Actually Nazarbayev avoided it because he represents the status quo, and the status quo is pretty good for the Kazakhs -- booming economy and low ethnic tensions.
--- Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll have a GooChy shoe tree please...
>
> Courtesy Google News Alerts: Central Asia
>
> <...>
> You've got to hand it to Nursultan Nazarbayev, the
> "democratically"
> elected president of Kazakhstan. The revolution he
> feared would come
> to his country, as in so many other former Soviet
> republics recently,
> has come and gone. Nazarbayev didn't need guns for
> the battle. He won
> it by letting a Gucci clothing store open in what
> was once the land of
> Genghis Khan. Along with Gucci came Baskin-Robbins
> ice cream, a Subaru
> dealership and sushi restaurants.
>
> <MORE >>>
>
http://www.mondoshoes.com/en/notizie/newsdeteil.asp?ID=1890
>
> --
> Leigh
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