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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Mansur Mirovalev

‘I was naive about Russia’: Central Asians on the Ukraine war

A volunteer places parts of a yurt, a traditional nomadic tent that can be used to keep people warm in freezing weather, in a truck while preparing a shipment of aid for residents of Ukraine, in the village of Kainazar in Kazakhstan's Almaty region [File: Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Serik Talipzhanov does not like Russia any more.

The 32-year-old bank cashier lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s former capital and the financial hub of ex-Soviet Central Asia.

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