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Vedemosti cited its source as saying the Kaluga plant could be bought by Kazakhstan's Asia Auto, which is based in the eastern city of Oskemen.

“I found it quite alienating when I first came here,” says Aigerim Kagarmanova, a student at the local Nazarbayev University, who grew up in Oskemen in the east of Kazakhstan and now lives near the new Mega Silk Way mall, built as part of the Expo development.

In many, such as Oskemen in the industrial north-east, Russians outnumber Kazakhs.

A powerful gush of water had also washed away a bridge on a highway connecting Almaty with the eastern city of Oskemen.