Kazakhstan
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| Capital | Nur-Sultan |
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| Presidents | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev |
| Population | 18. 04 million (2017) |
| Currency | Kazakhstani tenge |
| Official_languages | Kazakh |
| Russian | |
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| ID | 764140 |
About Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country and former Soviet republic, extends from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Altai Mountains at its eastern border with China and Russia. Its largest metropolis, Almaty, is a long-standing trading hub whose landmarks include Ascension Cathedral, a tsarist-era Russian Orthodox church, and the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan, displaying thousands of Kazakh artifacts.
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Thousands of people have been detained at anti-war protests across Russia on Sunday, rights groups and Russian authorities say.
Some 1,700 people were detained in Moscow alone, the RIA news agency reported, citing The Interior ministry.
The OVD-Info rights group says detainments took place in 49 cities.
Although protests have become increasingly restricted in recent years, rallies have taken place across Russia since the Ukraine invasion.
More Than 10,000 people have been detained since The War began 11 days ago, OVD-Info says.
" The screws are being fully tightened - essentially We Are witnessing military censorship, " Maria Kuznetsova , OVD-Info's spokeswoman, told Reuters news agency from Tbilisi in Georgia.
" We Are seeing rather big protests Today - Even in Siberian cities, where we only rarely saw such numbers of arrests. "
Earlier This Week , government critic Alexei Navalny - who is in jail on fraud charges - called for daily demonstrations against The Invasion , saying Russia should not be a " nation of frightened cowards".
However, A Number of new laws have made it harder to protest in Russia in recent years, rights groups say.
" Although Russian legislation avoids explicitly using terms like 'permit' or 'Ban '. . it effectively requires organisers to seek authorisation for their assemblies, "
According to OVD-Info - which was Set Up in 2011 - More Than 2,500 people were detained across Russia on Sunday.
It publishes The Names and locations of those arrested, as well as total figures.
" Each police department may have More detainees than published lists, " it says. " We publish only The Names of Those People about whom we know for certain and whose names we can publish. "
Protests did not just take place in Russia on Sunday, but around The World . In Kazakhstan - an ally of Moscow - a peace rally was permitted in Almaty, attended by around 2,000 people.
In Brussels, anti-war protesters also took to The Streets .
And on Saturday, protests Even - which is occupied by Russian forces.
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