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...[equality under the law]]. The Convention has served as the major catalyst in the global movement from viewing persons with disabilities as objects of ch ...s |date=2016-10-12 |accessdate=2017-04-20}}</ref> In December 2012, a vote in the United States Senate fell six votes short of the two-thirds majority re

...he 18,000 km² 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

|caption=Brezhnev in [[East Berlin]] in 1967 ...beginning of [[Era of Stagnation|an era of economic and social stagnation in the Soviet Union]].

|caption=The Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and 2014 (right) ...f 1853 published for the ''Journal of the [[Royal Geographical Society]]'' in London]]

...ened ten people, of whom 3 died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002.<ref>Broad, W.J. and Miller J. (2002), “Traces of Terror: The Bioter ...ev and D. Yeleukenov (1999), ''Former Soviet Biological Weapons Facilities in Kazakhstan: Past, Present and Future''; Monterey, Calif: Monterey Institute

|image_caption = Aralkum with the remaining areas of the Aral Sea in 2014 ...008 }}</ref> It lies to the south and east of what remains of the Aral Sea in [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Kazakhstan]].

| hq_location_country = [[Russia]] ...к», from Маяк 'lighthouse') is one of the biggest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing plutonium production reactors and a reproce