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  • ...07-31}}</ref> Pal Kolsto of the [[University of Oslo]]'s Institute of East European and Oriental Studies goes as far as to call them "extremist". They are unus ...hstan]] were separatists and terrorists; it drew severe criticism from the Society for Uyghur Culture of Kazakhstan as well as the Kazakh government, and ''Ka
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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 ...attle for the Memory of Volokolamskoe Shosse]''. Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, [[University of California, Berkeley]] (August 1, 20
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  • ...estic and foreign policy of the state and represents Kazakhstan within the country and in international relations. The President is the symbol and guarantor o Legislative functions are performed by the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which consists of two Chamber
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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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  • {{Infobox country .../02/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=68&pr.y=12&sy=2014&ey=2021&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=916&s=NGDPD%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPPC&grp=0&a= |title=Kazakhst
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  • | country = {{Plainlist| ...ceived from a screenplay written by Bodrov and Arif Aliev. It was produced by Bodrov, Sergei Selyanov and Anton Melnik and stars [[Tadanobu Asano]], [[Su
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  • |club= [[Armed Forces (sports society)|Armed Forces sports society]], [[Alma-Ata]] {{Medal|Country | the {{URS}} }}
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  • ...ls for transportation, clothing, and food.<ref>"Kazakhstan," Food in Every Country, accessed April 18, 2011, ...The cooking techniques and major ingredients have been strongly influenced by the nation's [[Nomad|nomadic]] way of life. For example, most cooking techn
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  • |motto = '''Committed to Excellence; Education to Change Society (former)''' |country = [[Kazakhstan]]
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  • * Four By Two Films | country = {{Plain list|
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  • | associations = [[Lutheran World Federation|LWF]], [[Conference of European Churches|CCE]] ...comprises seven regional Lutheran denominations in [[Belarus]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], and [[
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  • ...ain symbolic value in Kazakh culture. Kazakh culture is largely influenced by the Turkic [[Nomad|nomadic]] lifestyle. ...the central [[hearth]] to escape; temperature and draft can be controlled by a flap that increases or decreases the size of the opening. A properly cons
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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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  • | 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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  • {{Infobox country demographics | country = Kazakhstan
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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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  • ...uent emigration to Russia and Ukraine, this number had declined to 796,000 by 1998 and 456,997 in the 2009 census.<ref name = "Coordinating">[http://www. ...ers of paramilitary Ukrainian peasant and [[Cossack]] bands, who were sent by the Russian government to Kazakhstan after their failed [[Koliyivschyna|upr
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  • ...zakhstan have either been assimilated into Kazakh society or have left the country.<ref>{{Harvnb|Akiner|1983|loc=381}}.</ref> ...of Meskhetian Turks were formed in Kazakhstan and they were not permitted by the Georgian government of [[Zviad Gamsakhurdia]] to return to their homela
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  • ...0; among those, as many as 100,000 did not survive the first winter in the country.<ref>{{harvnb|Iglicka|1998|pp=998–999}}</ref> ...igration procedures, allowing any ethnic Pole from abroad to settle in the country upon receiving an invitation from a company or association.<ref>{{harvnb|Gr
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  • ...since the breakup of the [[Soviet Union]], they remain prominent in Kazakh society today. Russians formed a plurality of the [[Kazakh SSR]]'s population for s ...Horde as a result of his decision. The Russians conquered the Middle Horde by 1798, but the Great Horde managed to remain independent until the 1820s, wh
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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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  • ...t China in the 1800s|Muslims in China that are sometimes still referred to by this name in Central Asian languages|Hui people}} ...ral/nationality/ |title=About number and composition population of Ukraine by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001 |work=Ukraine Census 2001
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  • ...e=March 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}: Distribution of population by nationality. Retrieved on 23 April 2009 </ref> ...oha.com/2015/04/uae-population-by-nationality |title=UAE´s population – by nationality |work=BQ Magazine |date=12 April 2015 |accessdate=12 July 2015
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  • The largest group by far that the Russians have called "Tatars" are the [[Volga Tatars]], native ...igins in either [[Latin]] or [[French language|French]], coming to Western European languages from [[Turkish language|Turkish]] and [[Persian language|Persian]
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  • ...pis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/tab5.xls Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424000000/htt ...United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |url=http://www.refworld.org/country,,,,AUT,,5139cf902,0.html |title=Continuing Human Rights Abuses Force Cheche
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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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  • ...State Statistics Committee of Ukraine: The distribution of the population by nationality and mother tongue]</ref> ...tem of government. In the 13th century, Kara-Khanid Khanate was destroyed by the Turkic [[Khwarazmian dynasty]], a vassal of the Qara Khitai.
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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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  • ...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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  • |subdivision_type = Country ...|s=于窴 |t=於窴 |p=Yútián |links=no}}) and was known to 19th-century European explorers as '''Ilchi'''.}} ({{ug|خوتەن, Хотән|Xoten|Hotǝn}}), a
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  • ''Uyghur'' is often pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|iː|g|ər}} by English speakers, though an acceptable English pronunciation closer to the ...tory because the sound shift ð/ḏ > y did not appear to have taken place by this time.{{sfn|Golden|1992|p=155}} The etymology therefore cannot be accur
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  • | country = {{URS}} {{MedalCompetition | [[European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]] }}
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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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  • |subdivision_type = Country ...–010015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://postalcodedb.com/AlphabeticSearch.aspx?country=Kazakhstan&city=Astana |title=Postal Code for Astana, Kazakhstan |accessdat
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  • | listing = [[List of countries by highest point|Country high point]]<br />[[Ultra prominent peak|Ultra]] Khan Tengri is the second-highest mountain in the Tian Shan, surpassed only by [[Jengish Chokusu]] (means "Victory peak", formerly known as [[Peak Pobeda]
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  • | ethnicity = [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] ...studies]], [[History of Russia|Russian history]] and [[History of Georgia (country)|Georgian history]]. He is an associate professor of history and social sci
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  • |country=Russia ...Sigismund von Herberstein]], in the 16th century Russians called the range by a variety of names derived from the Russian words for rock (stone) and belt
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  • ...rs Run Backward", Time U.S., Frederic Golden; By Frederic Golden, reported by: Erik Amfitheatr, Monday, June 14, 1982; web-edition: http://www.time.com/t ...ргей Яковлевич Жук]]}}). Some design plans were developed by Zhuk's institute, but without much publicity or actual construction work.<r
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  • ...<ref name="ball 2016 p156"/> The first book entitled ''The Silk Road'' was by Swedish geographer [[Sven Hedin]] in 1938.<ref name="ball 2016 p156"/> The ...], which at sea was conducted mostly through India and on land was handled by numerous intermediaries such as the [[Sogdia]]ns.<ref>[[Warwick Ball]] (201
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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 ...dex.php/bnhs/article/view/104934|journal=Journal of Bombay Natural History Society (JBNHS)|language=en|volume=112|issue=2|pages=92–93|doi=10.17087/jbnhs/201
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  • | image = ComputerHotline - Pelecanus crispus (by) (1).jpg ...oth weigh on average around {{convert|10|kg|lb|abbr=on}}, followed closely by great white pelicans and the [[whooper swan]]s (''Cygnus cygnus'').<ref nam
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  • It was collected from [[Bukhara|Bokhara]] in Eastern [[Turkestan]] in 1899, by a plant collector on behalf of the Van Tubergen nurseries in [[Haarlem]], t ...g/bin/view/Spec/SpecWillmottiana |publisher=wiki.irises.org (American Iris Society)| accessdate=29 September 2014}}</ref> who then first published and describ
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  • ...ses.org/bin/view/Spec/SpecSpuria |publisher=wiki.irises.org (American Iris Society)| accessdate=27 February 2015}}</ref><ref name=linnaeus>{{cite web |title=I ...rises) | accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref><ref name=british>British Iris Society (1997) {{Google books| pL6uPLo7l2gC |A Guide to Species Irises: Their Ident
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  • ...tral Asia''' refers to the section of [[Central Asia]] formerly controlled by the [[Soviet Union]], as well as the time period of Soviet administration ( ...city to the Young Bukharans. As Russian sources report, the emir responded by murdering the Bolshevik delegation, along with several hundred Russian inha
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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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  • {{Infobox Former Country |country = Turkistan
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  • ...f the [[Corvus (genus)|crow/raven]]}}) were an [[Proto-Indo-Europeans|Indo-European]] semi-[[Eurasian nomads|nomadic]] [[Eurasian Steppe|steppe]] people mentio ...veral centuries. Pressured by the [[Rouran]], the Wusun are last mentioned by the Chinese as having settled the [[Pamir Mountains]] in the 5th century AD
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  • {{Indo-European}} ...ref>Kuz'mina, Elena E. (2007). ''The Origin of the Indo Iranians''. Edited by J.P. Mallory. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp 381-382. ISBN 978-90-04-16054-5.</r
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  • {{Infobox Former Country ...inistration, until the late 3rd-century) spoken in the north and east, and by the [[seven Parthian clans]]){{sfn|Daryaee|2008|pp=99-100}}
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  • ...ians have only been able to piece together an incomplete picture of Khazar society and chronology of its history. ...fiction dealing with the Khazars, their dealings with other nations, their society and their religion.
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  • {{Infobox Former Country |country =
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  • ...the Lebanon, 1250-1900|last=Poliak|first=A. N.|publisher=The Royal Asiatic Society Prize Publication Fund|year=1939|isbn=|location=London|pages=Vol. XVII - 8s ...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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  • Members of the Senate are elected on the basis of indirect suffrage by secret ballot. Half of elected members of the Senate are up for election ev ...ensure representation for all the diverse national, cultural components of society.
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  • ...and nominates the [[head of government]]. [[Executive power]] is exercised by the government. [[Legislative power]] is vested in both the [[government]] ...d political transparency.<ref name="wef"/> Kazakhstan beats of a number of European countries in government efficiency, according to the list.<ref name="wef"/>
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  • | condition_effective = Ratification by at least 55 States to the Convention | condition_effective = ratification by 144 (3/4 of 192 Parties) required
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  • ...tration]] has tried to balance relations with Russia and the United States by sending petroleum and natural gas to its northern neighbor at artificially ...ional security, defense capacity, sovereignty and territorial unity of the country;
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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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