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  • | draft_team = [[New York Islanders]] ...t Moscow Oblast]] in the 2010 offseason. Injuries limited his productivity in his first season with the team.
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  • ...ith help from the [[World Bank]].<ref>[http://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2005/09/01/saving-a-corner-of-the-aral-sea Saving a Corner of the Aral Sea]</ref ...e Aral have been progressively redirected for irrigation, the water levels in the Aral have fallen, the shore receded, and the water quality has dropped
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  • ...translated as the ''Pyramid of Peace and Accord'', is a 77 m high building in [[Astana]], the capital of [[Kazakhstan]]. The structure was built ...tion at a cost of 8.74 billion Kazakh tenge (about $58 million) and opened in late 2006.
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  • ...deration]] was an [[engineer]], Soviet, Russian [[scientist]], participant in the launch of the first artificial [[Earth]] [[Sputnik 1|satellite]] and th Born on September 30, 1925 in the village of Maly Vasilyev. Mother – [http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/podshi
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  • | cause = [[Short circuit]] in the rocket ...ng-ru| Митрофан Иванович Неделин}}), who was killed in the explosion. As commanding officer of the Soviet Union's [[Strategic Miss
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  • ...=Sagdeyev, R. Z. |author2=Shtern, M. I. |title=The Conquest of Outer Space in the USSR 1974 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19770010175 |work=NASA |publi ...rin|Yuri Alexeevich Gagarin]] on 12 April 1961. Korolev's unexpected death in 1966 interrupted implementation of his plans for a Soviet manned Moon landi
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  • {{MedalGold|[[2004 World Fencing Championships|2004 New York]]|Team}} {{MedalSilver|[[2005 World Fencing Championships|2005 Leipzig]]|[[2005 World Fencing Championships#Women's events|Individual]]}}
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  • ...eera English]]: {{YouTube|id=3Fyv5oI1LYk|title=Kazakh media fights against new restrictions}}</ref> ...d that this had been an emergency fund used to rescue the national economy in 1998.<ref name=NYT/>
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  • ...g government corruption, her life was threatened and her paper firebombed. In 2002, she was awarded a [[CPJ International Press Freedom Award]]. ...[Pravda]]''. Petrushov was known for his exposés of government corruption in [[Kazakhstan]], including a story which ended the career of Kazakh [[Politb
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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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  • ...publisher= komunitetibektashi.org | url=http://www.komunitetibektashi.org/in.php?fq=brenda&gj=gj1&kid=1 ...arsi]]s)<ref name="www.iranicaonline.org">{{cite web|title=Nowruz observed in Indian subcontinent|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/nowruz-ii/|pu
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  • ...rgalieva|first=Meruert|title=Группа "Уркер" в США ('Urker' in the USA)|date=2007-04-27|accessdate=2007-07-06|journal=Muz'ikoved|volume=16 ...er, he studied in a [[College or university school of music|conservatory]] in his youth, but initially dreamed of becoming a [[conductor (music)|conducto
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  • | 20.61% [[Russians in Kazakhstan|Russian]] |time_zone = [[Time in Kazakhstan|West{{\}}East]]
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  • ...' refers to the [[film industry]] based in [[Kazakhstan]]. [[Film|Cinema]] in Kazakhstan can be traced back to the early 20th century. Today, Kazakhstan ...a-mater for the most notable Kazakh filmmakers of the 1960s, known as "the new wave".<ref>{{cite web|author=Peter Lennon|url=https://www.theguardian.com/f
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  • ...was in Volker Schlöndorff’s Ulzhan (2007) and in the Kazakh epic Nomad (2005). |accessdate=2009-03-10}}</ref>) and [[David Bennent]]. ...ading for the mountain [[Khan Tengri]]. Along the way they are joined by [[New Age]] [[shaman]] Shakuni. They all approach the storied mountain which Shak
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  • ...lnik and stars [[Tadanobu Asano]], [[Sun Honglei]] and [[Chuluuny Khulan]] in the main roles. ''Mongol'' explores abduction, kinship and the repercussion ...illion in sales through international release for a combined $26.5 million in gross revenue. The film was a minor financial success after its theatrical
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  • ...inter]], [[art critic]] and author of the сulture support Year [[emblem]] in [[Kazakhstan]] (2000), [[laureate]] of The presidential grant of The Republ ...t at childhood. At school ages Zhenis's favourite subject was a painting . In 1982 he graduated Zhalanash high school with distinction.
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  • | proyears2 = 2000–2005 ::4 individual stages ([[2003 Tour de France|2003]], [[2005 Tour de France|2005]], [[2010 Tour de France|2010]])
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  • ...[[1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships|1995 World Championships]], all in the [[light-heavyweight]] division. *'''1992''' Junior European Champion in Edinburgh, as a Middleweight.
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  • | caption = Golovkin in 2015 ...nnady-golovkin-new-no-1 "Pound-for-pound rankings: Gennady Golovkin is the new No. 1"]. [[ESPN]]. 23 March 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2017.</ref> third by '
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  • | caption = Nabokov with the [[San Jose Sharks]] in 2008 | played_for = '''NHL:'''<br>[[San Jose Sharks]]<br>[[New York Islanders]]<br>[[Tampa Bay Lightning]]<br>'''RSL/KHL:'''<br>[[Torpedo Ust-K
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  • | draft_team = [[New York Rangers]] | former_teams = [[New York Rangers]]<br />[[Phoenix Coyotes]]<br />[[Calgary Flames]]<br />[[Atlanta T
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  • |caption = Kazakh woman, 2005 {{Women in society sidebar}}
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  • [[File:Almaty - Kazakhstan.jpg|thumb|Preparation of a meal in Kazakhstan]] ...ese animals for transportation, clothing, and food.<ref>"Kazakhstan," Food in Every Country, accessed April 18, 2011,
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  • ...caviar comes from the critically endangered [[beluga sturgeon]] that swims in the Caspian Sea]] ...it." ( in Judith C. Sutton, ''Champagne & Caviar & Other Delicacies'', New York, Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998, p. 53.)</ref>
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  • :''This article is about the food. For the place in ancient Syria sometimes called Samosa, see [[Samosata]]'' ...nd emigration from these areas, samosas in today's world are also prepared in other regions.
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  • ...d home games at the [[Kazakhstan Sports Palace]] for 14 seasons, beginning in [[2000–01 Kazakhstan Hockey Championship|2001]]. The head coach is [[Edua ...the Vysshaya Liga, Barys joined the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League in [[2008–09 KHL season|2008]].
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  • ...s. He was a key figure in Russian politics in the 1990s, and a participant in the Russian transition from a [[Planned economy|planned]] to a [[Market eco ...main Chernomyrdin's proverb by Konstantin Dushenko, an aphorism collector (in Russian)]{{dead link|date=November 2010}}</ref>
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  • | image = [[File:Borat in Cologne.jpg|250px]] ...on Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev at the [[Germany|German]] premiere of ''Borat'' in 2006
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  • ...ameo]] by Borat, and the third, ''[[Brüno (film)|Brüno]]'', was released in 2009. The film is produced by Baron Cohen's production company, Four By Two ...Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]] in the same category.<ref name="Globe">[http://www.hfpa.org/nominations/index.
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  • | image_caption = The Astana [[Volvo]] team car in 2009. ...ged to attend every [[UCI ProTour]] event, and were invited to every event in the inaugural [[UCI World Ranking|UCI World Calendar]] as well.
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  • ...nd [[Al Montoya]]. Gratton was then assigned to the Rangers' AHL affiliate in Hartford. ...[Milwaukee Admirals]], Gratton returned to Philadelphia when he was traded in exchange for [[Tim Ramholt]] on October 30, 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http:
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  • ...as Hutchinson''' (born March 24, 1980 in [[Evanston, Illinois]] and raised in [[Rochester Hills, Michigan]]) is a retired [[United States|American]] prof ...the [[Stanley Cup]] in 2006 playing with the Carolina Hurricanes appearing in 36 regular season games.
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  • | draft_team = [[New York Islanders]] ..., and represented [[SaiPa]] in the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[SM-liiga]] in the 2005–06 season, where ''SaiPafanit'' (the SaiPa fan club) elected Kudroč Play
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  • | turnedpro = September 2005 ...s ranking of world number 25. On 23 February, she peaked at world number 3 in the doubles rankings.
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  • ...obert_wistrich/ Robert Wistrich], Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences website, accessed August 21, 2006.</ref> ...ion agreement between [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and the [[Polish government-in-exile]].
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  • ...ident of the United States|President]]'s airplane en route from [[Moscow]] in the 1997 action movie [[Air Force One (film)|''Air Force One'']]. ...w". The Kazakh government responded by placing a 4-page ad in ''[[The New York Times]]'', containing information about Kazakh life, education, government,
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  • | revenue = US$6.78&nbsp;billion (2005) | net_income = US$1.15 billion (2005)
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  • ...a, Kazakhstan's largest insurance company maintained its position as first in terms of assets, insurance reserves, equity and authorized capital, as well ...mbrace all type of covers under compulsory and voluntary insurance classes in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
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  • ...akhstan was acquired by [[China National Petroleum Corporation]] and then in 2006 transferred to [[PetroChina]]. ...major oil and gas finds in Southern Kazakhstan, in 1991 becoming a partner in a JV to develop the [[Kyzylkiya]], [[Aryskum]], [[Maibulak]] and [[South Ku
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  • ...an Sea close to [[Atyrau]] and is considered the world's largest discovery in the last 30&nbsp;years, combined with the [[Tengiz Field]].<ref name=johnst | title = Conoco sells stake in Kashagan field
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  • '''Tengiz field''' (Tengiz is Turkic for "sea") is an [[oil field]] located in northwestern [[Kazakhstan]]'s low-lying wetlands along the northeast shores ...Discovered in 1979, Tengiz [[oil field]] is one of the largest discoveries in recent history.<ref name="SP Times">
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  • ...e</ref> Kazakhstan has taken [[Uzbekistan]]'s place as the favored partner in [[Central Asia]] for both Russia and the United States.<ref name=FAVORITE>[ ...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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  • ...nalty = 10 years in American prison and 10 in [[Russia]]n [[Prisons in Russia|prison camp]] ...ligence and Counter-Intelligence, 19:2, 237 – 288.</ref> He has operated in both the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]]. His nickname, "Yaponch
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  • ...ონიანი}}; b. 1952) is a [[Georgian mafia]] boss and '[[thief in law]]'. He is reportedly a member of the "Kutaisi" criminal gang.<ref name= == Background and activity in Spain ==
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  • | death_place =[[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]] ...4 May 1985) was a [[thief in law]] (''Vor v zakone'') and boss of [[New York City]]'s [[Russian Mafia]] during the 1970s and 1980s. Known for his cruelt
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  • ...ov]], remained in detention after unfair trials ... Torture remains common in places of detention."<ref>[[Human Rights Watch]], [https://www.hrw.org/worl ...Guardian]]|date=11 March 2015|quote=Nazarbaev has clamped down on dissent in Kazakhstan, and the country has never held an election judged to be free or
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  • ...s a student of world history and [[German language]]; after his graduation in 1977, he found work as a teacher of German, which he continued until the mi ...in 1946-1966"; after graduation up until today, he has continued his work in the field of Koryo-saram studies.
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  • ...nie/demografiya_2/current-data/demographic-situation/demographic-situation-in-2015/|archivedate=3 February 2016}}</ref> ...(3), Generation Status (4), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan A
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  • ...ine]]. These communities can be traced back to the Koreans who were living in the [[Russian Far East]] during the late 19th century. ...oki.com/lpage/nation/200409/kt2004092218583111950.htm|archivedate=18 March 2005}}</ref>
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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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  • ...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 ...sg.harvard.edu/publication/12785/chechens_in_the_middle_east.html Chechens in the Middle East: Between Original and Host Cultures], Event Report, Caspian
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  • ...M in Kazakhstan, 1 M in Belarus, 0.6 M Latvia, 0.6 M in Uzbekistan, 0.6 M in Kyrgyzstan. Up to 10 million [[Russian diaspora]] elsewhere (mostly America ...w.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/population/demo/per-itog/tab5.xls Ethnic groups in Russia], 2010 census, Rosstat. Retrieved 15 February 2012 {{ru icon}}</ref>
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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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  • ...years he was wrongly imprisoned in the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2> November 12, 1979 in
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  • ...ears he spent in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2> American [[intelligence analysts]] estimate Abdurehim was born in 1974 in [[Ghulja, China|Ghulja]], China, and assigned him the [[Internment Serial N
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  • | title=Index for CSRT Records Publicly Files in Guantanamo Detainee Cases ...ntanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]]. He was captured in Afghanistan in November 2001.<ref name=DoDList2>
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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 ...Department of Defense]] reports that Tourson was born on January 26, 1971, in [[Xinjiang]] Province, China and assigned him the [[Internment Serial Numbe
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  • ...ears he spent in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2> ...]] [[counter-terrorism]] analysts reports Mahmud was born on July 1, 1964, in [[Ghulja, China|Ghulja]], China.
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  • | charge = No charge (held in [[extrajudicial detention]]) ...who was held in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2>
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  • | status = Refugee in Albania ...] in the [[United States]]-controlled [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2>
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  • ...nistration]]. Bekri is one of the highest ranked ethnic-minority officials in the Chinese government. ...tween 2008 and 2014. Born and raised in Xinjiang, he spent his entire life in the Region, aside from a short stint as the Deputy Mayor of [[Feicheng]], [
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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...the [[Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique|FIG]] in 2004–2005 and in effect since 2006. Her gymnastic appearances are remembered for "her strong ...in the secondary school for his small stature and retired from gymnastics in favor of boxing. Irina, whom Nellie Kim considered more talented than she h
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  • ...n [[Dalnegorsk]], [[Primorsky Krai]], [[Soviet Union]] – August 18, 2006 in [[Tashkent]], [[Uzbekistan]]) was an Uzbekistani painter of [[Gyopo|Korean ...ly, unable to care for his grandmother, he sent her to live with relatives in the [[Kazakh SSR]], where she too died.<ref name=SkyBlueHometown>{{cite web
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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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  • | spouse = Kim Hae-sŏn (late 1930s){{sfn|Gabroussenko|2005|p=65}} <!-- or: | spouses = --> | children = Yurii Cho (son){{sfn|Gabroussenko|2005|p=58}}
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  • ...n minister]] of the [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]]. He currently resides in the [[United States]], where he was granted [[political asylum]]. ...alin|Stalin]]'s government in 1944. The Akhmadovs returned to [[Chechnya]] in 1962.
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  • | death_place = [[Manhattan, New York]], U.S. ...Fashion Model Directory}}</ref> She established herself as a rising figure in the fashion industry by posing for magazines including [[Vogue (magazine)|'
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  • ...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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  • ...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 ...http://www.russianmission.eu/en/news/article-prime-minister-vladimir-putin-new-integration-project-eurasia-future-making-izvestia-3-|accessdate=13 August
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  • |image_flag = New flag of Astana.svg |image_shield = New coat of arms of Astana.svg
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  • ...e = History of Civilizations of Central Asia |volume=6 |publication-date = 2005 |location=Paris }}</ref> ...itation |publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica Co. |publication-place = New York |title = Encyclopædia Britannica |publication-date = 1910 |oclc = 14782424
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  • ...' ({{lang-ce| '''Iумарийн ЙоI Лиза'''}}) (born March 12, 1965 in [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]]) is a [[Chechen people|Chechen]] [[singer]] and ..., her father decided to move the family back to Chechnya, and they settled in [[Grozny]] that year.
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  • | caption = Kolesnikov at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea | high_school = [[Waverley College]]<br>([[Waverley, New South Wales]])
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  • == 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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  • ...Akhmat''', was the Chief [[Mufti]] of the [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]] in the 1990s during and after the [[First Chechen War]]. At the outbreak of th ...who led [[Kadyrovtsy|his father's militia]], became one of his successors in March 2007 as the [[President of the Chechen Republic]].
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  • ...= |date=October 24, 2006 |work= |publisher= Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus |accessdate=December 26, 2010}}</ref> Oisteanu is the author of more ...try of the [[Polytechnic University of Bucharest|Politechnical Institute]] in [[Bucharest]].
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  • | term_end= 8 March 2005 | death_date= {{death date and age|2005|3|8|1951|9|21|df=y}}
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  • {{about|the city in [[Kazakhstan]]|other uses|Aral (disambiguation)}} |pushpin_map_caption =Location in Kazakhstan
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  • ...1994 Asian Games|1994 Asian Games]]. His professional boxing career began in 1993. ...wever, he is also noted for a weak [[chin (boxing)|chin]] that was evident in his knockout losses to contenders [[Oliver McCall]], [[David Tua]], [[Kirk
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  • | 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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  • ...ies%2fKazakhstan Ex-Kazakh official who made a threat found slain] The New York Times</ref> [[Category:2005 deaths]]
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  • ...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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  • [[File:Alibek.jpg|thumb|320px|right|<center>'''Ken Alibek''' in 2003.]] ...[[microbiologist]] and [[biological warfare]] (BW) expert. He rose rapidly in the ranks of the [[Soviet Army]] to become the First Deputy Director of [[B
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  • ...he is the member and the vice-president of [[Ukrainian Academy of Arts]]. In 2001 Sydorenko has founded and has headed Modern Art Research Institute of ...e. At the age of 8 he took an interest in the painting, at the age of 10 - in the photography.
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  • ...e professor of history and social sciences at [[Louisiana State University in Shreveport]].<ref name="lsus"/>
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  • ...began his playing career in his homeland of [[Kazakhstan]] before leaving in 1998, with his coach Sergei Gersonsky, to play for [[Avangard Omsk]]’s fa ...adiens]] in the first round of the [[2001 NHL Entry Draft]], 25th overall. In the 2003-04 season, Perezhogin came to North America to play with the [[Ham
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  • ...golian, and Tungusic are unrelated." Johanna Nichols, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (1992, Chicago), pg. 4.</ref><ref>"Careful examination indic ...ref> The group is named after the [[Altai Mountains|Altai mountain range]] in [[Central Asia]].
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  • ..., 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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  • ...}</ref> Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley of the [[Ukok plateau]] in the [[Altai Mountains]], [[Siberia]], south of the modern city of [[Novosib Numerous comparable burials have been found in neighboring western Mongolia.
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  • ...people, often glossed as "Scythian," who lived in the [[Altay Mountains]] in [[Siberia]]n [[Russia]]. She is best known for her discovery and analysis o ...tacular archaeological find; a female [[Siberian Ice Maiden|mummy]] frozen in [[permafrost]] which she associated with the [[Pazyryk culture|Pazyryk]] on
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  • '''Ukok Plateau''' is a remote and pristine [[grasslands]] area located in the heart of southwestern [[Siberia]], the [[Altai Mountains]] region of [[ ...l with a flat top. According to the oral testimony of S. Umurzakova "Ukok" in Kyrgyz used to refer to flat-topped mountains, ie plateaus.
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  • ...]] (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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  • |caption=The Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and 2014 (right) ...|mi2|-1|abbr=on}} (2008)<br>South:<br>{{Convert|3500|km2|mi2|-1|abbr=on}} (2005)
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  • ...; Report Provides New Details of Soviet Smallpox Accident.”, ''[[The New York Times]]''; 15 June issue.</ref> ...ev and D. Yeleukenov (1999), ''Former Soviet Biological Weapons Facilities in Kazakhstan: Past, Present and Future''; Monterey, Calif: Monterey Institute
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  • ...тынбек Сәрсенбайұлы'''; 1962 - February 13, 2006) served in the [[Government of Kazakhstan]] before becoming a political opposition lea ...khstani ambassador to [[Russia]], Sarsenbayuly joined the opposition ranks in protest against what he regarded as the administration's authoritarian poli
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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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  • ...he 18,000 km<sup>2</sup> 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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  • |caption=Brezhnev in [[East Berlin]] in 1967 ...beginning of [[Era of Stagnation|an era of economic and social stagnation in the Soviet Union]].
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  • .... 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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  • ...ic name]], ''horsfieldii'', and the common name "Horsfield's tortoise" are in honor of the [[Americans|American]] [[Natural history|naturalist]] [[Thomas ...sis generally concurs, but not too robustly so.<ref>e.g. Fritz ''et al.'' (2005)</ref> Some sources also list three separate [[subspecies]] of Russian tort
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  • ..., these [[marine mammal]]s populate the Northern Caspian. As the ice melts in the warmer season, they can be found on the mouths of the [[Volga River|Vol ...th during an earlier part of the [[Quaternary]] period and became isolated in the landlocked Caspian Sea when continental ice sheets melted.
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  • ...18th century. The Mongolian subspecies (''S. t. mongolica'') is found only in western Mongolia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Saiga/mongolian Saiga (''Saiga tatar ...relationship between the two, till [[phylogenetics|phylogenetic]] studies in the 1990s revealed that though morphologically similar, the Tibetan antelop
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  • | image_caption = A Bactrian camel in the [[Shanghai Zoo]] ...side has only one hump.</ref> Its population of two million exists mainly in the [[Domestication|domesticated]] form.<ref name=EDGE>{{cite web| url= htt
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  • | headquarters = New York City ...ety International, Inc.''' ('''AOSI''') is a U.S. public charity organized in 2003 under the laws of the State of [[Delaware]].<ref name=PCAbout>[http://
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  • ...through many territorial divisions before the current borders were created in the 1920s and 1930s. [[File:SovietCentralAsia1922.svg|right|250px|thumb|Map of Soviet Central Asia in 1922 with the Turkestan ASSR and the Kyrgyz ASSR]]
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  • ...mi-[[Eurasian nomads|nomadic]] [[Eurasian Steppe|steppe]] people mentioned in [[China|Chinese]] records from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD. ...re last mentioned by the Chinese as having settled the [[Pamir Mountains]] in the 5th century AD. They possibly became subsumed into the later [[Hephthal
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  • |caption=Qara Khitai in Asia, c. 1200 AD. ...ch they would soon [[Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia and Eastern Iran|invade in 1219]].
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  • [[Image:Scythia-Parthia 100 BC.png|thumb|300px|Scythia and Parthia in about 170 BC (before the [[Yuezhi]] invaded Bactria).]] ...in]] and [[Taklamakan desert]] region of [[Northwest China]], they settled in [[Kingdom of Khotan|Khotan]] and [[Kashgar]] which were at various times [[
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  • ...|year=1997|publisher=[[Eisenbrauns]]|isbn=978-1-57506-020-0|page=284|quote=In the Middle Persian period (Parthian and Sasanian Empires), Aramaic was the ...an language|Parthian]] (administration, until the late 3rd-century) spoken in the north and east, and by the [[seven Parthian clans]]){{sfn|Daryaee|2008|
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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> ...</ref>/Gasani}}<ref>{{harvnb|Golden|2001a|p=33}}.'Somewhat later, however, in a letter to the Byzantine Emperor Basil I, dated to 871, Louis the German,
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  • ...ut binding targets}} {{legend|#EEEE00|Annex B parties with binding targets in the first period but which withdrew from the Protocol}} {{legend|orange|Sig | date_effective = 16 February 2005<ref name=parties/>
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  • ...on facilitating economic diplomacy|url=http://www.kazakhembus.com/content/new-tasks-president-facilitating-economic-diplomacy|publisher=Foreign Ministry ...n&id=132061</ref> Kazakhstan has called for “intra-regional integration in Central Asia” and international integration of the region.<ref name=TW1>{
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  • ...Siberia wait to disembark from a ship at Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, in 1946]] ...April 2000.</ref><ref name=zagor>[http://www.auditorium.ru/books/407/ POW in the USSR 1939–1956:Documents and Materials] {{webarchive|url=https://web.
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