Steve LeVine covers foreign affairs for BusinessWeek. He previously was correspondent for Central Asia and the Caucasus for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for 11 years. His first book, The Oil and the Glory, a history of the former Soviet Union through the lens of oil, was published in October 2007. Putin’s Labyrinth, his new book, profiles Russia through the lives and deaths of six Russians. It was released this week.

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Feud splits Kazakh ruling family

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has fired his son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev from the Foreign Service in what appears to be a growing power struggle.

Earlier, Mr Aliyev accused the leader of trying to silence him after he said he planned to run for the presidency.

What started as a family disagreement is now a major political scandal.

Earlier this week, President Nazarbayev ordered a criminal investigation into allegations his son-in-law was behind the kidnapping of two senior bankers.

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posted by Steve at 3:29 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Candy said...

Can Russia be trusted then? Does the book answer the question?

May 30, 2007 2:00 PM  

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