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The article looks at Canadian hockey player Kevin Dallman's expulsion from Kazakhstan, where he has been playing for the Barys Astana team since 2008. The suspected cause of his expulsion is his wife Stacy Dallman's blog, in which she occasionally criticized the politics in Kazakhstan such as traffic cops' desire for bribes and political corruption in Asana.

The article examines the fact that Kazakhstan is poised in 2009 to take over the leadership of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the foremost human rights organization in the region. At issue is the poor human rights record in Kazakhstan under the leadership of its authoritarian president Nursultan Nazarbayev.

The article reports on the revelation that Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, and other officials had committed significant acts of corruption in office. The findings were revealed in a book by Rakhat Aliyev, a former intelligence operative in Kazakhstan and husband of Nazarbayev's daughter.

The article focuses on politics in Kazakhstan in 2007. A feud between the country's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and his former son-in-law, Rakhat Aliyev, is creating political unrest. Aliyev, a former senior intelligence official and banking tycoon, was considered a likely successor to the presidency until his divorce from Nazarbayev's daughter. Now, he will face a criminal trial, the result of an investigation ordered by Nazarbayev after allegations of corruption and kidnapping.