The Republicans Welfare reform initiatives include plans to cut some child services and replace aid to dependent children and job training programs with capped block grants.

Individuals and groups testified before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee to grade the current welfare system and make suggestions to.

Individuals and groups testified before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee to grade the current welfare system and make suggestions to change it.

This was followed by the Kazakh War of Independence where the khanate gained its sovereignty from the Shaybanids.

For the Kazakh state television broadcaster, see Qazaqstan (channel).

It covers a land area of 2,724,900 square kilometres (1,052,100 sq mi), and shares land borders with Russia in the north, China in the east, and Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in the south while also adjoining a large part of the Caspian Sea in the southwest.

Kazakhstan does not border Mongolia, although they are only 37 kilometers apart, separated by a short portion of the border between Russia and China.

It has a population of 18.8 million residents, and has one of the lowest population densities in the world, at fewer than 6 people per square kilometre (15 people per sq mi).

Since 1997, the capital is Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana.

In antiquity, the nomadic Scythians inhabited the land and the Persian Achaemenid Empire expanded towards the southern territory of the modern country.

Turkic nomads, who trace their ancestry to many Turkic states such as the First and Second Turkic Khaganates, have inhabited the country throughout its history.

In the 13th century, the territory was subjugated by the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan.

By the 16th century, the Kazakh emerged as a distinct group, divided into three jz.

Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, and subsequent civil war, the territory of Kazakhstan was reorganised several times.

In 1936, it was made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union.

Kazakhstan was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Human rights organisations have described the Kazakh government as authoritarian, and regularly describe Kazakhstans human rights situation as poor.

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The Kazakhs are descendants of Kipchaks, Nogais and other Turkic and medieval Mongol tribes.

Archaeologists believe that humans first domesticated the horse (i.e., ponies) in the regions vast steppes.

During recent prehistoric times, Central Asia was inhabited by groups such as the possibly Proto-Indo-European Afanasievo culture, 19 later early Indo-Iranians cultures such as Andronovo, 20 and later Indo-Iranians such as the Saka and Massagetae.

In 329 BC, Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army fought in the Battle of Jaxartes against the Scythians along the Jaxartes River, now known as the Syr Darya along the southern border of modern Kazakhstan.

While ancient cities Taraz (Aulie-Ata) and Hazrat-e Turkestan had long served as important way-stations along the Silk Road connecting Asia and Europe, true political consolidation began only with the Mongol rule of the early 13th century.

Under the Mongol Empire, the largest in world history, administrative districts were established.

These eventually came under the rule of the emergent Kazakh Khanate (Kazakhstan).

In the 15th century, a distinct Kazakh identity began to emerge among the Turkic tribes.

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