Word: altynbek
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...opposition sustained a serious blow last February when its key leader, Altynbek Sarsenbayev - who had been Nazarbayev's Information Minister, secretary of the Security Council, and ambassador to Moscow - and two associates were murdered by a group of officers belonging to the National Security Committee (KNB), heir to the Soviet-era KGB. Late last month, a court found Yerzhan Utembayev, the former Senate chief of staff, guilty of putting out the contract on Sarsenbayev "for reasons of personal enmity," and sentenced him to 20 years. Nine others received sentences ranging from three years to life for complicity in the murder...
...from multiple gunshot wounds. The official inquiry said it was suicide. However, people still wonder how he could have managed to inflict several mortal wounds on himself and then shoot himself in the back of the head. The opposition sustained a serious blow last February when its key leader, Altynbek Sarsenbayev - who had been Nazarbayev's Information Minister, secretary of the Security Council, and ambassador to Moscow - and two associates were murdered by a group of officers belonging to the National Security Committee (knb), heir to the Soviet-era kgb. Late last month, a court found Yerzhan Utembayev, the former...
Along-smoldering clan war inside the inner circle of Kazakhstan's strongman President, Nursultan Nazar-bayev, has burst into the open. Last month, opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, and two aides were killed by state security ( knb) officers. The killing exposed rivalries among those bidding to succeed Nazarbayev, 65, Kazakhstan's leader since 1989. Though Nazarbayev just won a third seven-year term, Oleg Panfilov, a Moscow-based human-rights campaigner and expert on central Asia, says Sarsenbayev was seen as a challenge to other potential contenders for the presidency. According to many Kazakh and Russian newspapers and websites...
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