Myth examined
“All Kazakhstanis are ethnically Kazakh”
False. Ethnic Kazakhs make up roughly 70 percent of the population, but Kazakhstan officially records more than 130 nationalities and ethnic groups — among them Russians, Uzbeks, Ukrainians, Uyghurs, Germans, Tatars, Koreans, Azerbaijanis and many others.
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