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Current AffairsGovernment approves repatriation of remainder of Czech community from Kazakhstan
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able to return to their homeland. The government this week approved a
programme which will involve the repatriation of 170 Kazakhstani Czechs.
As part of a similar scheme, several hundred Czechs moved back from
Kazakhstan in the 1990s. The Czechs first started settling in Kazakhstan
in the mid-19th century. When the current repatriation programme concludes
there will be no Czechs left in Kazakhstan.
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