Polls close in Kazakhstan's democratic test

The polls have closed in Kazakhstan's election in a vote designed to boost the country's democratic credentials by giving a non-ruling party a toehold in parliament for the first time. The image of the former Soviet republic and its veteran President Nursultan Nazarbayev was badly tarnished last month when a long-running protest in a remote oil town was brutally suppressed. ... http://www.euronews.net/