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Kazakhstan to have early presidential vote in 2 months

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13 killed in military helicopter’s crash in Kazakhstan

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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev speaks during a televised address to the oil-rich nation in Astana, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, March 19, 2019. President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday after three decades in power, raising uncertainty over the future course of the Central Asian country. (Kazakhstan's Presidential Press Service via AP)

The Latest: Kazakh capital renamed after outgoing president

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FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 file photo, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev arrives for an EU-ASEM summit in Brussels. The president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled the oil-rich ex-Soviet nation for nearly three decades, announced his resignation in a televised address to the nation on Tuesday March 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

Kazakhstan’s president to step down after 30 years in power

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

In this March 29, 2018, photo, Serikzhan Bilash, a prominent activist campaigning against Chinese internment camps, gestures as he speaks to The Associated Press at a restaurant in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Bilash was arrested by Kazakh police at an Almaty hotel on Sunday, March 10, 2019 and taken to Astana, Kazakhstan's capital. The detention of hundreds of thousands and possibly over a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities in China's far west has been a touchy issue in neighboring Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Kazakh activist decries official pressure in China spat

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

In this March 29, 2018, photo, Serikzhan Bilash, a prominent activist campaigning against Chinese internment camps, gestures as he speaks to The Associated Press at a restaurant in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Bilash was arrested by Kazakh police at an Almaty hotel on Sunday, March 10, 2019 and taken to Astana, Kazakhstan's capital. The detention of hundreds of thousands and possibly over a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities in China's far west has been a touchy issue in neighboring Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Court puts Kazakh activist under house arrest

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Kazakhstan president fires govt over low living standards

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In this Dec. 8, 2018, photo, Adilgazy Yergazy, a farmer, holds up pictures of his detained younger brothers at his home in a village near Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry says China is allowing more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to abandon their Chinese citizenship and leave the country, a sign that Beijing may be starting to feel a mounting backlash against a sweeping crackdown on Muslims in its far west region of Xinjiang. Yergazy says two of his little brothers were arrested and taken to internment camps last year, and that one was recently released from the camps but is unable to leave China. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

China allowing 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to leave Xinjiang region

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press

Boston Marathon bomber’s friend deported to Kazakhstan

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Illustration on freedom of religion by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Is Central Asia becoming a model for religious tolerance?

By L. Todd Wood

U.S. astronaut Nick Hague, right and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), speak prior to the launch of Soyuz MS-10 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

The Latest: NASA exploring flying space station without crew

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Kazakhstan denies asylum to ex-Chinese camp worker

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

In this April 2, 2018 file photo, a Chinese flag is seen on the end of a railway track at the Khorgos Gateway, one of the world's largest dry dock in a remote crossing along Kazakhstan's border with China near Khorgos. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

Astana’s international financial center - build it and they will come

By L. Todd Wood - The Washington Times

Kazakhstan moves toward spiritual revival instead of ‘multiculturalism’

By L. Todd Wood

A bird flies in front of the trail of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-09 space ship, carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, as it blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, June 6, 2018. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Soyuz capsule with 3 astronauts docks with space station

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A Russian search and rescue team helicopter flies from the Kazakh town of Karaganda to Dzhezkazgan, on the eve of Russian Soyuz MS space capsule landing, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, June 3, 2018. The return of the Soyuz space capsule with Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, U.S. astronaut Scott Tingle, and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, ISS is scheduled on Sunday, June 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Pool)

Russian space capsule with 3 astronauts lands in Kazakhstan

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Illustration on the preservation of good relations with Kazakhstan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

A little pivot to Central Asia

By Clifford D. May

Ryan Harrison, left, of the United States, and Jack Sock celebrate after winning a point during a Davis Cup quarterfinal doubles tennis match against Belgium Saturday, April 7, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Doubles’ win by Sock, Harrison puts US in Davis Cup semis

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Davis Cup: Croatia and Kazakhstan 1-1 in quarterfinals

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This image provided by NASA on Feb. 25, 2018, shows from bottom to top: Russia’s Alexander Misurkin, NASA’s Mark Vande Hei, middle, and NASA’s Joe Acaba posing for a photograph at the International Space Station. The three astronauts are headed back to Earth on Tuesday, Feb. 27, following a nearly six-month mission at the International Space Station. Misurkin, Vande Hei and Acaba moved into the orbiting lab in September. They are targeting a Kazakhstan touchdown for their Russian capsule. (NASA via AP)

3 space station astronauts return to Earth

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press