Word: kazakhstan
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...election in Kazakhstan's 16 years of independence has yet been seen as free and fair by Western observers. If they expected a better showing at the elections for the Majilis (the lower house of the Kazakhstan parliament), held by Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev yesterday, they should have known better. The Nazarbayev-led Nur-Otan (Light of the Fatherland) party carried 88.05% of the vote - and all the seats in that legislative body. All expectations for at least a token opposition presence in the much touted "new parliament of reform" flopped. Neither the All-National Social-Democratic party (ANSD...
...food. In the latter, he likes beneficiaries of cheap agriculture and protein, noting opportunities in Argentina GDP warrants, Brazil broadly and fertilizer companies in Taiwan. In equities he likes Serbia, Macedonia, Malaysia and the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries, and he is looking to other frontier markets, including Kazakhstan and Georgia. Pushed to home in on one idea, Leitner says his favorite trade is buying a short-dated Swedish krona call option against the euro. It's a way of playing the next Swedish central bank meeting, he explains...
...When Aliyev married Dariga Nazarbayeva in 1984, it was seen as a love affair within Kazakhstan's political elite (Aliyev's father was the former Health Minister). Aliyev slowly rose in the government until the fall of 2001, when his alleged collusion with top officials against Nazarbayev lead to a political crisis. Some Kazakh political sources say that only Dariga's intervention saved Aliyev from the wrath of an enraged Nazarbayev, who then exiled Aliyev to Vienna as ambassador. Aliyev was able to return only in July 2005, when an appeased Nazarbayev promoted him to First Deputy Foreign Minister...
...Aliyev has other enemy in-laws. His wife's sister and her husband are rivals for power within the family as well. As for now, however, the all-powerful father-in-law has had Kazakhstan's Prosecutor General's Office close down several print, broadcast and online outlets of the media-holding company controlled by Aliyev and Dariga. That vast empire will be now redistributed among the President's supporters. The police searched Dariga's house, in spite of her immunity as a member of parliament. "Getting rid of Aliyev is good news," says one analyst in Kazakhstan...
...This political melodrama would be amusing if Kazakhstan were not the most prosperous of the Central Asian nations that emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union, a stable secular state in a predominantly Muslim-populated country, and a huge stable source of energy, both oil and natural gas. So much power concentrated in the hands of one man in that country may help ensure some sort of stability, but the lack of political maturity bodes ill for an increasingly critical section of the world...