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Stuck without passports in Kazakhstan, Russians who avoided the draft face a ticking clock
In Kazakhstan, timeless Korean recipes are loved and maintained
What's behind unrest rocking oil-rich Kazakhstan
Russian film crew in orbit to make first movie in space
Biden and Putin hold first call as counterparts; Sanofi to support rival vaccine production; Linda Thomas-Greenfield faces confirmation hearing
US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first conversation as counterparts on Tuesday. And, Sanofi announced plans help manufacture more than 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech. Also, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, President Joe Biden's nominee to US ambassador to the United Nations, faces lawmakers for her Senate confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill .
Kazakhstan's 'Qazaq-pop' boy band Ninety One challenges gender norms
The group makes headlines for their catchy tracks and their appearance — which often sparks discussion about identity.
China's new Silk Road traverses Kazakhstan. But some Kazakhs are skeptical of Chinese influence.
The tradeoffs of China's investment in Kazakhstan require Kazakhs — most of whom are Muslim — to reckon with the persecution of Muslim minorities just across their border.
Cold War 'CORONA' satellite images find second life in ecology research
Some of the more than 800,000 satellite images taken during the Cold War are being used by researchers to track biodiversity and species decline.
Power outage: How did global leadership change in 2019?
US President Donald Trump faces a Senate trial over whether to remove him from office in January. But impeachment is not the only way to remove a leader. Here's a look at political shake-ups around the world, where both legal and extralegal means to bring about regime change have made headlines.
Has Kazakhstan forgotten about its Polygon test survivors?
In the nuclear arms race against the US, the former Soviet Union performed more than 450 nuclear tests in an area known as the Semipalatinsk Test Site — also known as the Polygon — from 1949 to 1989. Winds blew the nuclear fallout and radioactive dust into neighboring villages, affecting anywhere between 500,000 to 1 million people.
Russian space rocket fails in mid-air, two-man US-Russian crew lands safely
The two-man US-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft taking them to the orbiting International Space Station had to make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday when a rocket failed in mid-air.
Kazakhstan's switch from Cyrillic to Latin is about more than just alphabets
Kazakhstan's president is betting that transforming the alphabet will help his country bolster its national identity, ditch its Russian and Soviet colonial past and better integrate itself in the modern world.
Soviet-era nuclear testing is still making people sick in Kazakhstan
People living near the Polygon, the old Soviet Union's biggest nuclear testing ground, are still suffering from diseases tied to high radiation levels.
Meet Zhdun, the tubby gray blob who's at home on Russian social media
It's not a cross between an elephant seal and the Pillsbury Doughboy. Russian internet users call the creature Zhdun, "the one who waits."