Kazakhstan’s Tokayev’s regime “has learned how to create the illusion of change while doing little of substance”, according to two analysts. “Big ideas—like that of a ‘new Kazakhstan’—have turned out to be simply efforts to fill the vacuum left by years of political stagnation. Genuine reform would entail the introduction of meaningful constraints on the power and privilege of Kazakhstan’s rulers. But the regime is obviously not ready for such a step,” write Aliya Tlegenova and Serik Beysembaev, in an assessment published by Carnegie Politika. Despite his pledges of change, Kazakh president of…