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• Siberian Tatars
  ...es 231">Alexandre Bennigsen [and] S. Enders Wimbush, The Siberian Tatars", in ''Muslims of the Soviet Empire : A Guide'' / pp. 231-232, Bloomington : Ind ...Siberian Tatars. At least 400,000 are ethnic [[Volga Tatars]], who settled in Siberia during periods of colonization.<ref name="Siberian Tatars">[http://
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• Volga Tatars
  ...{{cite web|url=http://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/15284/TU|title=Tatar in Turkey|author=Joshua Project|publisher=|accessdate=10 May 2015}}</ref> ...mselves-in-putins-russia/ |title=Kazan Tatars See No Future for Themselves in Putin’s Russia |publisher=The Interpreter |date=24 March 2014}}</ref>
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• Hasan Mahsum
  | 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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• Rabban Bar Sauma
  |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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• History of Xinjiang
  [[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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• Yahballaha III
  ...]-controlled [[China]] to [[Jerusalem]], led him to the Patriarch position in Baghdad, and brought him to recommend his former teacher and traveling comp ...thumb|A young man, possibly Uyghur or Chinese, from a [[Nestorian Church]] in [[Gaochang]], China, [[Tang dynasty|Tang period]], 602-654 AD]]
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• Old Uyghur language
  ...h was spoken in the [[Kingdom of Qocho]] from the 9th–14th centuries and in [[Gansu]]. ...cho]] and adopted Manichaeism and Buddhism as their religions, while those in Gansu first founded the [[Gansu Uyghur Kingdom]] (Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom) a
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• Uyghurs
  |region5={{flag|Turkey}} ([[Minorities_in_Turkey#Uyghurs|Uyghurs in Turkey]]) ...k Shichor|author2=East-West Center|title=Ethno-diplomacy, the Uyghur hitch in Sino-Turkish relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IR4tAQAAIAAJ|y
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• Afaqi Khoja revolts
  |caption=Qing victory over the Afaqis in Kashgar ...illon|title=Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2MtBAAAQ
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• Kim Jong-il
  ...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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• Yury Zuev
  ...irate]] of Ashina-Ashide-[[Basmyl]]. It turned out that a main achievement in that publication became the etymology of the name of the Kagan tribe Ashin ...ancient and medieval periods, ethnical composition and movement of tribes in the Western Turkic [[Kaganate]], pre-[[Mongols|Mongolian]] period (10th–1
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• Economic Cooperation Organization
  ...its economic bureau is in [[Turkey]] and its scientific bureau is situated in [[Pakistan]]. ...ual and fully sovereign member states. This makes ECO similar to [[ASEAN]] in that it is an organisation that has its own offices and bureaucracy for imp
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• Economy of Kazakhstan
  ...usiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/kazakhstan |title=Ease of Doing Business in Kazakhstan |publisher=Doingbusiness.org |accessdate=2017-01-24 }}</ref> ...an financial crisis|August financial crisis]] in [[Russia]]. A bright spot in 1999 was the recovery of international [[petroleum]] prices, which, combine
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• Eurasian Economic Union
  ...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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• Waste management in Kazakhstan
  == Main waste management sectors in [[Kazakhstan]] == Almost one third of industrial waste in the country is accumulated in [[Karaganda Region|Karaganda region]] - more than 8.5 billion tons by the e
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• Geography of Kazakhstan
  '''[[Kazakhstan]]''' is located in [[Central Asia]] and [[Eastern Europe]] at {{Coord|48|68|type:country_region:KZ|display=in [[Image:Astana-steppe-7748.jpg|thumb|left|In the [[steppe]]s of Central Asia ([[Aqmola Province]])]]
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• Astana
  |pushpin_map_caption = The location of Astana in Kazakhstan |established_date = in 1830 as Akmoly{{sfn|Pospelov|1993|pp=24–25}}
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• Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
  == Career in Soviet Union == ...iplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in Moscow in a training course for senior diplomats.
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• Grigory Potanin
  ...pher and natural historian. He was a [[Victorian-era]] explorer of [[Inner Asia]], and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants. On home Potanin attended a [[Page Corps]] in [[Omsk]], a military school for children from wealthy families.<ref name =
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• Sayram (city)
  | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Kazakhstan ...Sayram Su River, which rises at the nearby 4000-meter mountain Sayram Su. In medieval times, the city and countryside were located on the banks of the [
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• Akhmed Zakayev
  ...rt in the battles for [[Grozny]] and other military operations, as well as in high-level negotiations with the [[Russia]]n side.<ref>[http://www.theliber ...f> In 2003, judge [[Timothy Workman]] of [[Bow Street Magistrates' Court]] in central London rejected the [[extradition]] request due to lack of evidence
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• Ural Mountains in Nazi planning
  The [[Ural Mountains]] played a prominent role in [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] planning. [[Adolf Hitler]] and the rest of the Nazi G {{Further|Boundaries between continents#Europe and Asia}}
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• Main Uralian Fault
  ...[[Ural Mountains]] for over 2,000&nbsp;km. It separates both Europe from Asia and the three, or four, western megazones of the Urals from the three easte ...et al. Mountain building processes during continent–continent collision in the Uralides. ''Earth-Science Reviews'', Volume 89, Issues 3-4, August 2008
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• Altai Mountains
  ...مَىْ) are a [[mountain range]] in [[Central Asia|Central]] and [[East Asia]], where [[Russia]], [[China]], [[Mongolia]], and [[Kazakhstan]] come toget ...nese name, derived from the Mongol name ({{zh|c=金山|l=Gold Mountain}}). In [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] languages ''altin'' means gold and ''dag'' mean
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• Altaic languages
  |region = [[North Asia|North]], [[Central Asia|Central]], and [[West Asia]], and [[Eastern Europe]] ...golian, and Tungusic are unrelated." Johanna Nichols, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (1992, Chicago), pg. 4.</ref><ref>"Careful examination indic
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• Dzungaria
  ..., a state led by the native [[Oirats]] in the 18th century which was based in the area. ...es to attract intraprovincial and interprovincial migration to its cities. In comparison to southern Xinjiang (''Nanjiang'', or the Tarim Basin), Dzungar
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• Khüiten Peak
  | map_caption = Location of Khüiten Peak in Mongolia<br />(on the border with China) ...|Хүйтэн оргил}}, ''lit.'' ''"cold peak"'') is the highest point in [[Mongolia]], on the west side of the country along the border with [[PRC|C
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• Irtysh River
  ...[Siberian Tatar language|Siber:]] Эйәртеш/Eyärtesh) is a [[river]] in [[Russia]], [[China]], and [[Kazakhstan]]. It is the chief tributary of the The river's source lies in the [[Altai Mountains|Mongolian Altai]] in [[Dzungaria]] (the northern part of [[Xinjiang]], China) close to the borde
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• Tavan Bogd
  | map_caption = Location in Mongolia | designation1_free2value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia|Asia]]
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• Lake Balkhash
  ...]] (closed) basin shared by Kazakhstan and [[China]], with a small portion in [[Kyrgyzstan]]. The basin drains into the lake via seven rivers, the primar ...)|Balkhash]] and has about 66,000 inhabitants. Major industrial activities in the area include mining, ore processing and fishing.
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• Macroolithus
  ...centric rings of paired eggs. There is evidence of blue-green pigmentation in its shell, which may have helped camouflage the nests. ...interpretations are merely based on artifacts of erosion and redeposition in the early [[Paleogene]].
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• Bolat Nurgaliyev
  ...]] diplomat and the current Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for protracted conflicts. ...ef> He was appointed as the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for protracted conflicts for the 2010 Kazakhstani Chairmanship of th
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• Kairat Kelimbetov
  ...ht|Kairat Kelimbetov at the [[World Economic Forum]] on Europe and Central Asia 2011]] ...at time a Minister Kelimbetov announced that Kazakhstan's GDP grew by 9.1% in the last year.<ref name=GDP>[http://www.rferl.org/reports/centralasia/2005/
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• Wildlife of Kazakhstan
  [[Image:Altynemel dune.jpg|thumb|[[Sand dune]]s in the valley of the [[Ili River]], [[Altyn-Emel National Park]].]] ...an |url=http://carnivoractionplans1.free.fr/wildcats.pdf |format=PDF |year=1996 |publisher=IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group |location= Gland, Switzerland |isb
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• Supreme Court of Kazakhstan
  ...mation.<ref>{{citation|publisher=[[Baker & McKenzie]]|title=Doing Business in Kazakhstan|chapter=The Judicial System and Dispute Resolution|pages=86&ndas ...g with the new presidential decree "On the courts and the status of courts in the Republic of Kazakhstan" altered the structure of the judiciary and decr
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• Vino–Astana Motors
  ...otors''' is a Kazakhstani [[UCI Continental]] [[cycling team]] established in 2014.<ref>http://www.procyclingstats.com/team/Vino_4ever_2015</ref><ref>htt ...quad rider|name=[[Yevgeniy Gidich]]|nat=KAZ|birthdate={{birth date and age|1996|5|19|df=yes}}}}
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• Eurasian Land Bridge
  ...]. As of November 2007, about 1% of the $600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes.<ref>Berk.</r ...ntil the early 1990s the railway served as the primary land bridge between Asia and Europe, until several factors caused the use of the railway for transco
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• Silk Road
  | 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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• Semipalatinsk Test Site
  ...he 18,000 km² expanse of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (indicated in red), attached to [[Kurchatov, Kazakhstan|Kurchatov]] (along the [[Irtysh r ...he [[Soviet Union]]'s [[nuclear weapons]]. It is located on the [[steppe]] in northeast [[Kazakhstan]] (then the [[Kazakh SSR]]), south of the valley of
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• Almaz Sharman
  ...a citizen of the United States, Sharman has more than 30 years experience in biomedical and clinical science, and healthcare management. ...1981, and Kulziya Askarova, medical doctor and radiologist. He was raised in the [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]].
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• White-tailed eagle
  | image_caption = In captivity ...usin of the [[bald eagle]] and occupies the same [[ecological niche]], but in [[Eurasia]].
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• Mute swan
  .... It is recognisable by its pronounced knob atop the beak, which is larger in males. ...–49 |isbn=3-490-12518-5}}</ref> Both ''cygnus'' and ''olor'' mean "swan" in [[Latin]]; ''cygnus'' is a variant form of ''cycnus'', a borrowing from [[G
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• Montagu's harrier
  <!--This article is in Commonwealth English--> ...was introduced by the French naturalist [[Bernard Germain de Lacépède]] in 1799.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Lacépède | first=Bernard Germain de | autho
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• Dalmatian pelican
  ...family. It breeds from southeastern [[Europe]] to [[India]] and [[China]] in swamps and shallow lakes. The nest is a crude heap of vegetation. ...ving bird, rivaling those of the [[great albatross]]es (''Diomedea'' ssp., in particular the two largest species, the [[wandering albatross]] and [[south
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• Temnothorax sentosus
  ...t"/> that is native to [[Kazakhstan]].<ref>Social Insects Specialist Group 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/4405/all ''Chalepoxenus spi [[Category:Hymenoptera of Asia]]
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• Stigmella johanssoni
  |binomial_authority = [[Puplesis]] & [[Diškus]], 1996 ...[[Nepticulidae]] family. It is only known from the [[Tian Shan Mountains]] in southern [[Kazakhstan]].
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• Russian tortoise
  |''Agrionemys horsfildii'' <small>Rogner, 1996</small> ''(ex errore)'' |''Testudo horsfieldi horsfieldi'' <small>Highfield, 1996</small>
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• Gloydius intermedius
  * ''Gloydius intermedius'' <br><small>&ndash; Kraus, Mink & Brown, 1996</small><ref name="McD99">[[:fr:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|McDiarmid RW]], [[Jona ...s]] [[Crotalinae|pitviper]] [[species]] [[Endemism|endemic]] to northern [[Asia]]. Three [[subspecies]] are currently recognized, including the [[Subspecie
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• Common vole
  ...crops (within secondary habitats) and here its reproduction is faster than in primary habitats. ...is'' is one of the main food sources of a considerable number of predators in [[Central Europe]]. [[Buzzard]], [[Common Kestrel|kestrel]], [[long-eared o
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• European water vole
  | status_ref = <ref name="red-list-northern">{{IUCN2006|assessor=Amori|year=1996|id=2149|title=Arvicola terrestris|downloaded=12 May 2006}}</ref> ...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
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