Rakhat Aliev, the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, told RFE/RL's Kazakh Service that President Nursultan Nazarbaev will do anything to stay in power until 2025 so that a young son can succeed him. Nazarbaev will turn 69 in June.
Austrian authorities are interrogating Kazakhs in regard to the case of Rakhat Aliev, the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, who is wanted in Kazakhstan on criminal charges.
A journalist in the western Kazakh town of Oral was fired one day after asking the regional governor a question about his family's business connections.
The Kazakh weekly newspaper "Varorud" is not on newsstands in the northwestern Tajik province of Sughd because a power shortage stopped the printing presses.
Several political parties in Kazakhstan have issued a statement demanding the immediate release of newspaper editor Ramazan Esergepov by the state security service (KNB).
Kazakh authorities are widely expected to follow Russia's recent example and let their currency slide gradually. But a bigger tenge devaluation could be necessary -- of some 25-40 percent -- though no official would say so, for fear of sowing panic.
There was an air of optimism following a one-day Nabucco international gas pipeline conference in Budapest. Though the event failed to provide as much clarity as many had hoped, the conference did end with promises of financing -- although no cash yet -- and vows to start work on the pipeline this year.
Two Kazakh nongovernmental organizations and several leading editors are demanding the immediate release of Ramazan Esergepov by the state security service (KNB). Esergepov, the chief editor of the weekly "Alma-Ata Info," was arrested earlier this month for allegedly disclosing state secrets in articles printed in his newspaper.
Media activists in Kazakhstan have expressed concern over a draft law on the Internet being considered by parliament.
Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov has said that the country's two major banks will receive $1 billion each from the state's Samruk-Kazyna Fund, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
European officials, financiers, and energy suppliers are in the Hungarian capital to discuss the Nabucco pipeline, which is projected to deliver natural gas from the Middle East and Caspian region to Europe -- bypassing both Russia and Ukraine. The recent gas crisis in Europe, sparked by a pricing dispute between Moscow and Kyiv, has raised interest in alternative energy routes, but many questions about Nabucco's financing and supplies still need to be resolved.
The trial of three Kazakh opposition leaders is set to resume on February 10, a judge for Almaty’s Medeu District has announced, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
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