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    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      Nazarbayev emerges to deliver TV address to Kazakhstan

      Former president denies rumours of a clash with his successor and says Tokayev has ‘full power’

    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
      Kazakhstan
      Voices from Kazakhstan: protesters unbowed despite bloody crackdown

      Brutal violence as government crushed unrest has only increased public anger, say activists

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      The Big Read
      Nazarbayev and the power struggle over Kazakhstan’s future

      The protests looked as if they might sweep aside the former dictator and his allies but much of the old order could remain

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      News in-depthKazakhstan
      Kazakhstan unrest: ‘bandits’, foreign ‘terrorists’ or messy power struggle?

      Rather than a planned coup d’état, the uprising seems to have been a spontaneous protest that tapped deep resentments

    • Saturday, 8 January, 2022
      Kazakhstan
      Kazakhstan’s former intelligence chief arrested on suspicion of treason

      Move suggests fuel price protests have grown into power struggle between president and predecessor

    • Friday, 7 January, 2022
      Person in the News
      Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Kazakh president confronting a nation in turmoil

      As the country is rocked by protests, the leader must seek stability and escape the legacy of his predecessor Nazarbayev

    • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
      News in-depthKazakhstan
      Kazakhstan protests mark end of Nazarbayev era

      Former president’s handpicked successor takes control of security forces and turns to Russia for help

    • Wednesday, 5 January, 2022
      Kazakhstan
      Russian-led alliance says it will send ‘peacekeepers’ to Kazakhstan over protests

      State of emergency declared in oil-exporting nation as Tokayev vows to respond with force to rising dissent

    • Friday, 7 June, 2019
      Kazakhstan
      Voters sense hand of Nazarbayev in Kazakh presidential poll

      Tokayev expected to win Sunday’s election as ex-leader maintains grip on power

    • Tuesday, 16 April, 2019
      Kazakhstan
      Kazakhstan succession clears roadblock to foreign investment

      Questions remain over economic reform and upcoming snap elections

    • Tuesday, 9 April, 2019
      Kazakhstan
      Kazakhstan to hold snap presidential elections

      Interim leader Kassym Jomart Tokayev calls poll for June, a year ahead of schedule

    • Sunday, 24 March, 2019
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Kazakhstan has entered the post-Nazarbayev transition

      The president of almost 30 years has been a relatively enlightened authoritarian

    • Friday, 22 March, 2019
      Person in the News
      Dariga Nazarbayeva: Kazakhstan’s understudy president

      The Moscow-educated opera singer is primed to be the country’s first female leader

    • Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
      Kazakhstan
      Kazakhstan to rename state capital Nursultan after former president
    • Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
      Kazakhstan
      Nazarbayev’s daughter becomes Kazakh heir apparent

      Dariga Nazarbayeva named Senate speaker just hours after father stepped down

    • Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
      News in-depth
      Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev seeks to cement his legacy

      Outgoing president wants to manage transition to new era after 30 years in charge

    • Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
      ExplainerKazakhstan
      Timeline: Nursultan Nazarbayev — three decades of power

      From Soviet boss to economic reformer

    • Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
      Central Asia
      Kazakhstan leader Nazarbayev to step down after three decades

      Sole president of country since independence says he will make way for ‘new generation’

    • Tuesday, 13 February, 2018
      The Big ReadNeil Buckley
      Once-repressive Uzbekistan begins a post-Karimov opening

      More than a year after the dictator’s death, Tashkent may be coming in from the cold

    • Wednesday, 27 December, 2017
      The FT ViewInfrastructure investment
      When a national capital becomes a vanity project

      There are worrying precedents to Egypt’s plan for a new megacity

    • Thursday, 28 September, 2017
      FT SeriesBest of FT Weekend Magazine 2017
      Spies, lies and the oligarch: inside London’s booming secrets industry

      The battle over fugitive billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov stretches from Kazakhstan to Knightsbridge

    • Monday, 19 June, 2017
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Investors welcome push to prise open Kazakhstan

      A sluggish economy adds impetus to President Nazarbayev’s aim to begin privatisation and reforms

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2017
      Oil
      Kazakh leader Nazarbayev’s devolution offer raises doubts

      Soviet-era ruler tested by recession from low oil price and growing dissatisfaction

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2016
      The Big ReadGlobal Economy
      Kazakhstan: ‘Bigger than one person’

      Amid talk over the leadership, the country has to solve fundamental problems

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2016
      Emerging markets
      Kazakhstan’s PM dismissed, moved to security service
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