Cossacks and Kazakhs. (ethnic Cossacks are seeking more rights in Kazakhstan, such as dual citizenship in both Russia and Kazakhstan)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: December 17, 1994 | Copyright information

CENTRAL ASIA is rediscovering history buried for seven decades under Soviet propaganda. Now it is the turn of the Cossacks in Kazakhstan to sense a whiff of ancient times in the air--and translate it into new political demands.

Cossacks were the Russian farmer-soldiers the tsars settled on a turbulent border as their empire advanced into the nomadic Kazakhs' sparsely populated steppe. Many of the industrial towns of northern Kazakhstan, now mainly inhabited by ethnic Russian...

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