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Imagine a ski slope right in the middle of a city - that's the vision of an architect in Kazakhstan. His urban ski slope would descend from the top of a 21-story apartment building.

Kazakhstan has quietly assembled a recent track record of economic success. Between 2000 and 2013, the poverty rate declined dramatically from 47 percent to 3 percent.

A monument to Soviet rock legend Viktor Tsoi has been unveiled in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, the second such memorial to him in the Central Asian country.

What do Knoxville and Kazakhstan have in common? If you said they both start with "K," you're a genius, but that's not the answer. I'll give you some time to think ... I'm Ryan Wilusz, downtown ...

Kazakhstan fails to protect LGBT people from violence and discrimination. LGBT people in Kazakhstan an intensified climate of fear amid recent efforts to adopt an anti-LGBT “propaganda” law.