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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan - Ethnic Variety and Oil Wealth

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Situated between China and Russia, in the north of a vast troubled region, Kazakhstan plays a major strategic role. Oil is its greatest asset. But the main challenge for the regime is to prevent a worsening of relations between the two dominant ethnic groups, Kazakhs and Russians, which are of almost equal size.