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THE NEW YORK TIMES
June 15, 2008
Chingiz Aitmatov, a Communist writer whose novels and plays before the collapse of the Soviet Union gave a voice to the people of the remote Soviet republic of Kyrgyz, and who later became a diplomat and a friend and adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, died on Tuesday in Nuremberg, Germany. He was 79 and lived in Bishkek, the capital of what is now Kyrgyzstan.
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