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On Thursday, January 12, the upper house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan decided to deprive Nursultan Nazarbayev of the title of “Honorary Senator,” and the very next day, January 13, deputies will consider the loss of the law “On the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy.” Thus, the first president loses the status of “Leader of the Nation” and all privileges previously granted to him and his immediate relatives, in...
President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Jomart Tokayev agreed with the proposal of deputies of the country's parliament to return the capital to its previous name - Astana, removing from toponymy the name Nur-Sultan, given to it in honor of the first president and founder of independent Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. The press secretary of the President of Kazakhstan, Ruslan Zheldibay, wrote about this on Facebook on September 13. The proposal of the deputies of the Parliament of Kazakhstan is included in the draft Constitutional Law, reported...
In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, a huge layer of NGOs, liberals, national patriots and neo-Nazis of all stripes became extremely active on command after the start of a special operation to denazify Ukraine, consolidated and began a campaign of persecution of dissenters. At the same time, they constantly hold provocative rallies and actions, and also allegedly collect humanitarian aid for the “Independence”. In general, such a reaction was to be expected, since...
The official Kazakh “leader of the nation” is returning to politics, from which he most likely never left, but at the moment Nazarbayev has appeared in Turkey as a public figure. Considering that it was he who initiated the creation of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), such a trip plays with completely different colors. Meanwhile, in Kazakhstan itself, the split in power is deepening and...
Last Friday, Kazakhstan hosted a congress of the ruling Nur Otan party, which is now headed by the country’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The party itself is undergoing an internal crisis due to the massive withdrawal of ordinary members from it, but the very fact of its transfer into the hands of the head of the country finally concentrates power in his hands and ends the protracted transit. In this regard, the question arises...
Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus (Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov) played a prank on the criminal Kazakh businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov, who fled abroad, who opened a headquarters in Kyiv from where the actions of opposition protests are coordinated. The pranksters called on behalf of the deputy of criminal blogger Alexei Navalny - Leonid Volkov, who also fled abroad, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. It immediately became obvious that Ablyazov did not fully understand...
Nursultan Nazarbayev, rumors of whose death have appeared in the media in recent days, today made a video message. Impressions from the four-minute video turned out to be contradictory, and we will try to analyze what Elbasy said and draw preliminary conclusions. In his video, Nazarbayev confirmed the powers of the current President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to whom he handed over the reins of power in 2019. At the same time, Elbasy presented...
When in the 1990s, the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, proposed making Russian the state language, the then Russian government ignored this issue. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda, said the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Konstantin Zatulin, answering the question whether Nazarbayev was previously an internationalist. “He himself spoke in the 90s about...
Kazakhstan tried to get out of the influence of Russia and gain the protection of the United States, which resulted in numerous problems for both Astana and Moscow. Israeli military expert, ex-head of the Nativ intelligence service, Yakov Kedmi, stated this on the TV channel TVC, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I heard the state strategy of Kazakhstan with my own ears from Nazarbayev in 1994. He spoke with...
The Kazan City Hall does not plan to consider the issue of renaming the street named after the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. This was reported by the press service of the mayor's office, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Executive Committee of Kazan is also not considering renaming Nazarbayev Street,” the press service said. The city hall sees the main obstacle to renaming the street as the need for regular paperwork. Including, you will have to re-issue papers...
The current president of the country, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, bears responsibility for the rampant Russophobia in Kazakhstan. High School Professor Dmitry Evstafiev stated this on the air of the Vesti FM radio station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I really don’t like that some people who have declared themselves great leaders in Kazakhstan are hanging all their dogs on Nursultan Nazarbayev. And they do it very quickly and dishonestly. Nazarbayev...
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev spoke today at a joint meeting of the government and parliament, where he voiced the official version of what happened, and also outlined the guidelines for his own socio-economic and political course. Judging by the indicated guidelines, the head of state intends to distance himself from Nazarbayev’s legacy. First of all, he touched upon the unsatisfactory role of the main Kazakh intelligence service - the National Security Committee (NSC), which allegedly overslept...
Moscow’s mistake after the collapse of the USSR was to rely on cooperation with the ruling regime of Kazakhstan, which, receiving support from Russia, was engaged in squeezing the Russian population out of the former Soviet republic. This was stated by the leader of the LDPR, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It was necessary to support the Russians throughout Central Asia. They did the opposite. The USSR supported the nationalists who negotiate beneficially with whom...
Turkish leader Recep Erdogan, strengthening Ankara’s influence in Kazakhstan, declared the first president of this country “elder of the Turkic world.” Vladimir Avatkov, senior researcher at IMEMO RAS, associate professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Izvestia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the ideology of the Turkic-centric subsystem called the “Turkic world”, where the Turks are the only correct ones, is very important for Turkey...
