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| Tajik-Afghan Friendship Bridge The Tajik-Afghan Friendship Bridge connects the two banks of Darvaz across the Amu Darya river separating Tajikistan and Afghanistan, at Khorog. Tajik-Afghan_Friendship_Bridge
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| Shahzada (Taliban commander) There are press reports that a Taliban field commander, named Mullah Shahzada, was held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo, and was released, only to return to the battlefield. Shahzada_(Taliban_commander)
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| Armenian Air Force The Armenian Air Force () is a small air arm formed by independent Armenia in 1992 in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It is organized and equipped principally to provide Armenian ground forces with tactical air support in the form of ground attack and airlift in mountainous terrain. Armenian_Air_Force
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| Gagik Tsarukian Gagik Nikolay Tsarukyan (), also known as Dodi Gago, is an Armenian politician and a wealthy businessman. He is seen as the most influential of Armenia's government-connected "oligarchs."Gagik Tsarukyan is the founder and leader of Prosperous Armenia Party and also the president of Armenia National Olympic Committee (was reelected on December 4, 2008). Gagik_Tsarukian
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| Yeraz Yeraz people, sometimes called Yer-az or Yerazi, are an Azerbaijani sub-group, also referred to as a clan, consisting of Azeris originally from present-day Armenia. The term Yeraz has double-meaning in the Azeri language:Yerevan"or through the separate words "yeri" and "az", meaning a person without a place.Due to longtime historic tensions between neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan, virtually all Yerazi have left Armenia for Azerbaijan and other countries before tensions exploded with the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Yeraz
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| Jeltoqsan Jeltoqsan () or "December" riot of 1986 was a spontaneous nationwide Jeltoqsan
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| Ermukhamet Ertysbayev Ermukhamet Qabidenuly Ertysbayev () served as the Minister of Culture, Information, and Sport in the Government of Kazakhstan until President Nursultan Nazarbayev split the Ministry of Culture, Information and Sport into a Culture and Information Ministry and a Tourism and Sport Ministry through a presidential decree on 27 March 2006. Nazarbayev appointed Ertysbayev the Minister of Culture and Information and Temirkhan Dosmukhanbetov the Minister of Tourism. Ermukhamet_Ertysbayev
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| Hizb-an-Nusra Hizb-an-Nusra () is an Islamist organization which the Uzbek government considers to be terrorist in nature that has operated in Uzbekistan since 1999. Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international terrorist organization, created Hizb-an-Nusra in Tashkent out of dissatisfaction with Hizb ut-Tahrir's inability to overthrow the Government of Uzbekistan.Akromiya, another Islamic Uzbek terrorist organization, broke away from HT in 1996. Hizb-an-Nusra
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| Turkmenization Turkmenization is the set of domestic policies the Niyazov administration used in Turkmenistan from 1991 to December 2006 to force ethnic minorities to adopt Turkmen culture. Those who resisted the state-sponsored cultural transformation were often deported.Antoine Blua of Radio Free Europe defined Turkmenization as the "policy of the Turkmen government targeting the education, employment, and religion of all of the country's non-Turkmen ethnic groups." Turkmenization
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| Flynt Leverett Flynt Leverett (born March 6, 1958 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a professor at the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs. From March 2002 to March 2003, he served as the senior director for Middle East affairs on the National Security Council. Flynt_Leverett
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| Copyright problems/2006 December 21/Articles Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2006_December_21/Articles
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| Copyright problems/2006 December 21 Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2006_December_21
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| Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (Russian transliteration:President of Turkmenistan since December 21, 2006, when he became acting president following the death of Saparmurat Niyazov, and the imprisonment of his constitutionally appointed successor, Öwezgeldi Ataýew. Gurbanguly_Berdimuhamedow
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| Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Talk:Gurbanguly_Berdimuhamedow
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| Phil Sandifer/Dictatorship User:Phil_Sandifer/Dictatorship
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| Melon Day Melon Day is an annual national holiday in Turkmenistan devoted to festivities to celebrate the country's muskmelon, in particular a recent crossbreed product named "Turkmenbashi melon" (after Turkmenistan's first president), which is praised for its aroma, taste and large size.This holiday was established by Turkmenistan’s previous president Saparmurat Niyazov in 1994, who preferred to be known as Turkmenbashi, or leader of the Turkmens. Melon_Day
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| History of fundamentalism in Iran The history of fundamentalist Islam in Iran (or History of Principle-ism) covers the history of Islamic revivalism and the rise of political Islam in modern Iran. Today, there are basically three types of Islam in Iran:traditionalism, modernism, and a variety of forms of revivalism usually brought together as fundamentalism. Neo-fundamentalists in Iran are a subgroup of fundamentalists who have also borrowed from Western countercurrents of populism, fascism, anarchism, Jacobism, and Marxism. History_of_fundamentalism_in_Iran
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