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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 16 > Chingiz Aitmatov, 79, wrote of life in USSR

Chingiz Aitmatov, 79, wrote of life in USSR

By Bruce Weber / The Bulletin
June 16, 2008

Chingiz Aitmatov, a Communist writer whose novels and plays before the collapse of the Soviet Union gave a voice to the people of the remote Soviet republic of Kyrgyz, and who later became a diplomat, friend and adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Nuremberg, Germany.....

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