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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer in Shamalgan

‘His family robbed the country’: personality cult of ex-Kazakh leader crumbles

Kazakhstan's former president Nursultan Nazarbayev addresses the nation.
Kazakhstan's former president Nursultan Nazarbayev addresses the nation. Photograph: Press Office of Nursultan Nazarb

Walking through the home-town museum built to honour Nursultan Nazarbayev, the former Kazakhstan president who built a personality cult around his rule, there are few signs of the anger that swept across the central Asian country earlier this month.

Visitors to the imposing three-storey building in Shamalgan are treated to a maquette of the house where the young Nazarbayev grew up, a Mercedes that was part of his presidential motorcade in a glass box in the museum’s grounds, and family artefacts including a suit worn by his brother.

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