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  • ...kh Government]] to [[Russia]] until 2050, the spaceport is managed jointly by the [[Roscosmos State Corporation]] and the [[Russian Aerospace Forces]]. ...north–south, with the cosmodrome at the centre. It was originally built by the [[Soviet Union]] in the late 1950s as the base of operations for the [[
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  • ...country's leadership in Germany after the war. After a careful study made by the German specialists in missile development of A.I. Ostashev finally deci ...s from the [[leadership]] of [[Kazakhstan]] dust A. I. Ostasheva was moved by his wife and son in [[Baikonur]] (city) and buried in the grave of his olde
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  • ...States]] and the [[Soviet Union]] in the 1950s and 1960s. He is considered by many as the father of practical [[astronautics]].<ref>[http://energia-zem.r ...ok program|Vostok]] projects including the first human Earth orbit mission by [[Yuri Gagarin|Yuri Alexeevich Gagarin]] on 12 April 1961. Korolev's unexpe
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  • ...and the development of [[Space industry of Russia|space industry]] in the country. * "Unknown Baikonur" - edited by B. I. Posysaeva, M.: "globe", 2001. ISBN 5-8155-0051-8
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  • ...n 1979. At the same time, he also completed a coaching program for [[cross-country skiing]]. ...New York Times - As Climbers Die, The Allure of Everest Keeps on Growing - By Tim Egan - Published: March 11, 1998]</ref> He managed to survive and was
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  • ...he newly formed [[8th Guards Rifle Division|316th Rifle Division]], headed by the military commissar of the [[Kyrgyz SSR]], Major General [[Ivan Panfilov ...due to his Kazakh patriotism, which was regarded as dangerous nationalism by the unit's commissars. Momyshuly joined the [[Communist Party of the Soviet
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  • ...w.iranicaonline.org|access-date=29 December 2013}}</ref><br>{{flag|Iraq}} (by [[Kurds]] and [[Iraqi Turkmens|Turkmens]])<ref name=IMFA>{{cite web|title=2 ...ch, 2008. "The traditional Nowrouz/Nowrooz celebrations, mainly celebrated by the Kurdish population in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, and other parts of
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  • ...d that he was the "creator" of Jambyl, when in 1934, he was given the task by the [[CPSU|Party]] to find an ''akyn''. Aldan-Semenov found Jambyl on the r ...я 2007]</ref> worked under Jambyl's name. In 1941-1943, they were joined by the Russian poet [[Mark Tarlovsky]].<ref>Витковский Е., Резв
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  • ...nd other countries. One of her passions was singing in the language of the country she was performing in, and so performed traditional folk songs in Russian, *People's Artist of U.S.S.R. (1967)<ref>Gender Politics in Central Asia, by Christa Hammerle</ref>
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  • ...hstan]] (which was renamed after Kasteev), and in the other museums of the country. [[Category:1973 deaths]]
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  • ...ympics]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]. There he was defeated in the first round by France's [[Rachid Bouaita]]. [[Category:2009 deaths]]
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  • | country = ...9–7) and Hungary (9–7) in the final pool, but won the [[bronze medal]] by beating France in the third-place match. Rylsky was eliminated in the secon
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  • ...hstan]]i professional [[ice hockey]] player. He was drafted 124th overall by the [[Nashville Predators]] in the [[1999 NHL Entry Draft]]. He played one ...died on July 3, 2002 after suffering a [[brain hemorrhage]] during a cross-country preseason workout in [[Samara, Russia|Samara]].<ref>http://sportsillustrate
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  • ...C Irtysh Pavlodar|Irtysh]] and [[FC Kyzylzhar|Esil Bogatyr]] in his native country, for [[Arsenal Tula]] and [[Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod]] in [[Russia]], and ...18 caps, being the second top scorer of the national team, only surpassed by [[Ruslan Baltiev]].
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  • ...from [[Kazakhstan]]. Their position in society has been and is influenced by a variety of factors, including local traditions and customs, decades of So ...erienced, particularly in the 1990s, a strong decline and destabilization: by 1995 real GDP dropped to 61,4% of its 1990 level, resulting also in a [[bra
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  • ...ww.dushenko.ru/news_archive/21/ A story of the main Chernomyrdin's proverb by Konstantin Dushenko, an aphorism collector (in Russian)]{{dead link|date=No ...ies at the Department of Economics of the Union-wide Polytechnic Institute by correspondence.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}}
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  • ...ristocratic family. During this period the status of family was evaluating by the number of cattle, and Mustafa’s family was pretty rich in their villa ...that he had perfect memory and he knew all, of the [[sura]] from the Koran by heart.
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  • ...the position on the ranking, the bigger is the impact of terrorism in the country. Kazakhstan's 94th place puts it in a group of countries with the lowest im ...entral Asian Mujahedins members. Tashkent police found a mobile phone used by the terrorists at the site of one of the bombings. The police later found t
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  • ...ded by many well-known athletes. But several months later he was shot dead by a sniper while leaving a bathhouse.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/14 [[Category:Mobsters from Georgia (country)]]
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  • | birth_place = [[Tbilisi]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] ...glarize them. In 1974, in [[Butyrka prison]] he was "crowned" i.e. awarded by criminal brotherhood the title of [[Thief in law|vor v zakone]] ([[thief in
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  • ...'') '''Ioseliani''' (July 10, 1926 &ndash; March 4, 2003) was a [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] politician, writer, [[Georgian mafia|thief-in-law]] and leader ...ional separatist elements. In February 1991, his organisation was outlawed by President [[Zviad Gamsakhurdia]] and he was imprisoned along with other Mkh
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  • ...mafia-killed-112/ |title=King of Russian Mafia ‘Grandpa Hassan’ killed by sniper in Moscow|publisher=RT|accessdate=16 January 2013}}</ref> ...mobster and [[thief in law]], who began his career operating in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], continued in [[Moscow]], [[Ural (region)|Ural]], [[Siberia]], [
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  • {{Infobox country demographics | country = Kazakhstan
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  • [[Kazakhstan]] is multiethnic country where the indigenous ethnic group - the [[Kazakhs]], comprise the majority ...accepted Russian rule in exchange for protection against repeated attacks by the western Mongolian Kalmyks. In the 1890s, Russian peasants began to sett
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  • ...of the population. Today they live mostly in the northeastern part of the country between the cities of [[Astana]] and [[Oskemen]], the majority being urban Those measures had been enacted by [[Joseph Stalin]], even though the Volga German community as a whole was in
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  • ...pis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/tab5.xls Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity] {{ru icon}}</ref> ...eral/nationality/|title=About number and composition population of Ukraine by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001|work=Ukraine Census 2001|p
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  • He was shot dead in a counter-terrorism operation on October 2, 2003 by the [[Pakistani Army]].<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.u ...nistan— as they were prohibited and forbidden from doing so in their own country because of the Chinese occupation. We used to be able to live in our land,
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  • ...hur]] people of northwest China. The Muqam of Xinjiang has been designated by [[UNESCO]] as part of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Abdurashid Khan was featured by statue of the body and strength of hands. He had no equal in shooting with
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  • ...a picture of medieval Europe at the close of the Crusading period, painted by a keenly intelligent, broadminded and statesmanlike observer. His travels o ...agha, but the Ilkhanate ruler died before their arrival, and was succeeded by his son, [[Arghun Khan]].
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  • ...n]] of [[Moghulistan]] from 1462 until his death in 1487. He is identified by many historians with '''Ḥājjī `Ali''' ({{zh|哈只阿力}}, [[Pinyin]]: The following observation was made by a religious dignitary to [[Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat|Muhammad-Haydar Mi
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  • ...injiang]] (新疆, meaning "new frontier") when the region was reconquered by the Manchu-led [[Qing dynasty]] in 1759. Xinjiang is now a part of the [[Pe ...l map showing the separation of Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin (Taklamakan) by the Tien Shan Mountains]]
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  • ...being a collection of medieval notices of China. Issue 37 of Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ...and declared himself an independent ruler, successfully repelling attacks by the Moghulistan rulers [[Yunus Khan]] and his son Akhmad Khan, or [[Ahmad A
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  • | caption = Viktor Tsoi in 1986, photo by [[Igor Mukhin]] ...eceived little or no funding and were not given any exposure by the media. By this time Tsoi had begun to perform the songs he wrote at parties.
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  • ...Commander]] of the [[Korean People's Army]] (KPA), the [[List of countries by number of troops|fourth-largest standing army]] in the world. Kim's leaders ...s country in [[state terrorism]] and strengthened the role of the military by his ''[[Songun]]'', or "military-first", politics. Kim's rule also saw tent
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  • ...ent to communist values.{{sfn|Gabroussenko|2005|p=56}} After a remark made by [[Kim Jong-il]] on his 2001 visit to Russia, [[North Korean media]] has ref ...]] when the [[Red Army]] [[Soviet invasion of Manchuria|entered in 1945]]. By that time, he had substantial experience with [[Soviet literature]] and lit
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  • ...iet Airlines]]. Up to fifteen million [[hectares]] of farmland were served by agricultural special airplanes. Seventeen airports were built during this t ...ring his retirement. He had become an eyewitness to the destruction of the country and the severance of ties with other countries. During those years of crisi
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  • ...The massacre was a stark illustration of the [[Human rights in Kazakhstan|country's poor human rights record]] under [[President of Kazakhstan|President]] [[ ...me="nytimes">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/world/asia/deaths-in-rare-violence-in-kazakhstan.html?scp=3&sq=kazakhstan&st=cse|agency=The N
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  • |country = Soviet Union ...ed when he was very young, leaving him and two other siblings to be raised by their brother. The orphaned, impoverished family moved to [[Kazan]], [[Tat
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  • ...''[[August Eighth]]'' Vetchinov became a prototype of captain Ilya played by [[Khasan Baroyev]]. ...08-08-15|language=Russian|accessdate=16 August 2008}}</ref> He is survived by his wife and little daughter.
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  • ...adopted in [[Ust-Kamenogorsk]], [[Russian Turkestan]] (now [[Kazakhstan]]) by the family of his mother's brother, the [[Russians|Russian]] [[Cossacks|Cos ...in the Jungar Oirot (Kalmyk) state, Altai Oirots were called Altai Kalmyks by Russians. They were not Muslims or Kazakhs.) But [[Boris Shaposhnikov]], wh
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  • ...the country.) Aralsk-7 had a history of association with [[fish kill|mass deaths of fish]], various regional plague outbreaks, a [[saiga antelope]] die-off, ...lma-Ata]]-[[Moscow]] train in Aralsk. As a result, the epidemic around the country was prevented. I called [future [[General Secretary of the Communist Party
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  • ...20px|link=Hero of Socialist Labour]]<br>([[Awards and decorations received by Leonid Brezhnev|Full list of awards and decorations]]) ...n of the Soviet military during this time. His tenure as leader was marked by the beginning of [[Era of Stagnation|an era of economic and social stagnati
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  • .../16108941 }}</ref> The [[genus]] ''[[Haliaeetus]]'' was introduced in 1809 by the French naturalist [[Marie Jules César Savigny]] in the ''[[Description ...s, the latter likely around the same size as the record-sized deer carried by bald eagles in North America.<ref name=RaptorsWorld/>
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  • ...= 688}}</ref> This species was first [[scientific description|described]] by Swedish zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[12th edition of Systema Natura ...s showed that the saiga is [[sister taxon|sister]] to the [[clade]] formed by the [[springbok]] (''Antidorcas marsupialis'') and the [[gerenuk]] (''Litoc
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  • ...American wolves have been recorded to respond to European-style howls made by biologists.<ref name="zimen1981">Zimen, E. (1981), ''The Wolf: His Place in ...s a Carnivore", in ''Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation'', edited by L. David Mech and Luigi Boitani, pp. 104-130, Chicago: University Press</re
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  • ==Deaths== [[Category:2016 by country|Kazakhstan]]
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  • ...ulti-vector policy governed by the economic and political interests of our country," but Prime Minister Masimov is expected to take Kazakhstan's foreign polic The lingering scandals over the suspicious deaths and trials of opposition leaders [[Altynbek Sarsenbayev]] and [[Zamanbek Nu
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  • ...ers and Sons, Translated from the Russian, with the approval of the author by Eugene Schuyler, Ph.D. |volume= |edition= |publisher= Leypoldt & Holt |p ...Governor of Pennsylvania who knew nothing of Russia. Curtin was impressed by Schuyler and appointed him as the secretary of the American legation in [[S
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  • ...es islamiques|volume=8|pages=|via=}}</ref> and by 1938 three more articles by him were published there. In 1937 he also became a member of [[The Royal As ...f the Khazars' Kingdom and is important to the history of the Jews and the country".<ref name=":1">Program for the ceremony of the Bialik Award - Bialik House
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  • |country = the Soviet Union ...the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]]), a revolutionary group led by [[Vladimir Lenin]] which seized power in the aftermath of the [[October Rev
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