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Kasachstans Präsident heimlich in Israel – Krebsbehandlung?

Der kasachische Präsident Nursultan Nasarbajew hält sich seit mehreren Tagen heimlich in Israel auf – laut der israelischen Zeitung „Yedioth Ahronoth", um sich ärztlich behandeln zu lassen.

 

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Who Are The Apartment Owners at London’s One Hyde Park, The “World’s Most Expensive” Residential Development?

In an April Vanity Fair article which also investigates the complicated reasons why London has become a tax haven for the world’s mega-rich, Nicholas Shaxson reveals just who owns what in London’s One Hyde Park, the apartment building built by two British brothers, Nick and Christian Candy, together with Waterknights, the international property-development company owned by Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, where apartments go for nearly $12,000 per square foot.

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Aliyev klagt österreichische Politiker an. Vorwürfe: Der kasachische Ex-Botschafter legt eine Verteidigungsschrift vor.

Seit Jahren wird gegen den in Ungnade gefallenen Ex-Schwiegersohn von Kasachstans Staatschef Nasarbajew und früheren Botschafter in Österreich, Rakhat Aliyev, wegen Mordes und Geldwäsche ermittelt. Der ehemalige deutsche SPD-Innenminister Otto Schily hat erst kürzlich einen Haftbefehl für den inzwischen in Malta lebenden Aliyev gefordert, der den Namen seiner neuen Ehefrau – Shoraz – angenommen hat.

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Kazakhstan: The Evolution of a Power Structure

 

The question of succession in Kazakhstan has drawn greater attention as the country's long-serving leader Nursultan Nazarbayev advances in age. Nazarbayev has been in power for more than 20 years, and at 72 years old he is well past the average life expectancy for Kazakh males. Kazakhstan is important because of its strategic location -- flanked by Russia to the north and west and by China to the east -- and its sizeable energy and mineral resources. This gives the succession issue significant domestic and regional importance.

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Kasachstan: Nursultans ehrenwerte Gesellschaft

 

Tony Blair, Alfred Gusenbauer, Gerhard Schröder und jetzt auch Otto Schily: Eine Reihe prominenter Sozialisten und Sozialdemokraten verdingt sich für den kasachischen Autokraten Nursultan Nasarbajew und riskiert dabei ein Spiel mit doppeltem Boden – politisch, juristisch, aber auch moralisch.

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Affäre um Kasachen Rakhat Alijew kommt wieder in Schwung

 

rahatalijevWien. (sir) Sechs Jahre sind vergangen, seit in Kasachstan zwei hochrangige Bankmanager der Nurbank verschwunden sind. Vor zwei Jahren wurden ihre Leichen gefunden, sie waren stranguliert, zuvor gefoltert und schließlich vergraben worden. Noch im Jahr 2007 erließ Kasachstan einen internationalen Haftbefehl gegen den damaligen Botschafter in Wien, Rakhat Alijew, der einst Hauptaktionär der Nurbank war.

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Chuck Hagel's Think Tank, Its Donors, and Intellectual Independence

 

Last Friday the Atlantic Council, the Washington think tank chaired by Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for defense secretary, released a list of its foreign donors. The move came in response to a demand by 25 Republican senators ahead of a Senate vote on Hagel's confirmation. In a letter addressed to Hagel, the Council's president and CEO, Frederick Kempe, a former columnist at the Wall Street Journal, included the donor names as well as some details on the think tank's ethics policies.

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Kazakhstan Army to be used against swinging situation inside the country

 

Kazakhstan Army may be used against swinging the situation inside the country. President Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed to study the existing capacities of the country's Armed Forces and set several tasks to the law-enforcement authorities, Tengrinews.kz reports citing the President's official website.

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Arrest Warrant Issued For Missing Kazakh Provincial Governor

 

An arrest warrant has been issued for Bergei Rysqaliev, the former governor of Kazakhstan's western Atyrau Province.

 

 

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German intelligence service interested in Rakhat Aliyev

 

German intelligence service is interested in the former ambassador of Kazakhstan to Austria Rakhat Aliyev, Malta Today writes. Such information emerged in the parliamentary requests of the German Green Party's MP Viola von Cramon to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to the source, the deputy gained access to secret documents under condition of confidentiality.

Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation

Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation

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Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war

Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war

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Oil majors sued by Kazakh government over billions in revenue

Oil majors sued by Kazakh government over billions in revenue

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