Paul Blumenthal, Zach Carter, Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Jessica Schulberg, Nick Baumann
The American engineering and construction firm KBR hired Unaoil -- an obscure Monaco-based company now involved in a massive international bribery scandal -- to help it win oil and gas contracts in Kazakhstan. KBR, which until 2007 was part of the oilfield services giant Halliburton, paid Unaoil millions of dollars from 2004 until at least 2009, according to thousands of internal documents obtained by The Huffington Post.
Most people immediately think about the Mideast or North Africa when they hear the name "Islamic State." But the terror militia also has an eye on the former Soviet republics in Central Asia.
Eurasianism is a sea comprised of many rivers that flow into it.
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?
