An elderly Thai man was jailed by a military court for scrawling graffiti in a shopping mall toilet critical of the country's junta leaders and its revered king.
Two Kazakhstan parties – Party of Patriots and Social Democratic Party Auyl - have supported the candidacy of the incumbent president Nursultan Nazarbayev in the coming presidential elections.
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called Kazakhstanis "a nation of united future" during the XVI Congress of Kazakhstan’s Nur Otan party.
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.
Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov said Uzbekistan would never join a union that resembles the former Soviet Union and would never return into the Soviet Union era again.
Ukraine's temporary charge d'affaires in Kazakhstan Yuriy Lazebnik has explained what Ukrainian leadership expects to address at the possible summit in Kazakhstan’s Astana.
The meeting in Astana in Norman format (with the participation of leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France) to resolve the situation in Ukraine is at the stage of preparations.