Although the date of the presidential elections in Kazakhstan has not been set, but, as Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes, campaign buses appeared in Kazakh cities decorated with the Russian flag, portraits of the two presidents and the inscription: “Russians, Kazakhs and Slavs are with Nursultan and Russia is with us. Yes to Nazarbayev !". However, Putin's support is a bad omen. In both Ukraine and Abkhazia, the candidates who were helped by the Russian president lost.