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...Scientists (FAS)|accessdate=19 July 2014}}</ref> The spaceport is located in the [[Kazakh Steppe|desert steppe]] of [[Baikonur]], about {{convert|200|km ...cosmodrome at the centre. It was originally built by the [[Soviet Union]] in the late 1950s as the base of operations for the [[Soviet space program]].

...=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

...manitarian and [[Educational institution|educational]] public institution in [[Kazakhstan]]. ==History==

...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

| 20.61% [[Russians in Kazakhstan|Russian]] |sovereignty_type = [[History of Kazakhstan|Formation]]

...World Short Course Championships]] in [[Shanghai, China]]. While residing in the United States, Polyakov is a five-time [[Southeastern Conference|SEC]] ...Sun-Sentinel]]|date=10 October 2000|accessdate=21 May 2013}}</ref> In June 1999, Polyakov came to the United States under the guidance of his mother Galina

...[World Organization of the Scout Movement]] |accessdate=2008-01-25}}</ref> In 2011, it had 1,223 members.<ref name="Census_2010">{{cite web |title=Trienn ==History==

| image = [[File:Borat in Cologne.jpg|250px]] ...on Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev at the [[Germany|German]] premiere of ''Borat'' in 2006

|prev= [[Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999]] |next= [[Safety and Health in Agriculture Convention, 2001]]

...ssed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1957. It entered into force in 1958 and as of 2013 it has 74 state parties. ...erhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations|year=1999|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=9780801860287|pages=80}}</ref>

The Convention's purpose is to codify a basic international standard for women's political rights.<ref name=Cherif/> ....<ref name=Cherif>{{citation|last=Cherif|first=Feryal M.|title=Myths About Women's Rights: How, Where, and Why Rights Advance|year=2015|location=Oxford|publis

...dopted by the [[United Nations General Assembly]] on 16 December 1966, and in force from 3 January 1976.<ref name=refworld/> It commits its parties to wo ...Council]] was given the task of drafting it.<ref name=ohchr-fs2/> Early on in the process, the document was split into a declaration setting forth genera

| date_signed = 6 October 1999<ref name=parties/> ...nto the [[Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez|systematic killing of women]] in the Mexican city of [[Ciudad Juárez|Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua]].

...e = CEDAW Participation.svg|right|400px|thumb| Participation in the CEDAW ...mination Against Women''' ('''CEDAW''') is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the [[United Nations General Assembly]].

...dopted by the [[United Nations General Assembly]] on 16 December 1966, and in force from 23 March 1976. It commits its parties to respect the [[civil and ...ommittee requests (usually every four years). The Committee normally meets in Geneva and normally holds three sessions per year.

...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]]

...eri-Low2007">{{cite book|author=Anthony Jerome Barbieri-Low|title=Artisans in early imperial China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6M26AAAAIAAJ&q=Z ...a Chinese army. The better-known [[Battle of Talas]] in AD 751 was fought in the same area.

...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

[[Image:Scythia-Parthia 100 BC.png|thumb|300px|Scythia and Parthia in about 170 BC (before the [[Yuezhi]] invaded Bactria).]] ..., such as the [[Han dynasty|Han]] and [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] dynasties of [[History of China|Imperial China]].

...e [[bicameral]] [[Parliament of Kazakhstan]], known as the ''Parlamenti'', in the [[Government of Kazakhstan]]. The upper house of Parliament is the [[Se ==Brief history==

...resentative (Ambassador) of Kazakhstan to the [[United Nations]] from 1992-1999.<ref name=Permanent>{{Cite web|url=http://www.un.int/permreps/kazakstan.htm ...United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)(1999-2001).{{cn|date=August 2016}}

|caption=Brezhnev in [[East Berlin]] in 1967 [[History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)|Brezhnev Era]]<br />

| designation1_free1value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia|Asia-Pacific]] |piccap="Silk Road" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters

...n the world, incorporating numerous [[drilling platform]]s. It is featured in the [[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book]] as the world's first offshore ==History==

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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]]

'''Koktobe''' ([[Kazakh language|Kaz.]] Kөktөbe) is a village in [[May District, Kazakhstan|May District]] of [[Pavlodar Region]] of [[Kazak ...ation was {{Kz-census1999|4,131|punct=:}} (2,032 men and 2,099 women), and in 2009 it was {{Kz-census2009|3,815|punct=:}} (1827 men and 1988 women).

...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

...6-98/f96-98.htm The New Russia of Vladimir Zhirinovsky: Fascist Tendencies in the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia] ([[NATO]])</ref><ref name=abroadath ...e Carbonnel|author2=Alessandra Prentice|title=Armed men seize two airports in Ukraine's Crimea, Yanukovich reappears|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/20

| caption = Population of Kazakhstan (in millions) from 1950–2009. ...ccessdate=18 March 2015}}</ref> but it is not uncommon to use '''Kazakh''' in both senses.<ref name=FCO>[http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroa

|group = Poles in Kazakhstan |poptime = 47,300 (1999 census)

...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

...e 1800s|Muslims in China that are sometimes still referred to by this name in Central Asian languages|Hui people}} |image = [[File:Dungan-Girls.JPG|250px]]<br/>Dungan girls in [[Shor-Tyube]], Kazakhstan

...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>

...= <ref>[http://www.stat.kz/news/Pages/pr_04_02_10.aspx Ethnic groups in Kazakhstan, official estimation 2010-01-01 based on National Census 2009]</ ...ame="USCB">{{cite web|title=PLACE OF BIRTH FOR THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, Universe: Foreign-born population excluding population b

...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>

[[File:China-Xinjiang.png|thumb|200px|Xinjiang's location in the [[People's Republic of China]]]] {{History of Xinjiang}}

|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

...er Olympics|1976 Montreal]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around|Team]] }} ...er Olympics|1976 Montreal]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's vault|Vault]] }}

...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.

...1963. It focuses on teaching [[economics]] and offers over 20 specialties in the fields of economics, finance, management, marketing, law, international == History ==

...ologist]]. He followed his father [[Sarsen Amanzholov]]'s steps continuing in this field of study. ...In 1975 he submitted his doctoral thesis on "Materials and research in the history of Old Turkic writing". 1979-1995 dean of the General Linguistics Faculty a

...eu-lifts-safety-ban|archivedate=11 April 2014 }}</ref> It was incorporated in October 2001 and started commercial flights on 15 May 2002. ==History==

...ion#Policy toward religions in practice|policy of oppression]] of religion in the former [[Soviet Union]]. Before that time, [[Kazakhstan]], as part of t |title=Religious Groups in Kazakhstan

...stan.jpg|thumb|[[Kazakh cuisine|Kazakh food]] preparation began to develop in the 13th century]] ...jpg|thumb|This 19th-century '''Star Kazak''' carpet sold for US$188,000 in 1999]]