Aidar Akayev

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Aidar Askarovich Akayev (Kyrgyz: Айдар Аскарович Акаев; 20 February 1976 – 5 February 2020) was a Kyrgyz businessman and public figure. He was the son of former President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev and the first husband of Aliya Nazarbayeva, the youngest daughter of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. He was born on 20 February 1976 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). His father, Askar, was then a professor at the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics, where he met Aidar's mother Mayram. A year after his birth, Akayev and his family moved to the city of Frunze (now Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) in the Kyrgyz SSR. His father became president of the now-independent Kyrgyz Republic in October 1990. Aidar studied at the University of Maryland and graduated in 1998 with a degree in management and business. Moving back to Kyrgyzstan later that year, he became director of the Representative Office of Kazkommertsbank OJSC in Bishkek. He later moved to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he worked in Kazkommertsbank, which is the largest bank in the country. While working in Almaty, Akayev, who was then 24 years old, met 18-year-old Aliya Nazarbayeva, the daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and they married in 1999. The marriage was short-lived however, with the two separating in 2001. According to the BBC, the marriage was "seen by many people as a return to the old Central Asian tradition of cementing political ties with family ones." In February 2001, Akayev served as a chief Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Kyrgyzstan. From December 23, 2004 to March 30, 2005, he served as President of the National Olympic Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic as well as the President of the Boxing Federation of Kyrgyzstan concurrently. On January 18, 2005, Akayev filed an application for...