Kazakhstan

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Claressa Shields (left) of the United States celebrates her victory over Kazakhstan's Marina Volnova in a middleweight 75 kg semifinal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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United States' Jamel Herring, left, fights Kazakhstan's Daniyar Yeleussinov during a light welterweight 64-kg preliminary boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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A Soyuz-FG rocket booster with a Soyuz TMA-05M spaceship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday, July 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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A Russian space agency rescue team carries U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit (center) shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz space capsule near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Sunday, July 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, Pool)

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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, laughs with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, center, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during their joint statement at the Nuclear Security Summit at the Coex Center, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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This undated promotional photo, provided by Twentieth Century Fox, shows actor Sacha Baron Cohen, center, in a scene from the film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Nation of Kazakhstan." On Sept. 29, 2020, Amazon announced it would release its sequel to the 2006 film on its Amazon Prime streaming service prior to the U.S. general election. (AP Photo/Twentieth Century Fox) **FILE**

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In 2006's "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," Sacha Baron Cohen (center) plays the title character — a culturally obtuse, absurdly bigoted, Pamela Anderson-obsessed Kazakh TV presenter. (Twentieth Century Fox)

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Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed such a union in the early 1990s, but the idea was premature for nations busy forging their own delicate statehoods. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Kazakh riot police officer (left) instructs others Dec. 17, 2011, before their patrol in center of Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Russian space engineers prepare the unmanned Phobos-Grunt probe for launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (AP photo/Russian Roscosmoc space agency)

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In this image made from the Rossiya 24 television channel, a Soyuz rocket booster carrying a Progress supply ship is launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. The spaceship, bound for the International Space Station, failed to reach its planned orbit, and pieces of it fell in Siberia amid a thunderous explosion, officials said. (AP Photo/Rossiya 24)

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In this Thursday, March 17, 2010 picture, Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly, left, is reunited with his twin brother, Mark Kelly following a flight back to Ellington Field in Houston from Kustanai, Kazakhstan. Scott Kelly landed in Kazakhstan on March 16 with his Russian crewmates in the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft after 159 days in space, 157 days on the International Space Station. Mark Kelly is in the final weeks of training as Commander of the final flight of Endeavour, STS-134, that will spend more than a week docked to the ISS. Endeavour is targeted for launch on April 19, 2011. (AP Photo/NASA, Rob Navias)

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US astronaut Scott Kelly is seen inside of Russian Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft shortly after their landing near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 16, 2011. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely Wednesday in the snowy expanses of central Kazakhstan after spending a five-month stint on the International Space Station.(AP Photo/Sergei Remezov, Pool)

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This image provided by NASA shows the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft shortly after arrival to the launch pad Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency are set to launch in the Soyuz to the International Space Station on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, at 2:09 p.m. EST. (AP Photo/NASA - Carla Cioffi)

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** FILE ** Anna Chapman, a Russian national who was deported from the United States this summer for alleged spying for Russia, is seen with an unidentified security man at a ceremony for a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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The Russian Soyuz TMA-01M space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station is transported from hangar to the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Friday, Oct. 8. (AP Photo/Shamil Zhumatov, Pool)

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The Russian Soyuz TMA-01M space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station is transported from hangar to the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Friday, Oct. 8. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)