Nazarbayev's re-election will boost Kazakh 'siloviki'
Succession issue and need to maintain an increasingly shaky status quo will empower security services further
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- Powerful security organisation
- History and structure
- Abykayev in charge
- Political tool at Nazarbayev's service
- Sarsenbayev's murder
- Anti-Ablyazov campaign
- Key role in future transition
- Family affair
- Future kingmaker?
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_350.jpg "Nazarbayev at a post-election rally in Astana (REUTERS/Mukhtar Kholdorbekov)")