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========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1202918111_19">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Media<br><br>I wrote:<br><br>... Kazakhstan's Almuty (Alma-Ata) ...<br><br>Make that Almaty.<br><br>Apparently there are lots of ethnic "Germans" in and around Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, about 6% of the population.<br>
<br>Kyrgyzstan has around 20,000 Germans (including Mennonites), and their emigration is reported to be the lowest in Central Asia, which is attributed to Kyrgyzstan being (at least being considered) the most tolerant of all Central Asian nations. This applies to other ethnic Europeans and to the Korean and Dungan ("Chinese Muslim") populations as well.<br>
<br>As for making contacts with German-speaking associations, you might want to write to the German embassies in the relevant countries:<br></span><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>Kazakhstan:</li><ul>
<li><a href="http://www.astana.diplo.de/Vertretung/astana/">http://www.astana.diplo.de/Vertretung/astana/</a><br> </li><li><a href="mailto:info@astana.diplo.de">info@astana.diplo.de</a></li></ul><li>Kyrgyzstan:</li><ul><li>
<a href="http://www.bischkek.diplo.de/Vertretung/bischkek/">http://www.bischkek.diplo.de/Vertretung/bischkek/</a></li><li><a href="mailto:info@bischkek.diplo.de">info@bischkek.diplo.de</a><br></li></ul><li>Tajikistan:</li>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.duschanbe.diplo.de/Vertretung/duschanbe/">http://www.duschanbe.diplo.de/Vertretung/duschanbe/</a></li><li><a href="mailto:info@dusc.diplo.de">info@dusc.diplo.de</a></li></ul><li>Uzbekistan:</li>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.taschkent.diplo.de/Vertretung/taschkent/">http://www.taschkent.diplo.de/Vertretung/taschkent/</a></li><li><a href="mailto:info@taschkent.diplo.de">info@taschkent.diplo.de</a><br></li></ul></ul>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">By the way, after all this time they still don't have versions in Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik and Uzbek up. Outrageous! The same applies to the US and UK embassies, most of which don't even have Russian versions up while all German embassies do (which, however, don't have English versions). We've got a long way to go.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br><br><br></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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