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...=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-09-08}}</ref> In April 2015, Nazarbayev [[Kazakhstani presidential election, 2015|was re-ele ...esided over an authoritarian regime.<ref name="dissent"/> No election held in [[Kazakhstan]] since independence has met international standards.<ref name

...n, P. P. (1988). Disiccation of the Aral Sea: A Water Management Disaster in the Soviet Union. Science. 241(4870), 1172 & 1175.</ref> ...there is debate as to what extent of these problems can be sourced to this environmental situation. The full effects could take a generation to fully materialize an

...sea, and desertification of former agricultural land. These issues are due in large part to Kazakhstan's years under the [[Soviet Union]]. ...oactive contamination]] at the [[Semipalatinsk]] nuclear testing facility (in fact a large zone south of [[Kourchatov]] ([[Курчатов]])) and along

...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=The Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and 2014 (right) |location = [[Kazakhstan]] - [[Uzbekistan]],<br>[[Central Asia]]

|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]].

| map_caption = Location of Khüiten Peak in Mongolia<br />(on the border with China) ...|Хүйтэн оргил}}, ''lit.'' ''"cold peak"'') is the highest point in [[Mongolia]], on the west side of the country along the border with [[PRC|C

| map_caption = Location in Mongolia | designation1_free2value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia|Asia]]