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On an investment research trip to Kazakhstan in 1998, Adam Weiner decided in the spirit of adventure to take a side trip to Astana, the then–newly renamed and barely known national capital. Astana, as it turned out, was in the middle of nowhere, and airline service was practically nonexistent.

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