Blair Advised Kazakhstan Leader After Massacre

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair “gave Kazakhstan’s autocratic president advice on how to manage his image after the slaughter of unarmed civilians protesting against his regime,” the Telegraph reports.

“In a letter to Nursultan Nazarbayev… Mr Blair told the Kazakh president that the deaths of 14 protesters ‘tragic though they were, should not obscure the enormous progress’ his country had made. Mr Blair, who is paid millions of pounds a year to give advice to Mr Nazarbayev, goes on to suggest key passages to insert into a speech the president was giving at the University of Cambridge, to defend the action.”