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ASTANA – To this day, Kazakhstan has numerous descendants of Cossacks who became part and parcel of the multi-ethnic fabric of the country’s society. They mostly hail from those who began to come to these lands some three centuries ago as the Russian Empire expanded into the vast Eurasian expanse.
“The Siberian Cossacks first appeared on the territory of Kazakhstan some 300 years ago,” Yury Kashenkov, chairman of the public association Akmola Cossack Community, said. “They guarded the caravan routes from robbers. In 1830, Fyodor Shubin’s detachment arrived here …read more
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