Leonid Komarovskiy
Life is complicated, yet fun. Only recently I had an opportunity to tell a story about an erupted in our outskirts a Deputy from the Russian LDPR-party, Ashot Egiazaryane, who escaped from Moscow because of charges of fraud and who is now hanging out in California, fooling as a second Khodorkovskiy and requests political asylum. And here is a no less entertaining story about a Kazakh boy, Daniyar Nazarbayev. Also a complicated one... absurdly.
Kazakhmys has come under fire from an anti-corruption watchdog over fears that it is controlled by Kazakhstan's totalitarian ruler.
BTA Bank, the bailed-out Kazakh lender seeking to recover assets for international creditors, can continue its $4 billion fraud lawsuit against ousted Chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov, a U.K. judge ruled.
Verny Capital, the Kazakh private equity firm whose lead investor is billionaire Bulat Utemuratov, has bought Moscow's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, ahead of a $3.2bn payout from the Glencore IPO.
Der autoritär regierende Präsident Nasarbajew bleibt mindestens bis 2016 im Amt. Die Wahlen hätten den "demokratischen Charakter" Kasachstans bewiesen.
In Kasachstan wird Herrscher Nasarbajew mindestens fünf weitere Jahre regieren. Die OSZE kritisierte die Präsidentenwahlen scharf - und prangerte massive Fälschungen an.
