KAZAKHSTAN: Hill & Knowlton and BSMG Worldwide have won an unusual joint appointment to encourage politicians and the press to police the forthcoming elections in former Soviet Bloc nation, Kazakhstan.

Both BSMG and H&K will target media and lawmakers on behalf of the Kazakhstan 21st Century Foundation, although H&K will work particularly close by with Western journalists in Moscow.

'We have spent a considerable amount of time sitting around the same table,' admitted H&K's head of public diplomacy practice Charles ...