What's fuelling the protests in Kazakhstan?
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Kasaksdan - A Brief History
Why would a president feel he could trust russian troops more than his own? Why was the country so quick to turn fuel protests into a national uprising? To understand what happened in the last fortnight, we really have to look back at how casok an has been governed over the last three decades. The man who shaped the country and many of its problems during that period was its first president, nur sultan nazabif. i received a phone call from a literary agent for whom i had already written a book on a completely different subject, saying, would you like to ghost rite the autobiography of the president of kasak stan? That's quite an offer. It is
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