Politics and Social Movements
13 min
Nursultan Nazarbayev: From "Father of the Nation" to a Symbol of Stagnation - 30 Years of Power and Their Price
Thirty years in power made Nursultan Nazarbayev one of the most influential and controversial leaders in the post-Soviet space. He built a new capital, turned Kazakhstan into an oil giant, and created a cult of personality, but left the country with a clan-based economy, inequality, and an authoritarian system. Why the era of the Elbasy ended the way it did - read in our in-depth analysis.