Coming home; Kazakhstan; Bringing home the Kazakhs.(Asia)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 6, 2001 | Copyright information

ON A map, Kazakhstan looks impressive enough, covering an area the size of Western Europe. But it is mostly empty space, with a population of under 17m. With expansionist powers such as Russia and China for neighbours, Kazakhstan's leader worries that some day someone will develop an appetite for its territory. President Nursultan Nazarbaev's big idea has been to invite home all those Kazakhs, with their families, who left the country when it was part of the Soviet Union, or whose ancestors left even earlier in tsarist times. It is reckoned that about 4.5m Kazakhs live abroad, in ...

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