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Accreditation Council

The Accreditation Council of the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR) is an advisory body, established for the collegial review of materials submitted by educational organizations that implement educational programs for secondary, technical and vocational, higher and postgraduate education, institutions of further education, as well as for making decisions on institutional and/or specialized (program) accreditation.

The main tasks of the Accreditation Council:

  • review of materials of external quality assessment of educational organizations by an accreditation body for compliance with the declared status and established institutional standards of the IAAR;
  • review of the materials of external quality assessment of individual study programs implemented by the educational organization for compliance with the IAAR standards of specialized (program) accreditation;
  • support for the external and internal quality assurance system of the Agency;
  • decision making on accreditation or refusal to accredit an educational organization and (or) its study programs;
  • review of the expert panel’s interim reports on post-accreditation monitoring of educational organization and (or) study programs for the implementation of recommendations of the IAAR’s external expert panel.

Bolatbek Abdrasilov

Chair of the Accreditation Council

Director of the National Testing Center of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Academician of the Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

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Nadezhda Petukhova

Member of the Accreditation Council

Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Medical Association, Chairman of the Public Council on Health Issues, Member of the Political Council Bureau of the Amanat Party in Astana

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Dinar Nuketayeva

Member of the Accreditation Council

Council Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences

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Amantai Nurmagambetov

Member of the Accreditation Council

Advisor to the Director of the Higher Education Development National Center of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor

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Saule Kisikova

Member of the Accreditation Council

General Affairs Advisor, Medical Centre Hospital of the President's Affairs Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Master of Business Administration

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Aigul Isenova

Member of the Accreditation Council

Director for Hospital Business at JSC "Chimpharm", Candidate of Biological Sciences

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Gabit Kusainov

Member of the Accreditation Council

Leading Researcher of the National Academy of Education named after Y. Altynsarin, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor

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Ruiz-Zorrilla Cruzate Marc

Member of the Accreditation Council

Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona, Doctor of Philology (Spain)

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Matishev Aliakpar Bolatovich

Member of the Accreditation Council

Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs (NCE) of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Atameken"

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Ulan Nauken

Member of the Accreditation Council

Chairman of the Alliance of Students of Kazakhstan, Republican Student Ombudsman

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Turar Dildabek

Member of the Accreditation Council

Intern of the Kazakh State medical university named after S.D. Asfendiyarov

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Bolatbek Abdrasilov

Education:

  • Kzyl-Orda Pedagogical Institute named after N.V. Gogol (1979)

 

Professional experience:

  • Lecturer of the Physics Department of Kzyl-Orda Pedagogical Institute named after N.V. Gogol (09.1979-09.1980);
  • Research intern, seconded to Institute of Biological Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region (09.1980-09.1982);
  • Lecturer, Senior lecturer, Docent of Kzyl-Orda Pedagogical Institute named after N.V. Gogol (03.1986-11.1991);
  • Dean, Provost of Kyzylorda Pedagogical Institute named after Korkyt-Ata (11.1991-09.1994); 
  • Senior Researcher, seconded to Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region (09.1994-12.1996);
  • Rector of Kyzylorda Humanitarian University named after Korkyt-Ata (12.1996-04.1998);
  • First Provost, Professor of the department at Kyzylorda Humanitarian University named after Korkyt-Ata (04.1998-03.2000);
  • Director of  Information and Testing Center of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs, Astana (03.2000-01.2001);
  • Deputy Director of the Department of Monitoring and Control at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana (01.2001-08.2001);
  • Director of the Department of Higher and Postgraduate Education at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana (08.2001-11.2004);
  • Chairman of the Committee for Supervision and Certification in Education and Science at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (11.2004-02.2007);
  • State Inspector at the Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (02.2007-09.2010);
  • Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (09.2010-02.2012);
  • Rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (02.2012-07.2016);
  • Head of the Sector in the Civil Service and Personnel Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan (11.2016-03.2017);
  • Chairman of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science (03.2017-06.2018);
  • President of the International Kazakh-Turkish University named after Akhmed Yassawi, Turkestan (06.2018- 03.2021);
  • Rector of Karaganda Industrial University (03.2021-02.2024)
  • Director of the National Testing Center of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan (from 02.2024)

 

Achievements and publications:

  • Author of more than 60 scientific publications in leading journals in Australia, Russia, the Netherlands, South Korea, and other countries. Hirsch index – 4

 

Awards:

  • Order of Kurmet (2005);
  • Excellence in Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Honored Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
  • P. L. Kapitsa Medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN), Commemorative Medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences named after Nobel Laureate P. L. Kapitsa, and other jubilee medals;
  • Breastplate « For contributions to the development of science »

Nadezhda Petukhova

Education:

  •  Tselinograd State Medical Institute (1977)

 

Professional experience:

  • Deputy of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the 5th convocation, Member of the Committee for Social and Cultural Development of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2012-2016)
  • Chief Doctor of the City Children's Hospital No. 1 of Astana city (1988-2012)
  • Doctor-inspector, Head of Medical and Preventive sector, Deputy Head of the Tselinograd Regional Health Department (1981-1988)
  • District doctor-pediatrician, intern doctor of the Tselinograd City Children's Hospital (1977-1981) 

 

Social work:

  • Member of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan
  • Chairman of the Public Council for the Protection of Patients' Rights under the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2013)
  • Deputy of the Maslikhat of  Astana city (1999-2007)

 

Awards:

  • Order “Kurmet”,
  • Medals: "Astananyn 10 Zhyldygy", "Kazakhstan Republicasynyn Tauelsyzdygyne 10 Zhyl”, "Kazakhstan Constituciyasyna 10 Zhyl", "Kazakhstan Respublicasynyn Parlamentyne 10 Zhyl”, medals “Nur Otan” political party, “Belsendy kyzmeti ushin”, “Altyn Daryger”, Excellence in Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Dinar Nuketayeva

Education:

  • S.M. Kirov Kazakh State University (1985)
  • Academician Zholdasbekov Institute (2007)

Professional Experience:

  • Head of Department at the Republican State Enterprise on the Right of Economic Management "Technical College" of the Akimat of Astana city Rector of the Kazakh National Women's Teacher Training University (08.2011-06.2017)
  • Leading Specialist, Secretary of the Zhambyl District Maslikhat (1994-2004);
  • Inspector, Referent of the Zhambyl District Council of People's Deputies (SND),
  • Zhambyl District Administration (1992-1994); Chemistry teacher, after-school group educator at Ashibulak and Uzynagash Secondary Schools (1988-1991);
  • Kindergarten educator at Tiyumebayev Sovkhoz, Almaty region (1986-1988)

Public Activities:

  • Deputy of the Senate of the Parliament, Member of the Committee on Socio-Cultural Development and Science (2017-2023)
  • Deputy of the Almaty City Maslikhat, Chairman of the Standing Commission on Local Government and Legality (2016-2017);
  • Deputy of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the IV convocation (since 27.08.2007), Member of the Committee on Socio-Cultural Development, Chairman of the Committee on Socio-Cultural Development (2008-2011);
  • Deputy of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan from the electoral district No. 17 of Almaty region, Member of the Committee on Socio-Cultural Development of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Member of the parliamentary group "Auyl" (03.10.2004-20.06.2007);

Awards:

  • Order of Parasat, Order of Kurmet, Medal "10 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan", Medal "10 Years of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan", Medal "10 Years of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan", Honored Educator of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Medal "20 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan", Medal of the NDP "Nur Otan" "For Active Service", Badge "20 Years of Financial Police of Kazakhstan", Medal "20 Years of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan", Badge "20 Years of Police of Kazakhstan".

Amantai Nurmagambetov

Education:

  • Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov  
  • Kazakh State University. S. M. Kirov

 

Professional experience:

  • Director of the Bologna process and academic mobility сenter
  • Rector of Aktobe Regional State University named after K. Zhubanov
  • Rector of Aktobe State Pedagogical Institute
  • Director of the department of strategic planning and information technologies of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • work experience in state, party and economic bodies (Chief Inspector, Head of the Sector and State Inspector of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
  • experience of scientific and pedagogical work (Head of the International Cooperation Service of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Dean of the Preparatory Faculty for Foreign Citizens, Deputy Dean of the Preparatory Faculty for Foreign Citizens, Senior Researcher of the Faculty of Physics, Researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the AS KazSSR)

 

Public activities:

  • Chairman of the Public Council of the MES RK
  • Freelance Advisor to the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2019-2022)

 

Achievements and publications:

  • Doctor of political sciences, professor
  • Corresponding member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • More than 100 scientific articles and publications have been published, including in foreign publications

 

Awards:

  • The Order of Kurmet, 2017
  • Medal "Eren enbegi ushin", 2009
  • Jubilee medals
  • Badge of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Honorary Worker of Education", 2003
  • Badge "For Merits in the development of science of the Republic of Kazakhstan", 2022

Saule Kisikova

Education:

  • Almaty State Medical Institute (1986) Specialty "General medicine"
  • Kazakh National Agrarian University (2006) Specialty "Jurisprudence"
  • Kazakh National Agrarian University (2011) Specialty "Finance"
  • International Academy of Business (2015) Master of Business Administration

 

Professional experience:

  • General practitioner of the Central District Hospital in Alma-Ata region (1987-1994)
  • General practitioner, Head of the therapeutic and preventive and paid department, City Polyclinic No. 8, Almaty (1994-2004)
  • Head of the Association of Family Medical Complexes, Deputy Chief Physician for Organizational and Economic Issues of the RSE "Central Clinical Hospital of the Medical Center of the Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan", Almaty (2004-2012)
  • Chief Physician, First Deputy Chief Physician of RSE "Hospital of the Medical Center of the Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan", Astana (2012-2017)
  • Head of the Health Department of Akmola region, Kokshetau (2017-2019)
  • Head of the Public Health Department of Nur-Sultan (2019-2020)
  • Head of the Medical Center of the Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (13.07.2020-10.2022)
  • Head of the Department for Monitoring Orders of the Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana (12.10.2022 local time)

 

Achievements and publications:

  • Doctor of Medical Sciences
  • Author of more than 150 scientific papers

 

Public activities:

  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC "Central Clinical Hospital", Almaty

 

Awards:

  • The Order of Kurmet, 2015
  • badge "Excellent Health Worker" (2008), "For the Best Work"
  • Jubilee Medal "20 years of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan"

Aigul Isenova

Education:

  • Tselinograd Agricultural Institute

 

Professional experience:

  • Senior Lecturer, S. Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University
  • Manager for work with MPI, Amity International LLP
  • Regional Manager for Central Kazakhstan, JSC "Himpharm"
  • Strategic Manager for Key clients, JSC "Himpharm"
  • External Relations Manager, JSC "Himpharm"
  • Manager for the development of tenders and public relations of JSC "Himpharm"
  • Director of Hospital Business and Government Relations, JSC "Himpharm"

 

Achievements and publications:

  • Candidate of Biological Sciences
  • Member of the Committee of Pharmaceutical Medical Industry and Medical Services of NCE RK "Atameken"

 

Awards:

  • Badge "Excellent student of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan", 2017
  • Medal of NCE "For loyalty to the cause", 2022

Gabit Kusainov

Education:

  • Scientific degree - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (1994)

 

Professional experience:

  • Acting Head of the Department of Educational Programs, Senior Manager of the Educational Department, Department of Educational Programs of the Center for Pedagogical Measurements of the AEO “Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools”  (2012 - present)
  • Leading Researcher, Head of the Laboratory of Theory and Content of Textbooks of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center “Textbook” of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2008-2012)
  • Chief Specialist, Head of the Methodology and Labor Market Department of the Department of Labor and Employment under the the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2005-2008)
  • Vice-Rector of East Kazakhstan State Technical University named after D. Serikbaeva (2004-2005)
  • Chief specialist, Deputy Head of the Department State Standards and State Order, Head of the Higher Education Institutions, Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2000-2004)
  • Professor, Senior professor, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Pedagogy, Head of the Department of Ethnopedagogy and Ethnopsychology of East Kazakhstan State University (1988-2000)
  • Teacher of Russian language and literature at secondary school named after Lenin in Tarbagatai region in East Kazakhstan region (1981-1988)

 

Achievements and publications:

  • Academic degree - Associate Professor (VAK, 1999)
  • Chief Expert of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center "Textbook"
  • Author of more than 140 scientific and methodical papers

 

Awards:

  • Bedge “Ibyrai Altynsarin” (2011)

Ruiz-Zorrilla Cruzate Marc

Education:

  • Saint Petersburg State University PhD – Specialty "Slavic Philology" (2005)
  • Saint Petersburg State University Postgraduate Studies 10.02.01 – Russian Language (1997)
  • University of Barcelona – Specialist Degree "English Philology" (1992)

 

Professional Experience:

  • Russian as a Foreign Language Lecturer at the University of Barcelona (Spain) (1999-2025)
  • Lecturer for the Legal Translation course within the master's program "Master's Degree in Specialized Russian-Spanish Translation" at the University of Cadiz (Spain) (2022-2025)
  • Lecturer for the Russian to Spanish Translation course within the master's program "Master's Degree in Intercultural Communication, Interpreting and Translation in Public Services" at the University of Alcalá de Henares (Spain) (2019-2022)
  • Director for Internationalization at Karaganda State Medical University (Kazakhstan) (2018-2019)
  • Vice-Rectorate for International Policy at the University of Barcelona (Spain) (2013-2017)
  • Director of the International Summer School at the University of Barcelona (Spain) (2013-2017)
  • Russian as a Foreign Language Lecturer at Escola Universitària del Maresme (Spain) (1997-1999)
  • Spanish and Catalan as a Foreign Language Lecturer at Saint Petersburg State University (Russia) (1993-1997)
  • Spanish as a Foreign Language Lecturer at A.I. Herzen Saint Petersburg State Pedagogical University (Russia) (1993-1995)

 

Public Activities:

  • Vice-Chairman of the Association of Russianists of Spain (2016-2025)
  • Member of the International Committee of Slavists (2012-2025)

 

Achievements and Publications:

  • Sworn Translator of the Russian Language for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain (since 2003)
  • Author of the Russian-Spanish Spanish-Russian dictionary Diccionario ruso-español español-ruso Pocket Herder (2005)
  • Author of the Russian-Spanish Spanish-Russian dictionary Diccionario ruso-español español-ruso Compacto Herder (2022)

Matishev Aliakpar Bolatovich

Education:

  • Karaganda Polytechnic Institute (1984)
  • Kazakh State Academy of Management (2001)

 

Professional Experience:

  • Deputy Director of the Regional Chamber of Entrepreneurs "Atameken" for Astana city (2024-present)
  • Chairman of the Republican Public Association (RPA) "Branch Trade Union of Medicine Workers and Related Industries 'QAZMED'" (2022-2024)
  • Chairman of the Public Association (PA) "National Society for Consumer Rights Protection 'SAPA'" (since 2018)
  • Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Consumer Rights of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan (08.2014-06.2017);
  • Deputy Chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the Protection of Competition (Antimonopoly Agency) (02.2012-08.2014);
  • Executive Director of the Association of Legal Entities "Kazakhstan Association of Oil and Gas and Energy Complex Organizations 'KAZENERGY'" (2010-02.2012);
  • President of "Center for the Development and Protection of Competition Policy" JSC (2009-2010);
  • Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Competition of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2004-2008);
  • Director of the Department of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Regulation of Natural Monopolies, Protection of Competition, and Support of Small Business for Astana city (12.1999-2004);
  • Deputy Chairman of the Committee for the Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Protection of Competition for Astana city (1998-12.1999);
  • Work in commercial structures (1990-1998);
  • First Secretary of the Zhezqazghan City Committee of the Leninist Young Communist League of Kazakhstan (LKSМ) (1988-1990);
  • Chief Power Engineer of the State Committee for Oil Products (Goskomnefteprodukt) Administration (1984-1988);

 

Public Activities:

  • "S.D. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University" JSC — Independent Director (2021–2024)
  • "National Geological Service" JSC — Independent Director (2022–2023)
  • "State Social Insurance Fund" JSC — Independent Director

 

Awards:

  • Order of "Kurmet"
  • Medals: "10 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "10 Years of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "20 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "For Contribution to the Creation of the Eurasian Economic Union" II degree, "Astana – 10 Years", "25 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan",
  • "110 Years of KTZ" Badge of Honor "Uzdik Memlekettik Kyzmetshi" (Excellent Civil Servant)

Ulan Nauken

Education:

  • Master's Degree student of the educational program "Political Science" of the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University

 

Achievements:

  • Letter of thanks from the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan K. K. Tokayev (2023)
  • Letter of thanks from the Minister of MIRD D.K.Kydyrali (2023)
  • Letter of thanks from the Minister of MSHER S. Nurbek (2023)
  • Letter of thanks from the Vice-Minister of MFES Sh.T.Karinov (2022)
  • Letter of thanks from the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs А.С. Danilov (2022)

 

Social activities:

  • 2019-2020  - Chairman of THE FENIX SOCIOLOGISTS CLUB
  • 2019-2021 гг. – Assistant to the Deputy Chairman of the ALMATY REGIONAL BRANCH of THE NUR OTAN PARTY
  • 2021-2022 гг. - Deputy Chairman of THE ASTANA CITY BRANCH OF THE ALLIANCE OF STUDENTS OF KAZAKHSTAN
  • 2022-2023 гг.- Chairman of the Astana city branch of the Alliance of Students of Kazakhstan
  • 2022- present time - Member of the Student Council under the Minister of Foreign Affairs Member of the Student Council under the Minister of Foreign Affairs Member of the Student Council under the Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • 2023 – present time - Chairman of the ALLIANCE OF STUDENTS OF KAZAKHSTAN

Turar Dildabek

Education:

  • intern of the Kazakh State medical university named after S.D. Asfendiyarov

Аchievement:

  • Certificate for participation in the training seminar "New global WFMO standards for quality improvement: National Specification of Basic and postgraduate medical education" with the participation of the past-President of the WFME (2015-2022) By David Gordon. (June 20, 2023)
  • Presentation of the publication at the APMEC conference in Singapore (May 21-26, 2023)
  • Participation in the 72nd WFMO General Assembly in Tallinn, Estonia (March 1-7, 2023)
  • Chairman of the first "Theoretical and Practical Forum SCOME Camp" on basic clinical skills, first aid training, and participation in medical education in Astana, Kazakhstan (March 24-27, 2021)
  • Professional internship in Thoracic surgery in Casablanca, Morocco (August 4-31, 2023)
  • Participation in the 71st World Assembly of the Federation of Medical Students in Istanbul, Turkey (August 1-7, 2022г.)
  • Professional internship in orthopedic surgery in Nancy, France (July 4-29, 2022)
  • Diploma of the 1st degree for participation in the Olympiad II MedUse (December 12, 2021)
  • Diploma of the 2nd degree for participation in the morphological online Olympiad (October 20, 2021)
  • Diploma for the 3rd place in the online student Olympiad in microbiology (May 25, 2021)
  • Presentation of the publication in Riga, Latvia (April 24, 2021)
  • Presentation of the publication at the VIII International Youth Medical Forum "Medicine of the Future in the Arctic" (April 22-23, 2021)
  • Professional practice at MC "HAK" in Almaty (June 2021)

Social activities:

  • SCOME Regional Assistant for Medical Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (SCOME RA AP) in the public organization "World Federation of Medical Students Associations" (IFMSA), 2022-2023 годы
  • Chairman of the first "Theoretical and Practical Forum SCOME Camp" on basic clinical skills, first aid training, and participation in medical education in Astana, Kazakhstan (March 24-27, 2021)
  • National Officer for Medical Education (NOME) in the Republican public association "Kazakhstan Organization of Medical Youth", 2021-2022
  • Assistant to the National Officer for Medical Education (NOME-A) in the republican public association "Kazakhstan Organization of Medical Youth", 2020-2021
  • Local Medical Education Officer (LOME) in the Republican public association "Kazakhstan Organization of Medical Youth", 2019-2020

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