Kazakhstan

My sources from this country tell me that the President is half way to becoming their Henry VIII. He sired three daughters by his first wife, two daughters by his second wife and a son by his third wife. I am also reliably told that rumours about his fatherhood of his third wife's son are scurrilous and completely untrue. It also seems that the claims made against him in the US courts are being set aside as he tries to rehabilitate his regime but I wonder whether Days of Rage are likely to manifest themselves in Kazakhstan and other similarly 'democratic' countries in the old Soviet empire or whether they will all be put down with the ferocity that the Russians are famous for in order to maintain their hegemony in that part of the world. Proper democracy has yet to bloom in Russia's tragic garden.