Kazakhstan’s leader-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev made his first public appearance since deadly protests in early January led to a purge of his allies as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev sought to reassert control in the central Asian nation.
“There is no conflict or opposition within the elites,” Nazarbayev said in a recorded video statement posted Tuesday by his press office. “In 2019, I passed my presidential powers to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and have retired since.”
