Elbasy is tired

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Poland did not invite Putin to celebrations about the 80th anniversary of the beginning of World War II. This is nothing - the main thing is to call Germany, Business Before pleasure . A tectonic shift occurred in the world:

• Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned the powers of the President of Kazakhstan, but retained many other posts.
• In Russia, a new wave of resignation of governors began. The heads of Chelyabinsk (officially) and the Murmansk (according to rumors) regions have already gone, today it will continue.
• The Netherlands police are inclined to the fact that the shooting in the tram in Utrecht was a terrorist attack. The alleged accomplice of the shooter was detained.
• Marlene Khutsiev died, he was 93 years old.

Leave to stay

Today in Astana there will be a solemn transfer of presidential powers from Nursultan Nazarbayev, head of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Kasimu-Zhomart Tokaev. Nazarbayev announced the addition of presidential powers in a television show. At the same time, he remains the head of the ruling party “Nur Otan”, the head of the Security Council, a member of the Constitutional Council, as well as “Elbasy”, the leader of the nation. Nazarbayev is 79 years old, and according to rumors, he is seriously ill.

Nazarbayev’s resignation was carefully planned: the powers of the president were cut in favor of the parliament, and the status of the Security Council, whose lifelong head of Nazarbayev, was significantly increased.

The successor of Nazarbayev Kasim-Zhomart Tokaev is a professional diplomat who worked in the UN and in various positions in the government of Kazakhstan. He will remain president before the elections that will be held in the spring of 2020, during this period he will not have the authority to initiate amendments to the Constitution, and the rest he is a full -fledged president.

There are speculations about who can become the successor of Nazarbayev according to the election results (probably, this word should be put in quotation marks for the absence of an opposition in the country), and here is a chronicle of the 29-year-old reign of Elbasy. After Nazarbayev’s resignation, the most long -ruled leader in the post -Soviet space became President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

Governor, how sweet smoke smells

In Russia, a new wave of the resignation of the heads of regions began - the governors of the Chelyabinsk and Murmansk regions went to Tuesday, then the departure of the head of the Altai Republic and several other regional chiefs are expected. All this is done under the elections that will be held in September in 18 regions. In parallel, a serious reduction in the number of federal employees is being prepared : it is planned to dismiss every twentieth every year.

In Yakutsk, after the leadership’s promises , to start a massive check of migrants for routes from 80 to 90 buses, vegetable shops did not open. In the Leningrad region they detained a student who promised to arrange shooting at college.

Shooting in Utrecht

The Netherlands police are inclined to the terrorist version of the shooting in Utrecht, the victims of which became three people and five people were injured. In the car on which the suspect tried to hide, a letter was found, the contents of which, coupled with other evidence, may indicate that it was a terrorist attack. The alleged accomplice of the shooter was detained . Two other men detained earlier are released.

Culture and science, songs and dances

• La Scala refused to accept 15 million euros from Saudi Arabia and provide a place in the Council of Directors to the Minister of Culture of the Kingdom. After the murder of the journalist Khashoggi, it was somehow not good, and even before it was not very .
• The court in Moscow recognized the legitimate blocking of the Husky clip “Judas”, because “in the video a method of the so -called“ laying ”narcotic substances is carried out. In court , such a scientific dispute took place.
• The Russian Ministry of Finance refused to allocate a billion rubles to the Russian Academy of Sciences for international projects and the popularization of knowledge, because the Ministry of Finance is not clear how it will be distributed.
• The prestigious mathematical award of Abel was first received by a woman - a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin Karen Ulenbek. They write, she is the founder of modern geometric analysis.

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