Yesterday we noted that while the wires were previewing a grip-on-power election in Kazakhstan, Euronews' Kazakhstan page was showing you a rescued tiger and Comic Con Astana. Update: the results came in, and Euronews published an actual election article. We believe in celebrating growth. Now let's read it. * First, what everyone else saw. AP's results headline, carried by the Washington Post and local stations across America: "Kazakhstan's pro-government party wins parliamentary election, boosting president's grip on power." The numbers behind the bluntness: the Adilet party — founded in April, led by the former head of Tokayev's presidential administration — took 71% of the vote for the new single-chamber parliament. And the OSCE's election monitors delivered their verdict: a vote "marred by a lack of distinct political opposition," with "all contesting parties supporting the incumbent president's policies." Every party on the ballot was on the president's side. The monitors just did the counting. * Now Euronews' version: "Kazakhstan's new ruling party projected to win Sunday elections." Look at how much work "new ruling party" is doing in that sentence — not "pro-government," not "led by the president's former chief of staff," just... new. Like a restaurant. Inside the article, Euronews notes 777 international observers were on hand, and quotes one: an official from Moldova's election commission, who observed that the polling stations "follow modern standards of digitalisation" and praised the accessibility measures for voters with disabilities. That's the observer coverage. The OSCE — the actual heavyweight monitoring mission, the one whose job is to say whether the election was competitive — appears nowhere. In Euronews' Kazakhstan, election observers exist to compliment the touchscreens — sorry, the digitalisation. * The wildest part is what Euronews had and left lying flat. Deep in the piece, Tokayev is quoted saying the Constitutional Court has ruled that "I have the legal right to be re-elected in accordance with the law" — while declining to say whether he'll run. That's a strongman announcing his legal runway, and other outlets headlined exactly that hint. In Euronews it sits there like a weather aside, no analyst, no critic, no follow-up question. And remember: Euronews' own March story described this constitution as one that "expands presidential power." Today's article says it "replaced the bicameral parliament." Same document, same newsroom — the expansion evaporated somewhere over the summer, and yesterday we caught the same amnesia in its July preview. * To be fair where fairness is due: Al Jazeera's results piece also skipped the OSCE. But its standfirst still told you the win would "consolidate the power" of President Tokayev — omission with the frame intact. Euronews did something different: it didn't just leave the criticism out, it filled the observer slot with applause. And as regular readers know, Euronews is owned by Alpac Capital, a Portuguese fund whose CEO is the son of a longtime Orbán adviser — and Orbán has spent years courting Central Asia's presidents, Tokayev very much included. We keep not claiming a memo went out. We keep noticing the coverage reads like one did.