Tag: Nursultan Nazarbayev
a presidential election without much suspense to end a bloody year
Nearly 12 million voters are called to the polls this Sunday, November 20 in Kazakhstan to elect their president. Despite an ambitious program of political and judicial reforms, the big…
power dismisses relatives of former President Nazarbayev from large companies
In Kazakhstan, purges appear to be underway, a week after the situation calmed down after several days of deadly riots in the first week of January. Family members of former…
the ex-president’s clan to maneuver during the riots to keep power
Kazakhstan has just experienced the most important events since its independence in 1991, according to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, referring to the riots that killed at least 164 people. He’s talking…
the international community calls for calm
In Kazakhstan, security forces chased protesters from the main public square in Almaty, the economic capital of the country rocked by riots that killed dozens of people and led to…