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Also Known As Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev • Nursultan Nazarbaev
Born July 6, 1940 (age 86) • Kazakhstan
Title / Office president (1990-2019), Kazakhstan
Political Affiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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