As he administered that education, schoolmaster Nazarbayev rapped knuckles energetically. In preparation for the series of hastily scheduled national elections then at issue, which were to begin on 1O October, Nazarbayev arranged prosecution for tax evasion of former prime minister and likely rival Akezhan Kazhegeldin. Kazakh courts obligingly disqualified Kazhegeldin's candidacy on the ground of his participating in an unsanctioned political meeting. Kazhegeldin left the country. Early in September, Russian authorities acted on a Kazakh extradition request by arresting Kazhegeldin when he arrived in Moscow on a flight from London(Miller & kine 1999).