Former boxing champion Musa Abdraim bravely stepped in to replace a frightened 21-year-old security guard who was being held at knifepoint at Almaty Airport.
Snowfall began as soon as we reached the hotel. The sight of cottony snowflakes falling from the pitch-dark sky is too surreal an experience to express in words.
The apology was framed within the context of a "tragic incident" that occurred over Russian airspace during a period of tensions with Ukrainian drones.