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Demise of the Petrostates
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- Written by CHRIS MILLER
The oil price crash is an existential threat to petrostates from Nigeria to Iran, where governments rely on oil wealth to stabilize power and pay off competing interests.
Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev family’s luxury UK assets come to light
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- Written by EURASIANET
The ex-president's daughter and grandson hold $103 million in real estate assets in London.
U.K. Takes Fight To Kazakhstan’s Wealthy Elite Over Unexplained ‘Billionaires’ Row’ Mansion
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- Written by David Dawkins, Forbes Staff
A mansion owned by Nurali Aliyev, the grandson of Kazakhstan’s former President Nursultan Nazarbayev has been “frozen” by the U.K.’s High Court after the second use of a so-called ‘McMafia’ Wealth Order.
Behind Pompeo’s Big ‘We Care’ Trip to Ukraine
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- Written by REID STANDISH, ROBBIE GRAMER
Hobbled by the impeachment trial, the U.S. secretary of state faces the tricky task of explaining a Trump administration policy that has often looked two-faced.
Nurali Aliyev: the man being groomed for power
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- Written by Marc Bennetts, Moscow
Nurali Aliyev, 35, was born into a family that has ruled Kazakhstan, an oil-rich former Soviet republic in Central Asia, with an iron fist for three decades.
China BRI Ventures Run Into Trouble in Kazakhstan
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- Written by Yigal Chazan
A trade and investment partnership between China and Kazakhstan, seen as key to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Central Asia, is creaking as flagship projects run into trouble and Kazakhs voice distrust of their eastern neighbour’s economic overtures.
Plush London homes 'were bought with McMafia cash'
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- Written by Ben Ellery
Millions of pounds extorted by a former Kazakh police chief via “old school post-Soviet raids involving murder” were used to buy three London homes, a court was told yesterday.
Russia’s Strategy in Central Asia: Inviting India to Balance China
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- Written by Yuan Jiang
Russia’s invitation for India to link up with Eurasian Economic Union recalls the SCO expansion saga.
Kazakhstan’s president says democracy is on its way
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- Written by The Economist
But the riot police seem to have arrived first
Head of press regulator advised Kazakh regime that suppresses free speech
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- Written by Mark Townsend
New Ipso chief Lord Faulks worked at commercial court under former authoritarian leader Nursultan Nazarbayev
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