Kazakhstan has enjoyed a reputation as one of Central Asia’s most democratic and economically promising countries. Despite recent power-grabbing moves by the president, the country has just been promised a billion-dollar international aid packageby BRUCE PANNIER IN EARLY MAY, ALMATY WAS getting a quick face-lift in preparation for the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War […]

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