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Nurlan Motuev

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Nurlan Motuev is a Kyrgyz politician from the Jumgal area of Naryn province, popularly nicknamed the King of Coal after seizing control of the Karakeche coal mines during 2005.[1] One of the activists behind the 2006 revolution, he later went on trial and was jailed but rebounded to become a presidential candidate for the 2009 elections, receiving 21,724 (0.93%) votes.[2] In October 2012 his newly formed Patriotic Movement called for the nationalization of Kyrgyzstan's mineral resources.[3]

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