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    The document trail that pointed to a secret pipeline scheme

    Key extracts from evidence seen by the FT indicating a set-up designed to enrich Kazakh billionaire Timur Kulibayev

  • Friday, 7 June, 2019
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    Voters see Nazarbayev’s hand in Kazakh president poll

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

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

    Questions remain over economic reform and upcoming snap elections

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

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

  • Sunday, 24 March, 2019
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    The president of almost 30 years has been a relatively enlightened authoritarian

  • Friday, 22 March, 2019
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    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
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    Kazakhstan to rename state capital Nursultan after former president
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
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    Outgoing president wants to manage transition to new era after 30 years in charge

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
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    From Soviet boss to economic reformer

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

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

  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2018
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    More than a year after the dictator’s death, Tashkent may be coming in from the cold

  • Wednesday, 27 December, 2017
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    There are worrying precedents to Egypt’s plan for a new megacity

  • Thursday, 28 September, 2017
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    Spies, lies and the oligarch: inside London’s secrets industry

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

  • Monday, 19 June, 2017
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    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
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    Kazakh leader’s devolution offer raises doubts

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

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2016
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    Amid talk over the leadership, the country has to solve fundamental problems

  • Thursday, 8 September, 2016
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    Any domestic instability could have repercussions internationally

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