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Behind the mecenatismo of a former prime minister, Kazakhstan’s opposition figures find a new platform in Brussels.
The impetus to keep hammering away at the international film market has come from President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
President Trump says he surrounds himself with the best people, though the cast of characters around him and his campaign has also included a very particular subset, post-Soviet oligarchs.
Every five to 10 minutes, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week, a fresh group of Uzbek pilgrims troops into the tomb of their late president, the dictator Islam Karimov, to pay homage at his white onyx sarcophagus, and listen to prayers chanted in his honor.