Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has rejected the idea of staging a national referendum that would extend his term in office until 2020.
A group of journalists has been detained in northwestern Kazakhstan while protesting a planned referendum to extend President Nursultan Nazarbaev's term by 10 years.
The upper chamber of Kazakhstan's parliament has unanimously backed a plan to hold a referendum that would extend the term in office of President Nursultan Nazarbaev by another 10 years, sending it to the president for a signature.
The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan has criticized plans for a referendum to extend the term in office of President Nursultan Nazarbaev.
The United States has condemned efforts under way in Kazakhstan to hold a national referendum to extend the term in office of President Nursultan Nazarbaev.
Opposition leaders have questioned methods the group has used to collect the signatures.
Kazakhstan's parliament has approved a plan for a referendum on extending the presidency of long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbaev until 2020.
Several prominent Kazakh opposition politicians have voiced objections to a proposed nationwide referendum on extending President Nursultan Nazarbaev's term in office until 2020.
Kazakhstan's Central Election Commission has endorsed an effort by supporters of President Nursultan Nazarbaev to extend his term in office until 2020.
Vladimir Redkokashin, the head of the Astana city council, has said an initiative group of well-known politicians and scholars have turned in a request to hold a national referendum to extend President Nursultan Nazarbaev's term in office until 2020.
A group in northeastern Kazakhstan says it is collecting signatures to hold a national referendum that would keep President Nursultan Nazarbaev in office until 2020.
An initiative group has been formed in Kazakhstan's northeastern city of Oskamen (also known as Ust-Kamenogorsk), with the group announcing that it is collecting signatures to hold a national referendum that would keep President Nursultan Nazarbaev on in office until 2020.
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