Astana Days:

Tom Teicholz
Sep 8, 2018 · 25 min read

Kazakhstan’s Excellent Financial Adventure

The Expo Pavilion and home of the AIFC in Astana

I came. I saw. I ate horsemeat.

Over the course of a few days during the first week of July, Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, celebrated its 20th Anniversary and officially launched the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC), a bold plan to make this city of 1 Million people in a landlocked country of some 18 million citizens, the financial hub of Central Asia and…

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