Kazakhstan President Shuts Down the Cabinet

AKIPRESS.COM - Nursultan Nazarbayev has fired Bakytzhan Sagintayev's government for a failure to raise living standards and diversify away from oil and gas.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev says on the presidential website he will soon propose "a range of measures to strengthen social welfare and raise people's quality of life."Nazarbayev says the focus will be on more support for the poor, improving living conditions and regional development.

Poor families, he says, are seeing stagnant incomes and spending more of their earnings on food. The announcement follows a wave of...