of the politician Victor Khrapunov
and businesswoman Leila Khrapunova’s family
shed light on many a detail of its founders fighting their way through the harsh realities
of the market patronized by government officials, and accumulating the company’s fixed assets,
building premises of its own and learning to do business with no shareholders whatever to rely on,
of the TV channel president’s foray into civil service and of what all this ended up in...
Regarding impartiality… The TAN president has always wanted television to stand alone,
without engaging in capricious dynamics of political games and making itself dependent on anyone”.
Kazakhstan Pravda, Edkard Zhilkibayev 23.12.1997
president Nursultan Nazarbayev does not forgive any Kazakhstani businesswomen independent
of his family their business success. It is practically impossible for the representatives
of “the weaker sex” other than the daughters, wives, relations and their personal business partners
from the Nazarbayev clan to achieve strong business results without repercussions which
Nazarbayev is bound to engineer to please the female part of his large family”.
Developments and publications
Causes behind the Khrapunov family political persecution
The history of my family’s persecution by the Kazakhstan president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, goes back to the time of my son Iliyas Khrapunov’s wedding to the daughter of Nazarbayev’s political opponent,…
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Threats against the Khrapunovs’ son
Ever since our son Iliyas’s wedding to Madina Ablyazova, Victor and I have regularly received threats of physical violence against our children, coming from Nazarbayev’s entourage
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Attempts to kidnap Victor Khrapunov from Switzerand
June 25 and November 3 2012, saw two attempts by Kazakhstan authorities to smuggle Victor Khtapunov out of Switzerland into countries more loyal to Kazakhstan than Switzerland in order to turn him over…
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Books by Kazakhstan opposition politician Viktor Khrapunov
In November 2013, Viktor Khrapunov’s book “Nazarbaev, Votre Ami le Dictateur” exposing the rule of corruption under Kazakhstan president Nazarbayev, was published in France
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Persecution in Kazakhstan of the Khrapunovs’ relatives and colleagues because of their family ties with opposition politician Ablyazov
February 2 2009 saw a forced nationalization of BTA Bank, in which Mukhtar Ablyazov, a political opponent of president Nazarbayev, who is now our son’s father-in-law, was the key shareholder
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«The History of the Huns»
«The History of Genghis Khan»
«Ulys Joshy – The Golden Horde»
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Oscar Wilde