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22 Jun 2009
Source: Reuters
 
A boy follows his horse near the village of Budene neighbouring the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site June 18, 2009. Kazakhstan marks the 20th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site this year. Hundreds of thousands of residents, subjected to the equivalent of 20,000 Hiroshima bombs during 40 years of Russian nuclear bomb tests, are still sickened by the legacy of their past. Picture taken June 18, 2009. To match feature NUCLEAR-SOVIET/KAZAKHSTAN REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN ANNIVERSARY POLITICS HEALTH ANIMALS)
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Mukhametzhar-haji, an Uighur warden of a mosque, speaks during an interview at the mosque in Almaty July 15, 2009. As clashes between Uighurs and Han Chinese erupted in July in the ...




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