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An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘tragedy’

  • Crying Forever: Semey

    Struan Stevenson, a Scottish Conservative Member of the European Union has spent a lot of his career trying to bring public attention to the tragedies surrounding Semipalatinsk. During the Soviet period, the “Polygon” an area near this city was the testing-ground for nuclear weapons. As a result, the population still suffers from cancer, birth defects […]