Nazarbaev's 20 Years In Power

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The future president, born in 1940, was the son of a shepherd.
 
Nursultan Nazarbaev, pictured here with his mother, has led Kazakhstan for 20 years. Nazarbaev (front left) began his rise through the Communist Party while working in a steel plant in northern Kazakhstan. He became the first secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in 1989, and was elected president a year later. Nazarbaev and Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin in 1990 Nazarbaev visits a farmer\'s fields in 1992. The new Presidential Palace in Astana has become a symbol of Kazakhstan\'s wealth under Nazarbaev\'s rule. A gold-plated statuette is inscribed with the Nazarbaev family tree. And his personality cult is enshrined in a statue -- one of many throughout Kazakhstan --on the shore of lake Issyk-Kul. An undated portrait of the president Nazarbaev meets with his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon in Astana in 2008. Nazarbaev celebrates his reelection in December 2005.
 

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