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Kazakhstan replaces ex-leader with eagle on banknote

The old design of a 20,000 tenge banknote with a portrait of Kazakh ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev, which was removed in the new design of the banknote, is seen in a handout picture released by the National Bank of Kazakhstan September 30, 2022. The National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan/Handout via REUTERS

Kazakhstan’s central bank presented a new banknote design on Friday, identical to an older one with one major exception - ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s portrait has been replaced with an eagle silhouette.

The move is the latest step taken by the oil-rich Central Asian nation to dismantle the personality cult of its former leader whose era ended with violent unrest this year.

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