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  • | caption = Sergei Lukyanenko in 2011 ...rn 11 April 1968) is a [[science fiction]] and [[fantasy]] author, writing in [[Russian language|Russian]], and is one of the most popular contemporary [
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  • | 20.61% [[Russians in Kazakhstan|Russian]] |time_zone = [[Time in Kazakhstan|West{{\}}East]]
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  • {{Women in society sidebar}} ...nfluenced by a variety of factors, including local traditions and customs, decades of Soviet regime, rapid social and economic changes and instability after i
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  • ...[[Taliban]] regime. Traditionally, games could last for several days, but in its more regulated tournament version, it has a limited match time.{{citati [[Image:Afghan Game Buzkashi.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Game of buzkashi in [[Mazar-i-Sharif]], [[Afghanistan]]]]
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  • ...cularly in combination with [[hammer and sickle]]. It has been widely used in [[flag]]s, [[Nation state|state]] [[emblem]]s, [[monument]]s, [[Ornament (a ...ion|Communist Party]], along with, for example, the [[hammer and sickle]]. In Soviet heraldry, the red star symbolized the [[Red Army]] and the military
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  • [[Image:Mechet pavlodar.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Mosque in [[Pavlodar]], Kazakhstan; Kazakhs predominately follow [[Sunni Islam]]]] |caption=Religions in Kazakhstan (2009)<ref name="EthnicData">{{cite web|url=http://www.stat.kz/p
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  • ...14865004.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 | title=Vory v Zakone has hallowed place in Russian criminal lore. | work=[[International Herald Tribune]] | date=29 Ju ...organized group of top criminals arose, the ''vory v zakone'', or "thieves in law."<ref name="Schwirtz"/>
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  • ...ap;"><!--If you swap out an image, change the "x##px" entry for EACH image in the row so that the width of the row lines up with the others-->[[ File:ENa ...www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=70501 Assessment for Russians in Kazakhstan]</ref> [[East Kazakhstan]]<ref>[http://www.turkishweekly.net/new
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  • ...ans from the Volga region at a refugee camp in [[Schneidemühl]], Germany, in 1920]] ...cs, [[Moravian Church|Moravians]], and [[Russian Mennonite|Mennonites]]). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Volga Germans emigrated to [[Kansas
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  • ...on-primary ancestry reports. "Ukrainians" being of partial descent figured in numbers.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=2011 National Household Survey: Data ta ...o.php?conteudo=7|archivedate=2007-03-12 |title=People of Ukrainian descent in Brazil |publisher=Parana.pr.gov.br |date= |accessdate=2012-11-02}}</ref>
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  • ...s a related ethnic group also called ''Gagavuz'' (or ''[[Gajal]]'') living in the European part of northwestern [[Turkey]]. ...ic group)|Macedonians]], [[Serbs]] and other Balkan populations, resulting in a high genetic distance from the [[Turkish people]] and other [[Turkic peop
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  • ...cessdate=2014-02-04}}</ref> to 2 million<ref>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27599836</ref> ...902,0.html |title=Continuing Human Rights Abuses Force Chechens to Flee to Europe |publisher=Refworld |date= |accessdate=2014-02-04}}</ref><br>25,000<ref nam
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  • |honorific-prefix = [[Rebbe|Rabban]]<br/><small>(Master in [[Aramaic]])</small> ...4|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-28529-3|pages=670–}}</ref> and Bordeaux in the West, meeting with the major rulers of the period.]]
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  • [[File:China-Xinjiang.png|thumb|200px|Xinjiang's location in the [[People's Republic of China]]]] ...ntier") when the region was reconquered by the Manchu-led [[Qing dynasty]] in 1759. Xinjiang is now a part of the [[People's Republic of China]], having
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  • ...n/|accessdate=5 August 2015|publisher=Russia Today}}</ref> It participated in the EAEU from the day of its establishment as an acceding state.<ref name=F ...Minister Vladimir Putin "A new integration project for Eurasia: The future in the making"|url=http://www.russianmission.eu/en/news/article-prime-minister
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  • |image_map = Karagandy in Kazakhstan.svg |blank1_name_sec1 = [[List of cities in Kazakhstan|Cities]]
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  • ...к», from Маяк 'lighthouse') is one of the biggest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing plutonium production reactors and a reproce ...hernobyl]] in Ukraine and [[Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster|Fukushima]] in Japan.<ref name=":0" />
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  • | designation1_free1value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia|Asia-Pacific]] |piccap="Silk Road" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
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  • | image_caption = In captivity ...usin of the [[bald eagle]] and occupies the same [[ecological niche]], but in [[Eurasia]].
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  • ...nderer to western Europe, and in August 2004 a red-footed falcon was found in [[North America]] for the first time on the island of [[Martha's Vineyard]] ...–|34|cm|in|abbr=on}} in length with a wingspan of {{convert|65|–|75|cm|in|abbr=on}}. The average mass is {{convert|155|g|oz|abbr=on}}.<ref name=Wasse
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  • ...in the [[Caspian Sea|Caspian]] and [[Black Sea]] basins, and occasionally in the [[Adriatic Sea]]. Heavily fished for the female's valuable [[roe]]—kn Like most sturgeons, the beluga is [[anadromous]], migrating upstream in rivers to [[spawn (biology)|spawn]].
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  • ...ld, on average, water voles only live about five months. Maximum longevity in captivity is two and a half years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mammal.org ...he Ecology of Eurasian Water Vole, Arvicola amphibius (Rodentia: Mammalia) in Ankara Province.'' Pakistan Journal of Zoology 45.6 (2013): 1599-1605.</ref
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  • | image_caption = Mountain hare in its summer pelage ...epending on biographic region and season.<ref>Rehnus, M.: ''Der Schneehase in den Alpen. Ein Überlebenskünstler mit ungewisser Zukunft'', Haupt Verlag,
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  • The Healthcare system in [[Kazakhstan]] is a post-Soviet healthcare system under reform. Life expectancy at birth in Kazakhstan is 148th in the world, below most developed nations and some developing nations. It is
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  • ...right|300px|alt=World map, with Kazakhstan in green|Location of Kazakhstan in [[Central Asia]]]] ...stan. Modern ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' appeared from 40,000 to 12,000 years ago in southern, central, and eastern Kazakhstan. After the end of the [[last glac
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  • ...es such as the [[Khazar Correspondence]], according to which at some point in the 8th–9th centuries, the ruling elite of the Khazars was said by [[Juda ...ate it.<ref name=rubin /> Despite skepticism, he reformulated the concept in 2016 by developing a novel method of genetic analysis that uses the fringe
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  • ...72|pp=25–71|}}. This figure has been calculated on the basis of the data in both Herlihy and Russell's work.</ref> ...h|2007|p=25}}.</ref> Astride a major artery of commerce between [[northern Europe]] and [[southwestern Asia]], Khazaria became one of the foremost trading em
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  • ...tle=KNB Gives Kazakh Uranium Company Head New Lawyer|periodical=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}</ref> ...tee of the Republic of Kazakhstan''' ('''NSC''') is an intelligence agency in [[Kazakhstan]].<ref name="CACI"/> It was founded on 13 July 1992.<ref>{{cit
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  • ...transl|ru|''Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza''}}), abbreviated in English as '''CPSU''',{{efn|Sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist P ...rty]]), a revolutionary group led by [[Vladimir Lenin]] which seized power in the aftermath of the [[October Revolution]] of 1917. The party was dissolve
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