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Toqaev met in Astana on 6 September with a team of experts from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) who are reviewing the progress of joint projects in Kazakhstan that the bank is cofinancing. Those projects include reconstruction of the Almaty-Bishkek highway, which is being jointly funded by the ADB, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Kazakh government. The ADB has made loans totaling about $460 million to Kazakhstan over the past decade and plans to lend a further $120 million annually over the next three years.

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Following his visit to Chechnya, SPS leader Nemtsov traveled to Magas on 5 September to meet with Ingushetia's president, Ruslan Aushev, to discuss the optimum format for talks on ending the war in Chechnya. Nemtsov told Interfax after that discussion that both he and Aushev agree that Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov ought to be a party to those talks. But in view of the Russian leadership's rejection of Maskhadov as a negotiating partner, Nemtsov proposed that the Chechen people elect delegates to represent them at peace talks.

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Kazakhstan's Supreme Court sentenced Akezhan Kazhegeldin in absentia on 6 September to 10 years imprisonment on charges of abuse of his official position, tax evasion, and illegal possession of arms. The prosecution had demanded a 12-year sentence. Kazhegeldin's property in Kazakhstan has been confiscated, and he has been ordered to pay 1 billion tenges ($6.