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RFERL (7 February 2024)

By Chris Rickleton and RFE/RL's Kazakh Service

“Active work without formalities, bureaucracy, and unnecessary meetings. More deeds, fewer words.”

This was how Kazakhstan’s new Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov summed up his philosophy on government on February 6, the same day he was parachuted into the position from his prior role as President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev’s chief of staff.

The second sentence here is key: More deeds, fewer words.

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