Word: kazakhstan
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When May began, Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakhstan's ambassador to Vienna, was the crown prince of the energy-abundant central Asian nation. He was married to the favorite daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, whom the country's newly rewritten constitution now allows to stay on as President for life if he so chooses. Aliyev had the crown squarely in his sights. As May ends, however, Aliyev's political, business and media empire is being unraveled; and he is a fugitive, placed on a criminal wanted list by his vindictive father...
...mistake Aliyev for a democrat. Though he acts like a political opponent, Aliyev can behave in crass and self-serving ways. Last September, before he opposed his father-in-law's new powers, Aliyev suggested that Kazakhstan become a hereditary monarchy - perhaps, say observers, to try to restore relations with Nazarbayev but also to set up Aliyev's own son Nuralli as eventual sultan of a new kingdom...
...head of Nurbank, Abilmazhen Gilimov, now in police custody and under investigation for alleged embezzlement, appeared on Kazakhstan National TV last Saturday to repeat his court statement claiming that Aliyev had him and his colleague handcuffed and hauled to a basement. Gilimov says that Aliyev then fired a gun over their heads and threatened to kill them, saying: "In this country I can get away with anything." There has still been no sign of Gilimov's deputy, Zholdas Timraliyev. When the kidnappings were first reported, the Presidential son-in-law had offered an $83,000 reward to anyone who found...
...From Kazakhstan, Aliyev rushed back to Austria, where he made a statement to an online magazine he controlled, dismissing the charges as a part of slander campaign. The real reason, he said, was his informing Nazarbayev of his intentions to run for Presidency in 2012. An enraged Nazarbayev stripped his son-in-law of the ambassadorship and dispatched a group of top law enforcers aboard a special flight to bring the culprit home. They came back empty-handed. "Under the circumstances," Aliyev explained yesterday in a phone interview from Vienna to a Kazakh online magazine, "only a suicide will come...
...draws an analogy between Soviet republics and Harvard’s different “tubs”, each of differing sizes and resources—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences being like Russia, the largest, with other faculties like Law and Business akin to the likes of Kazakhstan and the Ukraine.This unequal balance of power across the University is reflected in Harvard’s library system. Verba himself is hard pressed to describe the process of building consensus on the University Library Council, the group of librarians heading the different faculty libraries. Verba emphasized the consensus-building...