Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is hoping to be elected for a third term of office in a poll scheduled for early December. The signs are that he will succeed.
This would buck the trend of the last three post-Soviet presidential elections, coming after revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.
Opposition groups in each of these three countries received varying levels of support from the west. As research from brokerage house Aton Capital points out, Kazakhstan boasts investment from all the world’s major economic players, including the US, Europe, Russia and China, through oil investments.
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