and said problems had to be solved by the government not shifted to the shoulders of the citizens.

• 07 ноября 2014, 17:18

Senate Speaker Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has expressed his view that democratization is a dynamic process, and therefore democracy cannot be artificially accelerated or imposed.

• 07 ноября 2014, 16:46

Kazakh MP Vladislav Kosarev has declared that something needs to be done about the foreign audit companies that have captured the Kazakh market.

• 31 октября 2014, 17:26

Pro-Western and nationalist parties scored a crushing victory in Ukraine's snap parliamentary polls, which were boycotted by pro-Russian rebels.

• 27 октября 2014, 12:18

Chairman of the Committee for Finance and Budget in Parliament’s Lower Chamber Karagusova pointed to the discrepancy between the costs and payoff of state-sponsored healthcare projects.

• 08 октября 2014, 13:38

United Nations will help Kazakhstan to develop electronic government as Kazakh government ratifies agreement on cooperation.

• 03 октября 2014, 18:09

Kazakh Senate Speaker Tokayev has called onto organizers of forums in Astana to economize.

• 03 октября 2014, 17:30

The Turkish government said it has asked parliament to authorise military action in Iraq and Syria to halt the advance of Islamic State (IS) jihadists.

• 01 октября 2014, 11:03

Kazakh Lower Chamber MP asked the head of the Anti-Corruption Agency about ways to improve Kazakhstan's rating in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index.

• 29 сентября 2014, 21:58

Indonesia's parliament voted to scrap direct elections for local leaders, despite angry protests against the move and criticism.

• 26 сентября 2014, 13:12

Indonesia's parliament was set to decide whether to scrap the direct election of local leaders.

• 25 сентября 2014, 14:48

Hungary's parliament adopted a law compelling banks to pay compensation to borrowers hit by past interest rate hikes on loans deemed unfair by authorities.

• 25 сентября 2014, 11:05