Kazakhstan's interim president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, bottom, and the country's major power factions will have an interest in maintaining policy continuity as long as former President Nursultan Nazarbayev, top, remains alive. Nazarbayev ended his nearly 30-year reign this week as the country's only post-Soviet president.
On the Record I think even God's patience snaps eventually. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Brexit On Our Radar Brexit D-Day Slides. British Prime Minister Theresa May will try for the third time to get her withdrawal agreement approved by Parliament next week. If she can (and that's a huge if considering that the House of Commons has already shot down the agreement twice and no substantive changes have been made to it) then the European Union will give the United Kingdom until May 22 to finalize the withdrawal and leave the bloc. More likely, the vote will fail, and the United Kingdom will then have until April 12 to present a new plan to the European Union. May will have little choice at this point to yield to Parliament to chart a new course through a series of "indicative votes.
