Kazakhstan is not the US.  We are highly unlikely to see a public uprising in Kazakhstan over this when the country has had the same president since 1991 and rubber-stamp parliament.  Protests in 2011 were quelled by gunning down protestors (see below).<p><i>Nazarbayev, re-elected in a barely contested election to a fifth term on Sunday, was born to a peasant family. He trained as an engineer before rising through the ranks of the Kazakh Communist Party to head it in 1989 and was elected president on the eve of the Soviet breakup in 1991.<p>Since then, his power has become absolute, with resounding, but internationally criticised election victories in 1999, 2005 and 2011. There is no obvious succession plan in place and there are no clear alternatives to Nazarbayev&#x27;s rule...</i><p><i>In 2011, however, a pay dispute in the oil sector turned violent with government troops shooting dead 15 protesters and injuring over a hundred</i><p>[source:] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.yahoo.com&#x2F;nazarbayev-kazakhstans-moderniser-authoritarian-streak-093944342.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.yahoo.com&#x2F;nazarbayev-kazakhstans-moderniser-auth...</a>