Nazarbayev's Fate in Kazakhstan Is a Cautionary Tale for Putin and Xi.

Kazakhstan's long-time leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, attempted a historically familiar ploy to avoid this kind of messiness when he stepped down in 2019, by naming a successor while he was still in good health and his authority was completely unchallenged. More even than most crises, the events unfolding in Kazakhstan in recent days (https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/30240/russiakazakhstan-relations-enter-the-post-nazarbayev-era) can be read in myriad ways. [Extracted from the article]