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Kazakhstan ends nomination of candidates for early president polls.
ASTANA, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The nomination of candidates to run
in the early presidential elections in Kazakhstan is over. Incumbent
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev set the elections on April 3. Some
22 presidential candidates were nominated by the evening on February 20,
the Kazakh Central Election Commission reported.
Three political parties nominated their candidates, namely Nur Otan -
incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Communist People's Party of
Kazakhstan - Zhambyl Akhmetbekov, the Kazakh Party of Patriots - Gani
Kasymov and the republican people's patriotic movement Zheltoksan
(December) - Kurmangazy Rakhmetov. Other candidates are self-nominees.
Five hopefuls did not pass the Kazakh language exam, the Kazakh CEC
reported. Four of them were already denied registration. Another two
self-nominees dropped from the presidential race.
The only officially registered presidential candidate is incumbent
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The registration of presidential candidates continues and will end on
March 2. Apart from passing the Kazakh language exam for official
registration a presidential candidate is to deposit about 800,000 tenges
(about 5,000 dollars) to the CEC account and to file an income and
property declaration in the tax service. Under the resolution, which the
CEC has earlier issued, at least 91,000 voters equally representing all 16
regions of the country are to sign up for a presidential candidate. The
canvassing campaign will be launched on March 3 and will end on April 1 that is two days before the election day.
Death toll of riots in Libya reaches 233 people - HRW.
NEW YORK, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The death toll of the riots in
Libya has reached 233 people for the past few days, Human Rights Watch
(HRW) reported here on Sunday.
Over 60 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in the clashes
with the police in Benghazi on Sunday alone, HRW reported. The city
hospitals lack beds and medicines.
.CIS chiefs of anti-terrorist forces to discuss transport security.
MOSCOW, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The chiefs of staff of the
anti-terrorist forces from the CIS states will discuss the transport
security problems in the CIS states at their 4th meeting here on Monday.
The forum due to be held in Odintsovo, the Moscow Region, "will assess
the security threats to the CIS states in Central Asia," the press bureau
of the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center told Itar-Tass.
The delegations from the CIS security services, representatives of the
CIS Executive Committee, the CSTO Secretariat, the Executive Committee of
the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure, the coordinating service of the
CIS Council of the Commanders of the Border Troops, the coordinating
bureau for the struggle against organized crime and other dangerous crimes
in the CIS states and the Secretariat of the CIS Council of Defence
Ministers will participate in the meeting.
The participants in the meeting will focus on the security measures at
sport facilities and mass venues and the international search for
terrorists in the CIS states.
The forum will last until February 22.
.RF main artillery range to use RF simulators, German technologies.
ABU-DHABI, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The largest European artillery
training range at Mulino in the Nizhny Novgorod Region will be equipped
with modern Russian simulators and German technologies under the
reconstruction project. "The Mulino artillery training range will have
Russian simulators and Western logistics and know-how," Russian First
Deputy Defence Minister Vladimir Popovkin told reporters at the IDEX-2011
defence show in Abu-Dhabi on Sunday.
Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov met with Germany's
Rheinmetall CEO Klaus Eberhardt earlier in February. The sides signed an
agreement to design a combat training center at the Mulino artillery
training range meeting the most advanced military training requirements.
"The creation of such a center will enable to model any tactical situation
on the battlefield and to give the real assessment to the combat actions
of the brigade staff," spokeswoman for the Russian defence minister
Lieut.-Col. Irina Kovalchuk said.
In February Commander of the Russian Ground Troops Col.-Gen. Alexander
Postnikov visited Berlin to discuss with the Bundeswerh Command Staff
Germany's participation in the creation of a modern combat training center
in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
"At the end of the previous year we decided to create a combat
training center at the Russian main artillery training range at Mulino
involving German specialists. This combat training center will enable to
model any tactical situation on the battlefield, hold bilateral tactical
exercises by two brigades and to give the real assessment to the actions
of all the military staff," spokesman for the Russian Ground Troops
Lieut.-Col. Sergei Vlasov told Itar-Tass.
"German specialists from Rheinmetall are working on the project, and
the main combat training department of the Russian Ground Troops is
examining Russian military products that may be applied in a new combat
training center," the spokesman underlined.
-0-baz
in the early presidential elections in Kazakhstan is over. Incumbent
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev set the elections on April 3. Some
22 presidential candidates were nominated by the evening on February 20,
the Kazakh Central Election Commission reported.
Three political parties nominated their candidates, namely Nur Otan -
incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Communist People's Party of
Kazakhstan - Zhambyl Akhmetbekov, the Kazakh Party of Patriots - Gani
Kasymov and the republican people's patriotic movement Zheltoksan
(December) - Kurmangazy Rakhmetov. Other candidates are self-nominees.
Five hopefuls did not pass the Kazakh language exam, the Kazakh CEC
reported. Four of them were already denied registration. Another two
self-nominees dropped from the presidential race.
The only officially registered presidential candidate is incumbent
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The registration of presidential candidates continues and will end on
March 2. Apart from passing the Kazakh language exam for official
registration a presidential candidate is to deposit about 800,000 tenges
(about 5,000 dollars) to the CEC account and to file an income and
property declaration in the tax service. Under the resolution, which the
CEC has earlier issued, at least 91,000 voters equally representing all 16
regions of the country are to sign up for a presidential candidate. The
canvassing campaign will be launched on March 3 and will end on April 1 that is two days before the election day.
Death toll of riots in Libya reaches 233 people - HRW.
NEW YORK, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The death toll of the riots in
Libya has reached 233 people for the past few days, Human Rights Watch
(HRW) reported here on Sunday.
Over 60 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in the clashes
with the police in Benghazi on Sunday alone, HRW reported. The city
hospitals lack beds and medicines.
.CIS chiefs of anti-terrorist forces to discuss transport security.
MOSCOW, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The chiefs of staff of the
anti-terrorist forces from the CIS states will discuss the transport
security problems in the CIS states at their 4th meeting here on Monday.
The forum due to be held in Odintsovo, the Moscow Region, "will assess
the security threats to the CIS states in Central Asia," the press bureau
of the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center told Itar-Tass.
The delegations from the CIS security services, representatives of the
CIS Executive Committee, the CSTO Secretariat, the Executive Committee of
the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure, the coordinating service of the
CIS Council of the Commanders of the Border Troops, the coordinating
bureau for the struggle against organized crime and other dangerous crimes
in the CIS states and the Secretariat of the CIS Council of Defence
Ministers will participate in the meeting.
The participants in the meeting will focus on the security measures at
sport facilities and mass venues and the international search for
terrorists in the CIS states.
The forum will last until February 22.
.RF main artillery range to use RF simulators, German technologies.
ABU-DHABI, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The largest European artillery
training range at Mulino in the Nizhny Novgorod Region will be equipped
with modern Russian simulators and German technologies under the
reconstruction project. "The Mulino artillery training range will have
Russian simulators and Western logistics and know-how," Russian First
Deputy Defence Minister Vladimir Popovkin told reporters at the IDEX-2011
defence show in Abu-Dhabi on Sunday.
Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov met with Germany's
Rheinmetall CEO Klaus Eberhardt earlier in February. The sides signed an
agreement to design a combat training center at the Mulino artillery
training range meeting the most advanced military training requirements.
"The creation of such a center will enable to model any tactical situation
on the battlefield and to give the real assessment to the combat actions
of the brigade staff," spokeswoman for the Russian defence minister
Lieut.-Col. Irina Kovalchuk said.
In February Commander of the Russian Ground Troops Col.-Gen. Alexander
Postnikov visited Berlin to discuss with the Bundeswerh Command Staff
Germany's participation in the creation of a modern combat training center
in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
"At the end of the previous year we decided to create a combat
training center at the Russian main artillery training range at Mulino
involving German specialists. This combat training center will enable to
model any tactical situation on the battlefield, hold bilateral tactical
exercises by two brigades and to give the real assessment to the actions
of all the military staff," spokesman for the Russian Ground Troops
Lieut.-Col. Sergei Vlasov told Itar-Tass.
"German specialists from Rheinmetall are working on the project, and
the main combat training department of the Russian Ground Troops is
examining Russian military products that may be applied in a new combat
training center," the spokesman underlined.
-0-baz
