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Leaked documents indicate Kazakh president’s son-in-law Timur Kulibayev profited from state contracts
Key extracts from evidence seen by the FT indicating a set-up designed to enrich Kazakh billionaire Timur Kulibayev
Tokayev expected to win Sunday’s election as ex-leader maintains grip on power
Questions remain over economic reform and upcoming snap elections
Interim leader Kassym Jomart Tokayev calls poll for June, a year ahead of schedule
The president of almost 30 years has been a relatively enlightened authoritarian
The Moscow-educated opera singer is primed to be the country’s first female leader
Dariga Nazarbayeva named Senate speaker just hours after father stepped down
Outgoing president wants to manage transition to new era after 30 years in charge
From Soviet boss to economic reformer
Sole president of country since independence says he will make way for ‘new generation’
More than a year after the dictator’s death, Tashkent may be coming in from the cold
There are worrying precedents to Egypt’s plan for a new megacity
The battle over fugitive billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov stretches from Kazakhstan to Knightsbridge
A sluggish economy adds impetus to President Nazarbayev’s aim to begin privatisation and reforms
Soviet-era ruler tested by recession from low oil price and growing dissatisfaction
Amid talk over the leadership, the country has to solve fundamental problems
The next president must work to build an effective common market, writes Ahmed Rashid
Area is dominated by ageing autocrats pointing to possible future instability
In the crackdown on kleptocracy, ‘global policemen’ states have faced difficulties in returning illicit assets to citizens
Any domestic instability could have repercussions internationally
Nazarbayev says deadly attacks in Aktobe orchestrated from abroad
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