A torch has been passed from the only president Kazakhstan has had in the post-Soviet era to a hand-picked successor, putting Central Asia’s largest and most dominant country at a dramatic crossroads.
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Eric J. Lyman — Special to The Washington Times
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EURASIANET
Instructors at the Kazakh National Medical University in Almaty have always been candid with their freshmen.
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By Bruce Pannier
Wake up, Kazakhstan.
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Ford Foundation
This animation grew out of one program officer's desire to articulate a clear, compelling and concise theory of social change--and to share and discuss it with others.
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Mariya Gordeyeva and Olzhas Auyezov
Police officers block opposition supporters during a protest against presidential election
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AFP
In a country tightly run by one man for three decades, even small protests are a rarity.
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RFE/RL's Kazakh Service
Reports from Kazakhstan say authorities have been arresting demonstrators in some districts of the country's largest city, Almaty, after hundreds of people gathered to protest the official results of the June 9 presidential election.