Kazakhstan: start of purge in state apparatus

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev reworked the Government and limited several security services close to the former Nursultan State Head Nazarbayev.

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The sentence started as a tribute addressed to the first Kazakh President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power for more than thirty years. And ended with a stab in the brutus. “Thanks to Elbasy [” the father of the nation “, a title that had arrogated the former head of state] appeared in the country of extremely profitable companies and a layer of very wealthy people, including International Echelon “, said, on a neutral voice, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, while the country emerges from a wave of unprecedented riots. The “Blood”, according to the expression used on social networks to designate recent events, caused more than a hundred deaths, provoked the arrest of 10,000 people, and brings out the tensions within of the state apparatus.

Thursday, the Russian military forces, called for reinforcement by Mr. Tokayev, and hundred by Moscow to help keep the power, announced the beginning of their withdrawal. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, these troops began “preparing military and technical equipment for loading in Russian aviation devices for a return to their permanent base”. “The peacekeeping operation is over (…), the tasks have been fulfilled,” welcomed General Russian Andrei Serdioukov, commander of on-site operations. This withdrawal must be completed in ten days, “said President Kazakh.

In front of the parliamentarians together on Tuesday, Mr. Tokayev, while proceeding to a reshuffle of the government, especially pronounced unimaginable words there is another week ago: “It is now time to pay his debt to the Kazakh people (…) I am waiting for an active participation of people who have immense resources but remain in the shadows. “All Kazakhs will have understood whoever addressed this questioning: the Nazarbayev clan. The family and relatives of the former president, who has never ceased to exercise control over the country, particularly on security services, have received its main oil and mining resources for several decades, while most of them of the population lives very unexpectedly.

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In the assembly, the Kazakh media also noticed the absence of several tenors of the clan. In particular that of the eldest daughter of Noursoultan Nazarbayev, Dariga Nazarbaieva, senator and long presented as Mr. Tokayev’s main rival to resume the reins of power. His spokespersons found the parade: she would be “positive at COVID”. But neither she nor her father have appeared in public since the beginning of the demonstrations, on January 2nd. Aliya Nazarbaieva, another daughter of the former president, she was directly targeted by Mr. Tokaev, when he promised to put an end to the juicy monopoly of his ROP recycling company. Several members of the family circle would have left the country, including the brother Cadet Bolat, Politics and Banker, Party to Dubai via Bichkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

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