Kazakh Ruler Says Take a Deep Breath and Forget About the Dollar
- Nazarbayev urges nation to ignore tenge's plunge, shop local
- Some food prices are falling despite inflation, president says
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev has some new advice for Kazakhs coping with the fallout from the tenge’s record slump against the dollar: Just forget about it.
“Let’s stop, take a deep breath as the yoga people say and forget about the dollar,” Nazarbayev told a televised meeting of his ruling Nur Otan party in the capital, Astana, on Friday. “We live on the tenge in Kazakhstan.”