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In the backdrop of sharp deficit of fuel, a result of which was a considerable rise in retail prices, and loud inter-governmental scandal, provoked by the statements of the Kyrgyz president, all other subjects automatically went to the background. And this includes inter-clan games and wars.
Thanks to the scandalous idea to levy the per capita transport tax upon Astana citizens, the Astana LRT company is, once again, at the center of everyone’s attention. And since such destabilizing initiatives are infrequent among the middle-level officials, the question as to why they are proposing it is expected.
The EXPO-2107 International Exhibition closed on September 10. Very soon, after the real estate properties will have been transferred and the legal matters of the project finalized, Akhmetzhan Esimov, the current chairman of the Astana EXPO-2017 National Company, will find himself out of a job. Where will the president send him next?
The sentencing of former Chief of Kazakhstan National Security Nartay Dutbayev has been widely discussed both in Kazakhstan and abroad. There is nothing surprising here – it is not customary, even for the post-Soviet countries, to send former security senior officers to prison. This recent development, however, may be just a beginning.
At the end of August, president of Kazakhstan has appointed two new vice ministers – Erbolat Dosaev and Askar Jumagaliev. From that day on, the head of the government Bakhytjan Sagintaev had not two but four deputies.
Our readers are probably wondering why Talgat Musabayev – the number two astronaut in Kazakhstan, a lieutenant general of the Kazakh aviation, a Ph.D. in technical science, and the head of the Kazakhstan Space Administration – has been released from his post of the presidential adviser.
