Nazarbayev Weighs New Run to Extend Longest Ex-Soviet Tenure
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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said he may extend the longest reign of any former Soviet leader by running for a fifth term in 2016.
“There definitely will be a transition of power -- there’s nothing frozen, it will be changed,” Nazarbayev, 73, said in an interview last week in the presidential palace in the Kazakh capital, Astana. “I was elected until December 2016. The time will come when we’ll talk about it.”