Word: nazar
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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...
Other students at the panel echoed Nazar Hamdan’s description of a post-Saddam Iraq plagued by insecurity...
...never imagined that one day we’d come and have to line up for gasoline,” Nazar Hamdan said of life under Saddam Hussein’s regime. “We never experienced a shortage of anything...
...Arwa Nazar Hamdan, one of the University of Baghdad students, said she was surprised to receive such a warm welcome, since she had expected to be viewed as a terrorist...
...never feel 100 percent safe in going to university and coming back,” said Arwa Hamdan, Nazar Hamdan’s daughter. “Any second, anything could happen. We’ve had several occasions where we’re sitting in lecture and explosions would happen nearby and windows would break...