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Kuat Akhmetov, whose YouTube channel became the cause of a resonant scandal, as apologies of Russian-speaking residents of the republic were posted on it, is a friend of presidential adviser Mukhtar Taizhan, who is a member of the National Council of Public Trust under the president, Readovka reports in its research. From 1997 to 2001, Taizhan worked in the presidential administration of Kazakhstan, then joined the opposition for a long time, until Tokayev appointed him to a new post in 2019.
Taizhan is a member of various advisory councils in the authorities. Akhmetov himself thanked him for his support. “Here, Mukhtar Taizhan is just there, I want to express my great gratitude to this person. Everything is reported to the head of the country, the president, ” Akhmetov said at one of the meetings.
It is worth noting that Taizhan, in response to the words of the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Dauren Abayev, who called “Akhmetov’s language raids” a manifestation of cave nationalism, ” stood up for the radical. “Is someone talking about the oppression of the Russian language in Kazakhstan? I’ve never seen it. Citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan have the right to demand to serve themselves in the state Kazakh language, ” Taizhan wrote in the Network.
Akhmetov also has other friends ,in particular, the heads of veteran organizations Yerlan Aldanazarov and Murat Mukhamedzhanov. It was their organization that contacted Akhmetov, and before that, Taizhan was nominated for the presidential election. Mukhamedzhanov is also known for his nationalist views. In May, hedefiantly tore the coat of arms of the USSR from the monument in Aktobe, and posted a video of the action on the Network. Veterans ‘ organizations are a powerful force fist, they are formed from those who took part in the armed conflict in Tajikistan, where more than 40 soldiers of Kazakhstan were killed, and can become a serious help for radicals in the political struggle.