It’s the end of an era as Qazaqstan’s long-ruling leader Nursultan Nazarbayev finally relinquishes the reins of power.
The end of an era – Nazarbayev resigns, Niyazov and Karimov dead…
After nearly 30 years of President Nazarbayev at the helm, Lord Venal is said to be excited by the prospect of observing a presidential election without the presence of the soon to be ex-president.
“It won’t be the same without Nureke,” Venal told kazaxia, with a tear in his eye. “I sort of remember 2005, oh what a party that was,” he added wistfully.
kazaxia’s political guru, Gerry Kefali, had this to say: “Nazarbayev, who remains the Leader of the Nation, is likely to continue to pull the strings in Qazaqstan for some time to come yet. While he may step aside from the top job, the system he has constructed will trundle on, it just remains to be seen who the new figurehead will be.”
We direct you to Joanna Lillis’s excellent book Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan to get the lowdown on how that system was created.
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