A popular television celebrity in Russia's Siberian region of Sakha-Yakutia refused to anchor a broadcast on the Yakutian traditional Ysyakh Tuimaady holiday after the mayor of the regional capital announced that celebrations would be devoted to supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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In the latest move to get distance itself from Russian dominance, Kazakhstan has renamed a town in the region around Astana, the capital, after Kenesary Khan, who led the largest uprising against Russia's colonial troops in Kazakhstan in the 19th century before he was killed in 1847.
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