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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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  • ...ath-laying ceremony to the [[Ğabdulla Tuqay]] memorial on October 3, 2007 in [[Almetyevsk]], Republic of [[Tatarstan]], [[Russia]] ...e graduated from [[Al-Farabi University]] in [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]] in 1950 as a [[mathematician]] and then became a faculty member of the School of Ma
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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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  • [[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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  • {{redirect|Ilchi|the villages in Iran|Ilkhchi (disambiguation)|other uses|Khotan (disambiguation)}} |official_name = <!-- Official name in English if different from 'name' -->
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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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  • ...r|1913|13 December}}, Petropavlovsk, [[Russian Empire]], now [[Petropavl]] in [[Kazakhstan]]<ref name=fv>{{cite book|year=2013|author=Boris Gorelik|title ...ldwide in huge numbers. According to his biographer Boris Gorelik, writing in ''Incredible Tretchikoff'',<ref>http://www.artbookspublishing.co.uk/incredi
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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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  • ..., 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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  • ...]] (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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  • [[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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  • |name = Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others ...natories of the convention. States parties in dark blue. State signatories in light blue
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  • | location_signed = New York<ref name=UNTC-CERD/> ...requires its parties to outlaw [[hate speech]] and criminalize membership in racist organizations.<ref name=Art4>ICERD, Article 4.</ref>
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  • ...nd Cultural Materials''' (also known as the '''Florence Agreement''') is a 1950 [[UNESCO]] [[multilateral treaty|treaty]] whereby states agree to not impos ...xcessive advertising is defined as more than 70 per cent of physical space in newspapers and periodicals and more than 25 per cent of space for other wor
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  • ...ted in August 1949, and defines humanitarian protections for [[civilian]]s in a [[war|war zone]]. There are currently [[List of parties to the Geneva Con ...ng them binding on non-signatories to the Conventions whenever they engage in armed conflicts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/icty/icty.ht
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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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  • ...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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