The Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan proposed to supplement the law on elections with a clause on mandatory examination of the mental health of presidential candidates. According to the representative of the department Lyazzat Suleimen, the initiative was announced by members of the linguistic commission, which takes the exam in the Kazakh language from candidates for the presidency. It is noted that ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not appeared in public since March 5, and this has given rise to “ridiculous rumors about the health, political future and personal life of the president,” writes The Financial Times. The authors of the article believe that “on Monday he will most likely...

The head of the American investment fund Hermitage Capital, Bill Browder, who has worked with Russia for about 11 years, spoke in an interview with CNN about the financial condition of President Putin. “I believe that it (Putin’s financial condition - ed.) is about 200 billion US dollars -...