Dariga nazarbayeva biography of barack obama
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The struggle for control of the 21st century's oil resources underlies, in part, both the bloody Russian war against Chechen separatism and the possible war with Saddam Hussein. It also underlies a struggle less violent but, in its own way, just as significant in Kazakhstan, the biggest new oil province since Alaska opened up 30 years ago.
The main players of the Kazakh drama are Nursultan Nazarbayev, the autocratic president, and Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, a former supporter who is now the imprisoned leader of the most serious opposition movement in post-Soviet central Asia. Zhakiyanov used to be the governor of Pavlodar, a grimy industrial province on Kazakhstan's northern border with Russia. Today he sits in a former Soviet gulag on the bleak Kazakh steppe, surrounded by common criminals, many suffering from TB, HIV and other contagious diseases. He has been in jail since August when he was sentenced to seven years in what diplomats describe as a typical Soviet-era show trial.
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Nursultan Nazarbayev
President of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019
"Nazarbayev" redirects here. For other uses of the name, see Nazarbayev (surname).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Abishuly and the family name is Nazarbayev.
Nursultan Nazarbayev | |
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Nazarbayev in 2021 | |
| In office 16 December 1991 – 20 March 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| Vice President | Yerik Asanbayev (1991–96) |
| Preceded by | Office established (Himself as President of the Kazakh SSR) |
| Succeeded by | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev |
| In office 21 August 1991 – 5 January 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev |
| In office 1 March 1999 – 28 January 2022 | |
| Acting | |
| Deputy | |
| First Deputy | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev |
| In office 1 March 1995 – 28 April 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev • Rakhat Aliyev has had many careers. The 47 year old Kazakh former intelligence chief and self-proclaimed opposition leader has been a medical doctor, an accused kidnapper, a tycoon lording over international holdings, an ambassador, and, finally, a convicted criminal on the run from his own country.His next role may be as a major headache inherited by the Obama administration. This though Aliyev is currently ensconced in luxury in Vienna, Austria, an ocean away from Washington, DC. He has worn out his welcome in Austria and is looking west to the United States for help. Sources say he wants immunity in exchange for information, including allegations about the actions of his former father in law, the unindicted co-conspirator in a major federal case in the United States. It would be nothing more than an intriguing international crime story were it not for the fact that Rakhat Aliyev's father in law, that un-indicted coconspirator, is the president of Kazakhstan, His Excellency Nursu |