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Soviet officials sent medical personnel into Kazakhstan to inoculate 200,000 Kazakhs from smallpox. [38] However, Kazakh victims of the famine were widely discriminated against and expelled from virtually every sector of Kazakhstan's society. [39] Soviet authorities referred to Kazakhs in private memos as "two-legged wolves". [40]
Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet; 4 Salken Daulenov (1907–1984) 15 July 1938 17 July 1938 2 days QKP: Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet; 5 Abdisamet Kazakhpayev (1898–1959) 17 July 1938 January 1947 ~6 months QKP — Ivan Lukyanets (1902–1994) Acting: January 1947 20 March 1947 ~2 months QKP: 6 Daniyal Kerimbayev
Kazakhstan, [d] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, [e] is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a small portion situated in Eastern Europe. [f] It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea.
Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament. According to the 2016 World Development report prepared by the World Bank Group, Kazakhstan ranks 28th among 193 countries in the e-Gov development rating. The "Information Kazakhstan – 2020" state program ...
Kazakhstan's global rank in the World Justice Project's 2015 Rule of Law Index was 65 out of 102; the country scored well on "Order and Security" (global rank 32/102), and poorly on "Constraints on Government Powers" (global rank 93/102), "Open Government" (85/102) and "Fundamental Rights" (84/102, with a downward trend marking a deterioration ...
Its capital was the site of the Alma-Ata Protocol on 21 December 1991 that dissolved the Soviet Union and formed the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place which Kazakhstan joined. The Soviet Union officially ceased to exist as a sovereign state on 26 December 1991 and Kazakhstan became an internationally recognized independent state.
Alash (Kazakh: Алаш партиясы, Alaş partiası; Kyrgyz: Алаш партиясы, romanized: Alash partiyasy) was a political party and liberation movement in the Russian Republic and Soviet Russia, and the ruling party of Alash Autonomy on the territory of present-day Kazakhstan and Russia.
In the 1870s–80s, schools in Kazakhstan massively started to open, which developed elite, future Kazakh members of the Alash party. In 1916, after conscription of Muslims into the military for service in the Eastern Front during World War I, Kazakhs and Kyrgyzs rose up against the Russian government, with uprisings until February 1917.