The trend of growing personality cult has been recently supported by B.Tlukhan, a Member of Parliament. He said that considers the president a symbol of the country that cannot be smeared, and added: “For me Nazarbayev is a man, chosen by God”. The whole fuss is about publication of the president’s photo in one of the opposition newspapers. There he was caught on the beach, in swimming trunks. The MP demanded that General Prosecutor’s Office and Ministry of Information gave their assessment of the matter. Tleukhan himself estimates it as “shamelessness”, which is “offends him very much, especially in the month of Ramadan”. He did not explain why president’s swimming trunks are shameless or why the photo is blasphemous.

Reuters reminds, that the picture, which was made several years ago by a paparazzi on one of the European resorts, was first published in foreign newspapers. Earlier this month the same photo appeared in the Russian Weekly “Argumenty i Fakty”, together with preisdent Putin’s photo, also topless.