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ASTANA - Police arrested dozens of opposition supporters staging rallies in Kazakhstan’s two major cities on Friday, three days after the surprise resignation of veteran leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, according to Reuters witnesses.
Nazarbayev’s foe, fugitive banker and opposition politician Mukhtar Ablyazov who organized the protests, has accused the 78-year-old politician of planning a dynastic succession that would see his daughter succeed him. Although there were no slogans, chants or banners, some participants shouted they opposed Astana’s renaming. Tokayev, who assumed presidential powers until the current term ends in April 2020, said on Wednesday that Astana, the capital, would be renamed Nur-Sultan in Nazarbayev’s honor.
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