Kazakhstan poll will be about stability not succession
The president sees elections, even without a contest, as a way of testing and shoring up popular support
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- Intractable economic problems
- Stability risks
- Preventing protests
- Keeping Russia at bay
- Engineering the outcome
- Manufactured 'opposition'
- Political shifts
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_350.jpg "An election poster of ruling Nur Otan party depicting Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev ahead of the snap parliamentary election scheduled on March 20, Kazakhstan (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)")