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Kazakhstan: What Rakhat Knows

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 @ 04:47 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Kazakhstan
Topics:: Politics
Languages:: English

Adam reviews the Wall Street Journal article, telling that in 2003 Dariga Nazarbayeva, elder daughter of the Kazakhstan president, hired an American consulting firm to collect data on the Kazakhgate trial, a probe into corruption among top Kazakh officials.

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