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The results of the international standardized tests provide a cause for optimism. However, the future prospects may turn out to be cheerful only for a small elite group of «the enlightened» that will be maximally eager to preserve the political status quo...
We are beginning to perform an in-depth analysis of the structure and the business-interests of Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev’s clan. For Kazakhstan, this is a matter of an enormous significance. But, if the interests of the other clans have been analyzed in detail, the figure of the current president has always remained in the shadows. In our opinion, quite undeservingly so. Here is the first article of the series...
A Kazakh trail has appeared in the case of the recent murder of a former French intelligence agent committed at the Swiss border. The European media mention the name of Dariga Nazarbayeva, the Speaker of the Kazakh Parliament and the second-top public official of the country...
The shadowy part of the story of the Tengiz oil filed that, today, belongs to Kazakhstan does not end with James Giffen’s bribery case. Giffen, a financier, a spy and simply a fixer, was just one of the pieces in the big oil chess game played around the Caspian oil...
The scandal around Tsesnabank that had been transferred from the private hands to the hands of the state monopoly (or, to be more precise, to the hands of the people who have the right for this monopoly) has died out. However, while researching who has gained control over the troubled financial institute, we have elicited some interesting details...
Following the bankruptcy of Buccaneer Energy Ltd., an Australian oil company that owns several fields in Alaska, the world has learned about the methods Meridian Capital International Fund employs when working in the other countries...
