• Uzbekistani artist Nikolai Shin spent more than two decades working on his 44-metre-long painting Requiem, which depicts the 1937 deportation of the Koryo-saram to Central Asia?

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Koryo-saram

• Kazakhstan-South Korea relations are strengthened by the presence of 100,000 Koryo-sarams in Kazakhstan?
• Uzbekistani artist Nikolai Shin spent more than two decades working on his 44-metre-long painting Requiem, which depicts the 1937 deportation of the Koryo-saram to Central Asia?

Kazakhstan

• fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly?
• Kazakh dissident Rashid Nugmanov's directorial debut, Igla, was one of the first films to break the taboo against talking about drug addiction in the former Soviet Union and initiated the "Kazakh New Wave" cinema movement?
• Kazakhstan and Turkey have sought to promote closer bilateral relations and foster close ties between Turkic nations of Central Asia?
• Kazakhstan-South Korea relations are strengthened by the presence of 100,000 Koryo-sarams in Kazakhstan?
• although presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan have been requested to give technical advice about software patches in open-source computer operating systems, only the Ukrainian president did so?
• growing relations between Kazakhstan and People's Republic of China help China avert the establishment of U.S. military bases in Kazakhstan and harness its oil resources?
• the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
• the Kapchagay Reservoir in Almaty Province, Kazakhstan, was responsible for reducing the water level of Lake Balkash by roughly 7 feet (2.2 metres) in depth?
• the town of Sayram in Kazakhstan has earned the nickname "Little Uzbekistan" because of its large Uzbek population?

Moscow

• Moscow is home to an estimated 35,000 stray dogs, about 500 of which live in the metro stations?
• Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow, Russia, in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion (Lev) ornament or sculpture?
• American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1963, and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which were spent in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison?
• American communist Dennis E. Batt took part in the founding of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow in 1921?
• Archangel Gospel, the fourth oldest Eastern Slavic manuscript, was brought by a peasant from Arkhangelsk to Moscow in 1876?
• Bogdan Saltanov, the court artist of Tsar Alexis I of Russia, was born in Persia and granted Russian nobility eight years after arrival to Moscow?
• Emil Stang was a delegate to the Founding Congress of Comintern in Moscow in 1919?
• Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front?
• Fyodor Schechtel, the architect of Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia, was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878 for "bad attendance"?
• Inteco, a Russian company owned by Yelena Baturina, controlled 20% of the construction in Moscow?