While KBR was being investigated for bribery in Nigeria, it was partnering with a company that bribed officials in Kazakhstan.

Activity analysis of the Pro-Russian movement in Kazakhstan showed significant growth of threats to state sovereignty and to the current leadership of this country, which has emerged in the last year and a half. Today on the territory of Kazakhstan formed the conditions for running scenarios similar to the Crimean. 

Not only was the recent election more of the same, but Astana seems to have roped the same experts into praising it.

Nursultan Nazarbayev has presided over Kazakhstan since 1989. During that span, the president consolidated his grip on power over the media, the economy, and the political process, amassing a slew of of landslide victories for himself and his loyal, rubber stamp legislature. But as the 75-year-old autocrat now enters the twilight of his rule, one question looms large for the fate of the nation of Kazakhstan and its vast oil-wealth: Who, or what, comes after Nazarbayev?

Kazakhstan’s ageing President Nursultan Nazarbayev said his oil-rich nation may become a parliamentary republic... but with his daughter at the helm.

Leader says Asia is about "family relations" not democracy as he vows to turn Kazakhstan into a parliamentary republic.