Attached please find the most recent information available to the DIRB on both the Alash and Azat political groups in Kazakhstan.

BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. 27 August 1992. "Kazakh Dissident Seeks Asylum in Azerbaijan." (NEXIS)

_____. 8 October 1992. "Opposition Party Trial Resumes in Alma-Ata." (NEXIS)

_____. 1 December 1992. "Azat Movement Votes to Reverse Decision to Merge with Azat Party." (NEXIS)

_____. 27 January 1993. "Parliamentary Chairman Meets Political and Social Groups." (NEXIS)

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. January 1993. Human Rights and Democratization in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union. Washington. pp. 199-200.

Current Digest of the Soviet Press. 22 May 1991. "Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev Tries Pragmatism." (NEXIS)

_____. 29 July 1992. "Kazakhstan: 'Forgotten' Islam. Prospects for the Religious-Political Movement." (NEXIS)

Inter-Press Service. 27 October 1992. Mushahid Hussain. "Central Asia: Islam vs Remnants of an Old Order." (NEXIS)

Reuters. 5 February 1993. Richard Balmforth. "Nationalism Casts Shadow over Kazakhstan's Bright Future." (NEXIS)

Russica Information Inc. 2 July 1992. Alexei Malashenko. "The 'Forgotten' Islam." (NEXIS)