ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Bolat Atabaev, a noted Kazakh theater director and outspoken critic of the Kazakh government, has died at the age of 69.
Activists and human rights groups in the Central Asian nation’s largest city, Almaty, said on July 29 that Atabaev died of an unspecified medical condition in hospital.
Earlier in July, reports said that Atabaev had been hospitalized and placed in an intensive care u