In power since 2019, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev remained in the shadow of his Nursultan Nazarbayev mentor. But the Apparatchik has cleverly maneuver by getting the crucial support of Vladimir Putin during the violent riots of January.
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The new strong man of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, was in Beijing, Friday, February 4, to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games, but also at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, for a two-day “job visit”. A first trip abroad with the Head of State Kazakh since the “Bloody” “which caused the death of at least two hundred and twenty-seven people in clashes between civilians and security forces and upset the elite of the country.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, 68, knows Beijing, where he was in a position several years at the Soviet Embassy, of the time when Kazakhstan, the largest state of Central Asia, was part of the USSR. This visit to the powerful Chinese neighbor, however, holds more of the polite gesture while President Kazakh has been closer to Moscow to stay in power.
The domestic situation concentrates all his efforts today, while he conducts a purge within the state apparatus and the Kazakh oil industry. Because the era of nepotism is gone in Kazakhstan, wants to believe President Tokayev. On January 22, quoting Aristotle, he says, “I hope everyone is convinced that the” Plato is dear to me, but the truth is even more expensive “is for me of paramount importance (… ) The interest of the State is much higher than good relations with anyone. “Were thus explicitly appointed former president Noursoultan Nazarbayev and his clan, who have checked the power and riches of the country since independence acquired in 1991.
Critical support of Vladimir Putin
m. Tokayev emancipated from her mentor there is exactly one month after a violent intimate fight triggered by a popular revolt on the rise in GPL and who quickly turned to anger against “the old” Nazarbayev. In which the Chinese language connoisseur, in which the word crisis is formed of the concepts of danger and opportunity, President Kazakh has seized the opportunity to rebound. Perceived so far as a puppet leader and a transitional figure, the time that the autocrats Nursoultan Nazarbayev, 81, refers to his true dolphin, Mr. Tokayev cleverly maneuvered by obtaining the crucial support of Vladimir Putin, through the rapid deployment. and temporary of nearly 3,000 Russian soldiers. In a few days, the one that we nicknamed “the furniture” or “the shadow of Nazarbayev” managed to clock the aging autocrat.
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