‘I have not gone anywhere’: former Kazakh leader denies fleeing country

Kazakhstan’s former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has made his first appearance since unrest broke out in the country earlier this month, in a stilted video in which he denied reports that he had fled the country, or that there was a split in the country’s elites. Instead, Nazarbayev insisted, he had merely been having “a deserved rest”.Nazarbayev ruled Kazakhstan from independence in 1991