A call to then Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov
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Ambassador Erlan Idrissov
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Kazakhstan's favourite son: Vinokourov enjoys super-star
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Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov has had to get accustomed
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Alexandre Vinokourov's hopes of making his nation proud took a battering when he crashed on a stage last week.
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Vinokourov has a body guard at the Tour de France to prevent
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The Kazakh government wants to counteract the image
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Astana's centerpiece: The 253-foot high Norman Foster-designed Pyramid of Peace.
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Astana literally means high-tech, and while still a young nation, its determined to put its name on the map.
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While Alexandre Vinokourov's Tour de France victory hopes may have dimmed, countryman Andrey Kashechkin
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