Address by the Rector of Shakarim University, Duman Orynbekov, to Students, Faculty, Staff, and Fellow Citizens on the Occasion of August 29 — the Closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear
Dear students, faculty members, colleagues, and fellow citizens!
August 29 is forever inscribed in world history as the day when Kazakhstan became the first nuclear-armed state to say a firm “no” to nuclear testing.
In 1991, by decree of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Semipalatinsk...