Yearbook 2003 Kazakhstan. According to Countryaah.com, Kazakhstan Independence Day is December 16. Regime-critical journalist Sergei Duvanov was sentenced in January to three and a half years in prison for raping a young girl. Duvanov denied the crime, claiming the verdict was political. President Nursultan Nazarbayev declared before the verdict that Duvanov was guilty and should not be released. In February, the Minister of Energy announced that Kazakhstan plans to build…
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