Kazakhstan is undergoing what can be called an exodus of the First President’s relatives from power. The news on their resignations have sparked yet another wave of enthusiasm among Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s supporters. However, is it not too early to start celebrating?..
Do you remember the joint declaration of the Kazakh government and the government of the UAE a part of which was to sell two water power plants in the East Kazakhstan region (the Shulbinskaya and Ust-Kamenogorskaya power plants) to some well-concealed investors? Well, it has been revoked...
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Ironically, it was the National Security Committee that became the first governmental structure that had fallen out of favour with Akorda and the Library due to the January “explosion” of the protest sentiments in the country. In other words, the key agency whose purpose is to fight …
On January 11, 2021, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev participated in the plenary meeting of the Mazhilis of the Kazakh Parliament. During the meeting, he first asked the House’s approval to appoint Alikhan Smailov the Prime Minster of the Republic of Kazakhstan and then made a long speech …
The conflict between the protest-minded citizens and the “super-presidential” vertical in Kazakhstan has passed its peak. And even though the authorities are still conducting the “cleaning up” aimed to restore the order and arrest the real criminals, looters and robbers as …
On January 8, 2022, we finally learned where the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the “Leader of the Nation” is located. Turns out, he is not in China, the Emirates, or in an intensive care in Moscow as some Russian telegram-channels have written...