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  • }}</ref> Vinokourov won stage 3 of the [[Tour of the Basque Country]] with a {{convert|4|km|abbr=on}} long solo attack.<ref>{{cite web }}</ref> Kreuziger, like the rest of the field, was greatly outclassed by [[Alberto Contador]] on [[Mount Etna]] in stage 9, but despite finishing 50
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  • ...nce. Local officials attempt on occasion to limit the practice of religion by some nontraditional groups; however, higher-level officials or courts occas ...the country's constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and with the country's tradition of religious tolerance. U.S. government officials visited relig
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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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  • {{Infobox song contest country | Member station = [[Adam Media Group]]
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  • |subdivision_type = Country ...97, the government relocated the capital to [[Astana]] in the north of the country.
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  • ...as a Deputy Governor from 1994 to 1996 at Kazakhstan's National Bank, the country's central bank. After that he worked as a Head of the National Commission o ...S) association of former Soviet republics. He first heard of his candidacy by text message on the day it was agreed at a meeting of the Commonwealth of I
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  • ...ted with immediate and vocal opposition from many elements of Kazakhstan's media and political establishment. ...ernational routes to [[Dubai]], [[Istanbul]], Moscow and Beijing, followed by [[Frankfurt]] and London.
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  • ...only in the form of buildings and equipment . The situation was aggravated by a severe financial condition of the postal industry - RGPPS payable for the ...ernment of the authorized capital of the company. Kazakhstan was the first country in the CIS developed postal savings system . Results of Operations KazPost
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  • | native_name = <!-- Company's name in home country language --> | genre = <!-- Only used with media and publishing companies -->
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  • | country = [[Kazakhstan]] A stake in the field was acquired by the Chinese government in September 2013 after [[Xi Jinping]] struck a deal
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  • | country = [[Kazakhstan]] Lukoil started to drill the Khvalynskaya-1 exploratory well in July 1999 by using ''Astra'' [[semi-submersible]] jack-up rig. The {{convert|4200|m|adj=
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  • | country = [[Kazakhstan]] Tengiz is operated by [[Tengizchevroil]], a 40-year partnership planning to produce billions of b
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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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  • ...de man|vetted]] (literally "crowned", with respective rituals and tattoos) by consensus of several ''Vors''. Vor culture is inseparable from [[prison gan Although [[Armenia]], [[Chechnya]], [[Estonia]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]] and [[Uzbekistan]] have
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  • ...n. It was here that he was initiated as a 'vor v zakone', or thief-in-law. By the 1980s he was one of the most prominent thieves-in-law of [[Moscow]].<re ...w as a younger upstart.<ref name=medvedev/> In July 2009, Ivankov was shot by an assassin with a sniper rifle while leaving a restaurant, and died of his
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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 ...esponse, Ioseliani accused Gamsakhurdia of trying to take control of state media and silence rivals.
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  • ...n Georgian history in that it was initially shared and discussed on social media, before the story began to appear on Georgia's largely pro-government telev ...isi]], [[Batumi]], [[Poti]], [[Kutaisi]] and [[Gori, Georgia|Gori]]. Upset by images of graphic prisoner abuse, protestors demanded justice and promised
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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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  • Youth Information Service was organized by young citizens of Kazakhstan students of higher educational institutes in J ...te mechanisms for the internal investments to the [[social sector]] of the country, when any citizen is able to contribute his or her expertise, energy and in
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  • ...representatives of government, the Assembly of Peoples of Kazakhstan, mass-media, and young guests from foreign countries.<ref name=syezd1>{{cite web|publis
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  • | country = [[Kazakhstan]] ...cation was conducted in the form of short-term courses which were listened by the top and medium-level managers, people with higher education.<ref name=
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  • |country = [[Kazakhstan]] ...n '''international accreditation for its Oil and Gas programs''' in the UK by the Institution of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology '''(IMarEST),
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  • ...were moved to Central Asian areas like Besh Baliq, Almaliq, and Samarqand by the Mongols where they worked as artisans and farmers.<ref name="Biran2005" ...late in Ürümqi in 1997, it did not even issue visas to local people, but by 2004 it was possible for Chinese people to obtain business visas with an in
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  • ...s|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706163803/http://belstat.gov.by/homep/en/census/2009/main.php|archivedate=6 July 2011}}</ref> ...sis/e/bevoe/bevoetab10.htm|title=Foreign population on 31 December 2004 by country of origin|date=24 January 2006|accessdate=5 August 2007|work=Federal Statis
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  • ...rities|url=http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=7861|publisher=Kurdish Media|accessdate=2 December 2012}}</ref> ...]<ref name="historicaldictionary"/><ref>{{cite book|title=People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan|url=http://books.google.dk/books?id=W78I4hK0JLQC&p
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  • {{About|the East Slavic ethnic group, regardless of country of citizenship|all citizens of Russia, regardless of ethnicity|Citizenship ...y|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111042053/http://belstat.gov.by/homep/en/census/2009/main.php |archivedate=11 January 2010}}</ref>{{Failed
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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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  • ...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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  • |title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through By the summer of 2009 Arkin's mental health had deteriorated so profoundly he
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  • ...]] to [[Interpol]], but this has not been acted on by Germany or any other country in the [[West]] where he has since travelled.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ww ...e reports in Taiwan's media in July 2009 that Isa had secretly entered the country in the lead-up to the [[World Games]] which were hosted in the southern cit
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  • | country = {{URS}} ...new ''[[Code of Points (artistic gymnastics)|Code of Points]]'', developed by the [[Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique|FIG]] in 2004–2005 and i
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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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  • ...remark made by [[Kim Jong-il]] on his 2001 visit to Russia, [[North Korean media]] has referred to Cho as the "[[Pushkin]] of Korea".<ref>{{cite journal|jou ...]] 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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  • ...[[intergovernmental organization]] which was founded in 1985 in [[Tehran]] by the leaders of [[Iran]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Turkey]]. It provides a platfor ...reached between ECO members, the common trade market should be established by 2015.<ref name="tehrantimes.com"/>
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  • |country = Kazakhstan ...}$128 billion (nominal, 2016)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://data.worldbank.org/country/kazakhstan#up|title=The World Bank}}</ref>
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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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  • ...lenskiy and Novinskiy Passage. In 2012. Gutseriev began to invest into the media business, and has acquired seven radio stations thus far. ...ash;in the late 1980s he founded one of the first cooperative banks in the country.
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  • |subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]] ...к}}). The former name is still commonly used in the Russian language, and by [[Russians in Kazakhstan]].<ref>https://lenta.ru/articles/2016/06/06/aktobe
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  • |subdivision_type = Country ...ge=Russian|accessdate=17 December 2011}}</ref> It is completely surrounded by the territory of [[Karakiya District]], but administratively does not belon
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  • |subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]] ...ى}} {{IPA-kz|qɑɾɑˈʁɑndə||Kk-karagandy.ogg}}), more commonly known by its Russian name '''Karaganda''' ({{lang-ru|''Караганда''}}, until
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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]] [[ ...what they saw as a stranglehold on collective bargaining and labor rights by the government.”<ref name="rferl.org"/> In mid-December, some workers in
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  • ...Alibek mastered the art and science of formulating and evaluating nutrient media and cultivation conditions for the optimization of [[microbial]] growth. It ..., Alibek used his position at Biopreparat and the authority granted to him by the first part of the decree to begin destruction of the BW program. Specif
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  • ...ss]]</ref> describing them as ''[[Untermensch]]en'' ("sub-humans"). German media portrayed the German campaigns in the east as necessary to ensure the survi ...hern tip of the [[Greek peninsula]], and was then "brought into confusion" by the expanding borders of the [[Roman Empire]]. He stated that if Germany wo
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  • ...ng with [[Kosvinsky Mountain]] (600&nbsp;km to the north), it is suspected by the [[United States]] of being a large secret nuclear facility or bunker, o Large excavation projects have been observed by U.S. satellite imagery as recently as the late 1990s, during the time of [[
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  • ...08.<ref name="Bergner2008">{{cite book|last=Bergner|first=Jeffrey T.|title=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2008: Vols. I and II: Joint Committee
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  • ...mbers = 154 members<br>Senate: 47 (40 elected and 7 appointment by the president)<br>Mazhilis: 107 (98 seats from party lists & 9 from the [[A ...d92-876e08101e1c.html Kazakhstan: Presidential adviser spells out advances by women] RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty</ref>
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  • ...$600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes.<ref>Berk.</ref> ...ic thoroughfare, but a general route used by traders to travel, much of it by land, between the two continents along the [[Eurasian Steppe]]s through Cen
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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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  • ...ellariids are the main group of medium-sized "true petrels", characterised by united nostrils with medium septum and a long outer functional primary. Bustards are large terrestrial birds mainly associated with dry open country and steppes in the Old World. They are omnivorous and nest on the ground. T
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