Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's decision to fire his son-in-law for mishandling an oil workers' strike is a signal to would-be successors that the veteran leader is not ready to relinquish his firm grip on power in the Central Asian state.

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/23/us-kazakhstan-succession-idUSTRE7BM0M820111223