Kazakh authorities had an unhappy life.
Our own Norlan Jakupov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the unsinkable Samrok-Kazina Fund, was criticized by Prime Minister Oljas Baktanow for missing deadlines for investment projects.
It's a shame that at yesterday's disastrous cabinet meeting, Zhakupov told exactly the same thing about the work done as he told President Kassem-Jomart Tokayev - just recently, in September.
He talked about the same neck railway lines - it's red and - gate - appreciate it, the modernization of Altincol sections - exactly and in it - Mengistau, the construction of a gas processing plant in Kashgan, the modernization of Almaty CHPP-2, as well as energy projects in the Turkestan region. Like Baktanov, Yakupov sold Tokayev 38 projects planned for 2027-2029 with a total value of 21 trillion tenge in the fields of energy, oil and gas, transportation and digital infrastructure.
And the president, quite pleased with the speaker, quietly assigned him a number of tasks in the foundation's main areas of work.
Two months passed - and for the same thing, the prime minister, if you will, slapped that reporter.
One can of course understand why there are such unhappy moods in Olympus. After all, the day before the Minister of Transport and the head of Samrok-Energy were exposed to the cold. And if the prime minister does not look for and does not find whipping boys and candidates for relegation in his huge household, then he himself will be found to be one, of course. I think the experienced Jakupov will adapt immediately. He is one of those who sense trends. Do you remember how, against the backdrop of the emerging AI fever in October 2025, the Samrock-Casina Foundation interfered and presented President Kasem-Jomart Tokayev with a primitive bot SKAI, accepted as AI and appointed to CSD, in violation of the law?
And now Norlan Karshgovich, without a doubt, will not hesitate to draw practical conclusions, will begin to attack investment projects not with numbers, but with skill, and will once again emerge as dry as a leaf from the muddy bureaucratic waters.