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Not really. Khudobin never played for Kazakhstan. He is also an ethnic russian.
Now, not many people know that, in Russia many are clueless aswell, but there was mostly non-violent ethnic cleansing of russians in Central Asia. At the moment of USSR fall russians constituted around 45% of Kazakhstan population. Now, the number is 19%. While Kazakh population almost doubled, russian population lost around 50% in numbers. A lot of russians moved, because russians, ukrainians and belarusians are disciminated in the workforce.
I watched Top 10 Saves of the Week, and the commentator praised Khudobin for a "Kazakh-ian scorpion save", so I thought he was Kazakh. My bad.