The Washington Post, July 22nd, 2002
Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, gave an interview to The Washington Post earlier this month in Astana, the capital. Some excerpts: On democratization of Kazakhstan: "They have been criticizing us for the entire 10 years [of independence]. It always surprised me -- why are you criticizing us for these 10 years? We declared that we were going to create a free country with democratic principles, a civil society. Did anybody really think that we could immediately achieve the standard that exists in your country, or in Europe? The United States of America celebrated its 226th bir...
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