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  • {{about|the town in Kazakhstan|the general region|Turkestan}} |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Kazakhstan
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  • ...reign policy of the state and represents Kazakhstan within the country and in international relations. The President is the symbol and guarantor of the u Legislative functions are performed by the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which consists of two Chamber
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  • |type = National, ethnic, international ...publisher= komunitetibektashi.org | url=http://www.komunitetibektashi.org/in.php?fq=brenda&gj=gj1&kid=1
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  • ...rkmenistan]], [[Uzbekistan]] and [[People's Republic of China|China]]. The country also borders on a significant part of the [[Caspian Sea]]. ...ulation|62nd largest]] population in the world, with a [[List of countries by population density|population density]] of less than 6 people per squa
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  • {{Infobox country | 20.61% [[Russians in Kazakhstan|Russian]]
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  • [[File:Almaty - Kazakhstan.jpg|thumb|Preparation of a meal in Kazakhstan]] ...ls for transportation, clothing, and food.<ref>"Kazakhstan," Food in Every Country, accessed April 18, 2011,
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  • ...urnalists identified a "growing pattern" of intimidation of the media, and in 2012 several opposition media outlets were ordered to be shut down on charg ...y a government representative to buy a controlling stake in ''Respublika'' in November 2001.<ref name="nytimes.com">[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/13/w
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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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  • ...tempt on occasion to limit the practice of religion by some nontraditional groups; however, higher-level officials or courts occasionally intervene to correc ...ion in addition to stronger efforts to collect such fines. Most registered groups experienced no problems, but the [[International Society for Krishna Consci
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  • [[File:Kazakhstan atheists 2009.png|300px|thumb|Share of nonbelievers by rayons and cities 2009]] ! Religious affiliation of the responders !! Absolute numbers <br /> (in thousands)!! Share<br />of the population<br />%
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  • ...n Central Asia''' dates back centuries, where [[Jews]] <nowiki/>have lived in countries including [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Mongolia]], [[Uzbekis ...s then part of the [[Soviet Union]], and a small number still live in that country.
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  • ...2009-09-07.</ref> Islam first arrived on the southern edges of the region in the 8th century from Arabs. [[File:2-minaret mosque in Semey.jpg|thumb|250px| Mosque in Semey]]
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  • ...stan.jpg|thumb|[[Kazakh cuisine|Kazakh food]] preparation began to develop in the 13th century]] ...ak.jpg|thumb|This 19th-century '''Star Kazak''' carpet sold for US$188,000 in 1999]]
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  • ...lls of the [[Kok Tobe]]; [[Abay Opera House]]; [[Golden Warrior Monument]] in the [[Republic Square, Almaty|Republic Square]]; Entrance gate to the Park |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Kazakhstan
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  • ...94-bcfb2772a5e9.html Five Years After 9/11: Crackdowns loom behind Central Asia's War On Terror] RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty</ref><ref name=RUSSIALIKE>[ht ...is the impact of terrorism in the country. Kazakhstan's 94th place puts it in a group of countries with the lowest impact of terrorism.<ref>{{cite web|ti
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  • ...ntion."<ref>[[Human Rights Watch]], [https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/kazakhstan World Report 2015: Kazakhstan], accessed October 2015.< ...stan, and the country has never held an election judged to be free or fair by the West.}}</ref>
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  • {{Infobox country demographics | country = Kazakhstan
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  • [[File:Kazakhstan European 2016 Rus.png|thumb|European people in Kazakhstan, 2016.]] ...hs]] (66.48%) and ethnic [[Russians]] (20.61%) with a wide array of other groups represented, including [[Ukrainians]], [[Uzbeks]], [[German people|Germans]
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  • .../www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=70502 Assessment for Germans in Kazakhstan], The MAR Project</ref> Numbering nearly a million at the time o ...] during [[World War II]]. Large portions of the community were imprisoned in the [[Gulag|Soviet labor camp system]].
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  • ...ussia and Ukraine, this number had declined to 796,000 by 1998 and 456,997 in the 2009 census.<ref name = "Coordinating">[http://www.uvkr.com.ua/ua/struc ...ssian government to Kazakhstan after their failed [[Koliyivschyna|uprising in 1768]].<ref name = "Coordinating"/>
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group |group=Chinese people in Kazakhstan
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  • {{Infobox Ethnic group | group = Turks in Kazakhstan
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  • {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Poles in Kazakhstan
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group ...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
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group ...ine]]. These communities can be traced back to the Koreans who were living in the [[Russian Far East]] during the late 19th century.
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  • ...e 1800s|Muslims in China that are sometimes still referred to by this name in Central Asian languages|Hui people}} {{Infobox ethnic group
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  • '''Armenians in Central Asian states''': [[Uzbekistan]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[ ...vileges.<ref>{{cite web|last=Zenian|first=David|title=Armenians in Central Asia|url=http://www.agbu.org/publications/article.asp?A_ID=52|accessdate=22 Apri
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group ...s a related ethnic group also called ''Gagavuz'' (or ''[[Gajal]]'') living in the European part of northwestern [[Turkey]].
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group ...e value was preserved at 0.104% level it would be no less than 1.4 million in 2008</ref>
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group ...Mongolian plateau]] in the 12th century CE. The name "Tatar" first appears in written form on the [[Kul Tigin]] monument as 𐱃𐱃𐰺 (''TaTaR''). His
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group |group = Kurds in Kazakhstan
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group ...ics/conflict/baylis_strategy3e/01student/cases/chechnya.pdf |title=The War in Chechnya |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2014-02-04}}</ref> to 2 million<ref
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group ...pis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/tab5.xls Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity] {{ru icon}}</ref>
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  • {{About|Uzbeks as an ethnic group|information about citizens of [[Uzbekistan]]|Demographics of Uzbekist {{Infobox ethnic group
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  • {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Uyghurs in Kazakhstan
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  • ...ibe (after M.S. Mukanov),<ref>Mukanov M.S., ''"Ethnic territory of Kazakhs in 18 - beginning of 20th century"'', Almaty, 1991, Муканов М. С. ''" There is evidence for the Argyns' mixed origins in three facts. Firstly, while modern Argyns speak [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]],
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  • ...://www.eurasianet.org/departments/culture/articles/eav042203.shtml |title= Ethnic Kazakhs Find Titular Homeland to be Economic Haven |last=Kueppers |first= A ...ers Alertnet|date=2003-09-03|accessdate=2010-06-08|title=Special report on ethnic Kazakhs and the struggle to return - Continued|url=http://www.irinnews.org/
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  • ...уз.svg|thumb|right|Approximate areas occupied by the three Kazakh hordes in the early 20th century; red represents the Senioren zhuz, orange represents ...an]], and represents the main [[Kazakh tribes|tribal]] division within the ethnic group of the [[Kazakhs]].
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  • {{About|the East Slavic ethnic group, regardless of country of citizenship|all citizens of Russia, regardless of ethnicity|Citizenship {{Infobox ethnic group
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  • | publisher=[[Radio Free Asia]] ...akistani Army]].<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3343241.stm|title=Chinese militant "shot dead"|publisher=BBC News|a
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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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  • ...seven years in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp]]s, in [[Cuba]] despite it became clear early on that he was innocent.<ref name=Do ...=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html |date=2009-08-01 }}, ''[[Asia Times]]'', November 4, 2004</ref>
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group |image=File:Family In Lanchow, China 1944 Fr. Mark Tennien Restored.jpg
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  • {{Infobox ethnic group |region5={{flag|Turkey}} ([[Minorities_in_Turkey#Uyghurs|Uyghurs in Turkey]])
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  • ...the [[List of countries by number of troops|fourth-largest standing army]] in the world. Kim's leadership is thought to have been even more authoritarian ...economic reforms, including the opening of the [[Kaesong Industrial Park]] in 2003.
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  • ...ttp://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/countries_by_area.htm|title=Countries by Area|accessdate=26 August 2014|website=Nations Online Project}}</ref> ...kz.html|title=The World Factbook|publisher=}}</ref><ref>http://belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/otrasli-statistiki/naselenie/demografiya_2/operativ
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  • {{About|the island group in the Caspian Sea|other similarly named islands|Tyuleny Island (disambiguatio | map_caption = Location of the Tyuleniy Archipelago in the Caspian Sea.
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  • ...ther four Central Asian states, or about twice the size of [[Alaska]]. The country borders [[Turkmenistan]], [[Uzbekistan]], and [[Kyrgyzstan]] to the south; [[Image:Astana-steppe-7748.jpg|thumb|left|In the [[steppe]]s of Central Asia ([[Aqmola Province]])]]
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