KAZAKH JURISTS DENOUNCE NEW CONSTITUTION AS UNDEMOCRATIC

.Six of the seven justices of Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court now inresidence denounced President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s draft constitutionas undemocratic because it gives too much power to the executivebranch and provides too little protection for human rights, Interfaxreported July 12. According to other Russian media, most ethnicRussians in Kazakhstan are worried about provisions which declareKazakhstan the state of the Kazakhs, and which make Russian anofficial but not a state language.

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