During this time period, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan became part of the USSR and in 1940, the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), which had previously been independent, were
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The Vostok 3KA-2 spacecraft carrying Gagarin, the 27-year-old son of a carpenter and a dairy farmer, took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, then part of the Soviet Union, on April 12, 1961. Although the landmark mission lasted just one hour and 48 minutes, it fired the ...
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on December 1, 1991, dealing what was essentially the death blow to the USSR. Gorbachev’sresignationand the dissolution of the Soviet Union came soon thereafter, granting new autonomy to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan...
All possibilities are being discussed, from the Gobi desert and Kazakhstan to Pakistan and Iran. Even though the geopolitics of the Indian subcontinent and the Indochina region has resulted in several nations carefully watching their radars for enemy aircraft on a fulltime basis. Somehow they all ...
Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia (Granted independence in September 1991 and is not a member of the CIS) Lithuania (Granted independence in September 1991 and is not a member of the CIS) Moldova (Formerly known as Moldavia) Russia Tajikistan
incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, run by members of the Ahsani family, that helps multinational corporations win contracts in jurisdictions known for corruption including Iraq, Kazakhstan, Libya, Syria, Tunisia and other African and Middle East countries, as well as the former Soviet Union...
It is possible that this new testing complex was also motivated by the fact that Kazakhstan—where Russia has historically test-flown its missiles into the Sary-Shagan site—is a state party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which requires “the elimination or irreversible ...
Chevron Corp. had to renegotiate an agreement it had signed with the former Soviet government to develop the Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan after the republic became independent--and in the process had to accept a 20% share of after-tax profits compared to the 28% it had originally won. Ch...