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This month they pimped out Church House, the CofE's administrative headquarters, to the merchants of death for the staging of the chief of the air staff's air power conference 2012, organised by the Royal United Services Institute.
The despot in question, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, has, he eulogised, a combination of the toughness necessary to take decisions to put the country on the right path and a certain degree of subtlety and ingenuity that allowed him to manoeuvre in a region which is fraught with difficulties.
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