Akezhan Kazhegeldin (Kazakh: Әкежан Мағжанұлы Қажыгелдин, Qazaq: Äkejan Mağjanulı Qajıgeldïn; born on 27 March 1952) served as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan until he resigned in October 1997, ostensibly for health reasons, though many saw it as an act protesting authoritarianism in Kazakhstan. He now heads the Republican People's Party of Kazakhstan, but lives in the West in exile. Adam Albion of Radio Free Europe characterized Kazhegeldin's efforts at democratizing Kazakhstan as "defiant, confrontational, and openly scornful of the idea" that Nursultan Nazarbaev, the President of Kazakhstan, "will ever share power willingly."
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2 March 1952 (age 73)
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