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Russian scientist and political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky tends to agree with those who believe that the first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has died. “It is very likely that he has gone to another world, and all we are seeing in this post-Soviet republic is the problem of the inheritance of power with the inevitable struggle for it” by opposing elites, “Satanovsky said. And dozens of signs along Nazarbayev Avenue were ripped off the streets of Alma-Ata, and literature dedicated to the first president and T-shirts with his likeness were removed from store shelves.
Satanovsky noted that Kazakhstan is a rich country and that the Americans are working there with the British, Germans and French, and the Turks with the Chinese and Russia have something left. Now Nazarbayev's relatives are losing their high position and leaving the country. “There is such confusion in the narrowest circle that one involuntarily recalls the death of Comrade Stalin and its consequences,” the political scientist writes on his Telegram channel.
Satansky also believes that the situation is far from over. According to him, the fight against law enforcement moved to the countryside. At the same time, despite assurances from the country's authorities, there was no security in Kazakhstan and no.
“Let's repeat: Kazakhstan has ceased to be the island of stability and order that it has looked like for so long and which many have sincerely considered,” the political scientist said. Satanovsky also notes that no one has yet answered the questions of whether Kazakhstan's current President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will retain the power with whom he will have to share that power, what awaits the peoples of Kazakhstan, whether the country is degrading to the level of “ordinary Asian atrocities”; what external players will do there.
The expert notes that in Kazakhstan, a lot of crime and the drug mafia and the educated urban population are too thin. In addition, there are far more Islamist radicals in the country than anyone can imagine.
Satanovsky believes that Nazarbayev's legacy will now be revised, but after a while his era will be remembered as “golden.” century & quot;
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