Kazakhstan's first power handover in 3 decades met with protests

Kazakhstan has elected a new president for the first time since independence, but “the choreographed transfer of power was overshadowed by sustained protests,” Reid Standish writes in Foreign Policy.

Flashback: Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned in March after three decades in power. He had the capital city renamed in his honor on the way out the door, and he will loom over the country’s politics as long as he’s alive.