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Novikova died violently under mysterious circumstances on June 19, 2004, after a fall from the Beirut apartment building where she lived. Her body was flown from
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Nobody has been charged in association with
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From jail, Aliyev denounced the
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and allegedly became romantically involved. Eyewitnesses who were close associates of Aliyev testified that
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140:"Kazakh Rakhatgate Thickens," Eurasianet (ISN/ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), August 10, 2007
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