The Week in Kazakhstan: Shake It Off - Аналитический интернет-журнал Власть
Syrym Sharipkhanov, the minister of emergency situations appointed in June last year after forest fires ravaged the north-east of the country, could now be laid off, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on January 25. Tokayev said that Sharipkhanov’s work was not satisfactory and the ministry needed “a more practical approach.”