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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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  • ...expense of sealing the fate of the larger South Aral. Work was completed in August 2005, with help from the [[World Bank]].<ref>[http://www.worldbank.o ...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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  • |completion_date = 2006 |opening = September 1, 2006
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  • ...ju-300-mln..html The 300 million dollars theatre Astana Opera prepares for new season], ''zakon.kz'', 2013 september 8. (russian)</ref> ...{lang-ru|Астана опера}}) is a newly constructed [[opera house]] in [[Astana]], [[Kazakhstan]], on the basis of an [[ukaze]] of [[Nursultan Naz
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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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  • | caption = View of the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi in Turkestan, Kazakhstan. | map_caption = Location in Kazakhstan
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  • {{MedalGold|[[2004 World Fencing Championships|2004 New York]]|Team}} {{MedalBronze|[[2006 World Fencing Championships|2006 Turin]]|[[2006 World Fencing Championships#Women's events|Team]]}}
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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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  • | 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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  • ...] (present [[Kazakhstan]]) is a [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] singer who placed third in [[SuperStar KZ|SuperStar KZ 3]], the Kazakh version of [[Pop Idol]]. Her name, "Altyn-ay", means "Golden-Moon" in [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]].
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  • ...aqstanım}}<br />{{small|''My Kazakhstan''}}<br/><center>[[File:Kazakhstan 2006.ogg]]</center> | 20.61% [[Russians in Kazakhstan|Russian]]
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  • ...ebsite=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=2006-11-14|accessdate=2006-11-14}}</ref> ...title=Oscar documentary shortlist focuses on politics and race|website=New York Times|date=2016-12-06|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/movies/oscars-
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  • | screens_per_capita = 1.2 per 100,000 (2006)<ref name=screens_uis>{{cite web|title=Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Cap ...' refers to the [[film industry]] based in [[Kazakhstan]]. [[Film|Cinema]] in Kazakhstan can be traced back to the early 20th century. Today, Kazakhstan
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  • ...><ref name="NYT1"/><ref name="NYDN1"/> The film was scheduled for release in early 2011.<ref name="TNYO1"/><ref name="RFE"/> ...village of Kusek. They discover it to be a modern and well-developed city in another country.
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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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  • ...e won two more gold medals with the Soviet team at the world championships in 1987 and 1989.<ref name=r3/> ...nt from competitions he coached gymnastics at the Woodward Gymnastics Camp in the United States, together with [[Vitaly Shcherbo]].<ref name=r2/>
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  • | proyears3 = 2006 ...the Vuelta a España|General classification]]''' ([[2006 Vuelta a España|2006]])
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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= Irina Mikitenko winning the German 10,000 metres Championship in 2006 ...ce runner]] who competes in [[marathon]]s. She won the [[Berlin Marathon]] in 2008 and is a two-time winner of the [[London Marathon]]. She has competed
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  • | caption = Antropov with the [[Winnipeg Jets|Jets]] in [[2011-12 NHL season|2012]]. ...nto Maple Leafs]]<br>[[Ak Bars Kazan]]<br>[[Lokomotiv Yaroslavl]]<br>[[New York Rangers]]<br>[[Atlanta Thrashers]]<br>[[Winnipeg Jets]]<br>[[Barys Astana]]
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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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  • {{Women in society sidebar}} ...rapid social and economic changes and instability after independence, and new emerging Western values.
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  • | image = [[File:Mantu in a steamer.jpg|250px]] | caption = Mantu in a steamer before cooking
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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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  • ...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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  • ...Studios]] for [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]]. It is the first game in the [[Syphon Filter|''Syphon Filter'' series]], the plot centres on special ...iculties due to the lack of inspiration from others and their inexperience in creating video games. Despite the initial drawbacks faced, ''Syphon Filter'
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  • | image = [[File:Borat in Cologne.jpg|250px]] ...Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev at the [[Germany|German]] premiere of ''Borat'' in 2006
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  • ...04|[[Traverse City Film Festival|Traverse City]]|2006|11|02|United Kingdom|2006|11|03|United States}} ...s/borat-cultural-learnings-america-make-benefit-glorious-nation-kazakhstan-2006-0 |publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |accessdate=9 Septemb
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  • | height = {{height|ft=6|in=2}} | youthyears1 = 2006–2009
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  • ...ferred to new ownership, headquartered in a new nation, it is considered a new team from 2007 onward. The team's manager for the 2007 season was former [[ ...oleni]] all either tested positive for doping or were otherwise implicated in scandals and fired from the team. [[José Antonio Redondo]] was also fired
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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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  • ...er professional [[ice hockey]] [[Forward (ice hockey)|forward]] who played in the [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) for the [[Chicago Blackhawks]], [[Phil ...e]] (WHL). After scoring 59 points in his sophomore season, he was drafted in the fifth round of the [[1997 NHL Entry Draft|1997 draft]] by the [[Chicago
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  • ...[[Denis Gauthier]]. He scored his first NHL goal as a Coyote on April 11, 2006 against the [[Colorado Avalanche]]. ...nd [[Al Montoya]]. Gratton was then assigned to the Rangers' AHL affiliate in Hartford.
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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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  • |caption = Hedman with the [[Tampa Bay Lightning]] in December 2014 ...Hockey League]] (NHL). Hedman was selected second overall by the Lightning in the [[2009 NHL Entry Draft]].
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  • ...[[Pittsburgh Penguins]] <br>[[New York Rangers]]<br>[[Boston Bruins]]<br>[[New Jersey Devils]]<br>[[Carolina Hurricanes]]<br>[[HC Davos]]<br>[[HC Lugano]] | draft_team = [[New York Islanders]]
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  • ...w Oblast]]<br />[[Traktor Chelyabinsk]] <br />[[Phoenix Coyotes]]<BR>[[New York Islanders]]<BR>[[Florida Panthers]]<br> [[Vityaz Chekhov]] <br />[[Seversta ...yotes]] for a third round pick in the [[2006 NHL Entry Draft]] on March 9, 2006.
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  • ...s ranking of world number 25. On 23 February, she peaked at world number 3 in the doubles rankings. ...her match against [[Sara Errani]], the only time a golden set was recorded in a Grand Slam.
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  • ...d 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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  • .../2008/108501.htm International Religious Freedom Report 2008] U.S. Embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan</ref><ref name=SECOND>[https://www.cia.gov/library/publi ...an|accessdate=15 November 2010}}</ref> There are two Baptist organizations in Kazakhstan: the Council of Churches of Evangelical Christians and Baptists,
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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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  • ...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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  • ...rojects in Turkey and China, has grown from its initial investment of $10K in 2000 to more than $500M today. He is the controlling shareholder of the lar ...rategy to apply his expertise and access to capital to seize opportunities in the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] (CIS) countries by leveraging ad
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  • ..., by Paul J Davies, Financial Times. 4 September 2006</ref> It was founded in 2002 by merging Kazakhoil and Oil and Gas Transportation.<ref name=KMG>[htt ...mer, accounting for 64% of its consolidated revenue in 2011, down from 75% in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fitch Rates KazTransGas & Intergas Central Asia
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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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  • ...exchange]] located in [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]]. The exchange was founded in 1993. ...ructural unit of Kazakhstan's National Bank. The main task assigned to the new exchange was to set up and develop the national currency market following t
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  • ...stan 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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  • ...dioLiberty</ref><ref name=RUSSIALIKE>[http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/04/aa651cf6-07c8-455b-8d88-9d3aca3d960a.html Kazakhstan: President looks to ...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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  • ...[[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] politician, writer, [[Georgian mafia|thief-in-law]] and leader of the paramilitary [[Mkhedrioni]] organisation. ..., for which he served 17 years in a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] jail. Released in 1965, he later served another sentence for [[manslaughter]]. He eventually
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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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  • ...Rivers Press), won the 2006 [[PEN/Open Book|PEN/Open Book Award]], and the 2006 [[Asian American Literary Award]] (Members' Choice Award). ...at the [[University of Minnesota]]; Kazakh State [[Al-Farabi University]] in [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]]; [[Indiana University]] and the [[University of
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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. ...50.htm|newspaper=Korea Times|date=22 September 2004|accessdate=20 November 2006|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050318164348/http://ti
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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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  • ...e value was preserved at 0.104% level it would be no less than 1.4 million in 2008</ref> ...the CIA estimate of the share of Kazakhs (3%), the total Kazakh population in Uzbekistan would be 0.8 million</ref>
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  • ...Mongolian plateau]] in the 12th century CE. The name "Tatar" first appears in written form on the [[Kul Tigin]] monument as 𐱃𐱃𐰺 (''TaTaR''). His The [[Mongol Empire]], established under [[Genghis Khan]] in 1206, [[wikt:subjugation|subjugated]] the Tatars. Under the leadership of G
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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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  • ...уз.svg|thumb|right|Approximate areas occupied by the three Kazakh hordes in the early 20th century; red represents the Senioren zhuz, orange represents ...on)|hundred]]") is one of the three main territorial and tribal divisions in the [[Desht-i Kypchak|Kypchak Plain]] area that covers much of the contempo
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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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  • |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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  • [[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> ...tment of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
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  • | status = Held in Guantanamo ...urrently held in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2>
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  • ...ears he spent in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2> ...tment of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
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  • | date=April 20, 2006 | title=Index for CSRT Records Publicly Files in Guantanamo Detainee Cases
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  • ...pdf |date=September 30, 2007 }}, ''[[US Department of Defense]]'', May 15, 2006</ref> ...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> ...tment of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
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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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  • |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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  • ...fig-gymnastics.com/events/athletes/bio.jsp?ID=4893 | accessdate = 17 April 2006 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070311045804/http://www.fig-gy ...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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  • ...0061008165730/http://www.koreaheute.de/kultur/0503/Kul007.htm |archivedate=2006-10-08 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref>
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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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  • ...Essays: Tatiana Gabroussenko, Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early Literary History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy|p ...n. The Soviets hoped that Cho would shape the cultural institutions of the new state based on the Soviet model. For the Soviets, the move was successful a
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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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  • ...itation |publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica Co. |publication-place = New York |title = Encyclopædia Britannica |publication-date = 1910 |oclc = 14782424 * 1918 - Soviets in power; city becomes part of the [[Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Rep
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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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  • ...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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  • ...atchagaev|first1=Mairbek|last2=|first2=|year=2005|title=The role of Sufism in the Chechen resistance|journal=North Caucasus Analysis|volume=6|issue=16|pa ...ssian army. He was killed in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village in northern Chechnya, in March 2005.<ref>[http://lenta.ru/articles/2005/12/02/bunker/ Кавказ:
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  • ...2013, and held the [[World Boxing Council|WBC]] [[heavyweight]] title from 2006 to 2008. ...1994 Asian Games|1994 Asian Games]]. His professional boxing career began in 1993.
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  • | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|8|26|1913|12|26|mf=y}} ...chikoff|publisher=Art / Books|ISBN=978-1-908970-08-4}}</ref> – 26 August 2006, [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]]) was one of the most commercially successf
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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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  • | term_end2 = 6 February 2006 ...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
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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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  • The [[Ural Mountains]] played a prominent role in [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] planning. [[Adolf Hitler]] and the rest of the Nazi G In 1725 [[Philip Johan von Strahlenberg]] first used the [[Ural Mountains]] as
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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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  • ...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 [[ |accessdate=2006-11-30 }}</ref>
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  • [[File:Modis aral.jpg|thumb|300px|Rebirth Island joins the mainland in mid-2001.]] ...mer island's territory is split between [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Kazakhstan]]. In 1954, the [[Soviet Union]] constructed a biological weapons test site calle
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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) ...f 1853 published for the ''Journal of the [[Royal Geographical Society]]'' in London]]
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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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  • ...a Soviet administrator in [[Belarus]] and then [[Kazakhstan]]. He was born in [[Krasnodar Krai]], Russia. ...] | issn =1427-7476 | url = | format = | accessdate = |language=pl}}</ref> In this aspect the forces under Ponomarenko's command initiated a limited coll
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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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  • ...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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  • .... 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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  • ...8): Eocene actinopterygian fishes from Pakistan, with the description of a new genus and species of channid (channiformes). ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleo ...axon|extant]] [[genera]] are ''[[Channa]]'' in Asia and ''[[Parachanna]]'' in Africa, consisting of about 35 species.
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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 ...cteristics, the [[monotypic]] [[genus]] ''Agrionemys'' was proposed for it in 1966. Today, ''Agrionemys horsfieldii'' is currently being accepted.<ref>Kh
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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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  • | 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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  • | caption = A depiction of the Jeltoqsan events on Republic Square in Almaty ...db=all "Nationalist riots in Kazakhstan: Violent nationalist riots erupted in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan, on 17 and 18 December 1986"], Informaw
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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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  • ...est of the Islamic states. The Mongol expansion would ultimately culminate in the conquest of virtually all of [[Asia]] (as well as [[Mongol invasion of ...ess than a year later, when a Mongol caravan and its envoys were massacred in the Khwarezmian city of [[Otrar]].
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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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  • ...-Khazarī''' ({{lang-ar|إيتاخ الخزري}}) was a leading commander in the [[Turkic peoples|Turkish]] army of the [[Abbasid]] caliph [[al-Mu'tasim ...f the senior commanders in al-Mu'tasim's "Turkish" guard, and participated in several expeditions such as the [[Sack of Amorium]].
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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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  • ...al|last2=Adams|first2=Jonathan M.|last3=Hall|first3=Thomas D|date=December 2006|title=East-West Orientation of Historical Empires|url=http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ ...72|pp=25–71|}}. This figure has been calculated on the basis of the data in both Herlihy and Russell's work.</ref>
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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_expiration = in force<br>(first commitment period expired 31 December 2012)<ref>http://unfc
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  • |caption =Participation in the Chemical Weapons Convention |location_signed = Paris and New York<ref name=untc/>
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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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