General Zhomart Mazhrenov spent more than 25 years in the service of the Soviet KGB, then Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB). But on July 8, after a few weeks in a prison cell, the general decided to end it all — and hang himself. Mazhrenov, it seems, had become ensnared in a power struggle between Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev and his disgraced former son-in-law, Rakhat Aliev. Full Story
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