While the Kazakhs are fighting coronavirus and are trying to survive in the conditions of the drug deficit, the growing unemployment and the information vacuum on the part of the authorities, the insides of the authoritarian political system are experiencing some remarkable developments...
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After Dariga Nazarbayeva’s dismissal, her colleague from the Mazhilis Nurlan Nigmatulin seems to be loosing firm ground. On one hand, Baurzhan Baybek is confidently pushing him aside, one the other, there is the second President...
The recent arrest of certain Dauren Abdykhamitov in Almaty whose name has been mentioned in the Kazakh media in connection to the uber-scandalous case of LRT may do a serious damage to the clan of the Leader of the Nation’s eldest daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva and her son Nurali Aliyev. Let is explain why...
This material was prepared when Dariga Nazarbayeva was not simply chairing the Senate of the Kazakh Parliament but was abnormally active at this job interfering with literally everything that she came across. Nonetheless, we are publishing is here because, for Kazakhstan, the subject it touches upon is more than important and interesting...
We had already noted that Akorda and the Library are a likely to prolongate the emergency rule for a month in the hope that, in an emergency case, it will give a free hand to the state structures and especially siloviks. And that’s exactly what happened...
A new intra-elite tension with more than serious consequences is forming around the criminal case related to organising illegal gambling business, betting firm Olimp whose owner, according to the insider information we have received, is close to Nurstultan Nazarbayev’s eldest daughter...