Kazakhs
The Kazakhs are a central Asiatic Turkic people whose language belongs to the Kipchak group of the Altaic family. Most Kazakhs identify themselves as Sunni Muslims. According to a 1997 populat...
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Suleimenov, Olzhas Omarovich
(b. 1936), Kazakh writer and politician. Olzhas Omarovich Suleimenov contributed to the rise of Kazakh nationalism during the Soviet era by publishing his controversial bo...
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Kazakhstan's longtime leader on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that waives presidential term limits and allows him to seek the top post indefinitely.Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has resis...
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev dissolved the lower house of parliament Wednesday and called early general elections in what the opposition called a maneuver to secure his grip on power in Kazakhsta...
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One of Kazakhstan's top cycling officials said disgraced cycling star Alexandre Vinokourov may have been targeted by Tour de France organizers who didn't want the Kazakh rider to win the race.Vinok...
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They see themselves as patriots who shed blood for their freedom in a rebellion that foreshadowed the demise of the Soviet Union.But the Kazakhs who took to the streets in mass protests in December...
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The son-in-law of Kazakhstan's president is being investigated by the Austrian branch of Interpol on suspicion of money laundering, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.The investigation of Rakhat A...
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The son-in-law of Kazakhstan's autocratic president has appealed to Austrian authorities not to extradite him to his homeland to face kidnapping charges, a magazine reported Saturday.In an intervie...
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Kazakhstan's leader on Wednesday proposed limited political reforms in the oil-rich country he has headed since the Soviet era, including shortening the presidential term from seven years to five a...
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Kazakhstan's parliament approved a constitutional amendment Friday that would waive term limits uniquely for President Nursultan Nazarbayev, allowing him to seek to stay in office indefinitely.The ...
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Astana/Moscow (dpa) - Kazakhstan's authoritarian President
Nursultan Nazarbayev has consolidated his grip on power via a series
of constitutional amendments that will allow ...
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Kazakhs
Kazakh president approves amendments
