Not for long did the office of the Akim of the East-Kazakhstan Province remain vacant. Yermek Kosherbayev was assigned to the post, almost immediately after the resignation of the previous Akim, Daniyal Akhmetov, political veteran and heavy-weighter. That was Mr. Kosherbayev’s second assignment to a top-ranking position in the discussed province. Daniyar Ashimbayev discusses the new