Akezhan Kazhegeldin very precisely and vividly (and self-critically in some ways) matched that big officials go to opposition from political Olympus by only one reason: they’ve been out from a feeding through. Naturally, quantity of pushed from through is more than those who came into oppositional side. You need to have definite level of ambitions and fightiness to go to opposition side. ... (Continue reading)
The situation inside the state is more difficult. Necessary non-change of the president, which people readily proved on elections until now, resulted some stagnation in elite. ... (Continue reading)
In any case, Nur Otan, the political party of Power, now has the political rival which is hard to ignore. Social-democrats, Azat members themselves interpret the expert scepsis at their address as “black PR” and ready to prove in fact they have become not only more in number but in political strength presently. ... (Continue reading)
Rakhat Aliev is also a contender, but of different breed. This person in his desires is resting not on smartness and strategy, but on power authorities. Lack of intellect became fatal for him. Nevertheless, by virtue of common idiocy and unpredictability he is very dangerous, because nobody could estimate next step of schizoid with big money. ... (Continue reading)
Nursultan Nazarbaev has no bloody trace like «Andizhan events». The positions of the president of Kazakhstan are not weak as Askar Akaev had, the former president of Kyrgyzstan. Astana owner did not begin to create something like a political mode in Turkmenistan for power retention. ... (Continue reading)
The subjective factor of Rakhat Aliev has accelerated the process of politicization of disaffected businessmen. On the other hand the authorities have learned to operate delicately. The party-list elections of 10 deputies of Mazhilis, introduced in 1999, were the cause of the opposition’s split. ... (Continue reading)