Greeks in Kazakhstan

The Greeks of Kazakhstan are mainly the descendants of Pontic Greek who were deported there by Joseph Stalin, from southern Russia and the Caucasus region, at first the Crimean Greeks on 1944, under the resolution 5984 of June 2, 1944.[1] then the Caucasus (Greeks in Georgia and Greeks in Armenia, Greeks in Azerbaijan) Greeks on June 1949, Feb 1950, Aug 1950.[2][3] The total number of deported persons was about 60,000 people.[4]

Nowadays there are between 10 and 12 thousand ethnic Greeks living in Kazakhstan in 17 communities, which together with the Kyrgyzstan community make up the FILIA (friendship in Greek) Federation of Greek Communities of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The Federation prints a small newspaper, organizes dance events, and offers Greek language and dance classes. At the moment in Kazakhstan there are 6 ethnic Greek teachers funded by the General Secretariat of Greeks Abroad. Furthermore, Greek is taught by two teachers seconded from Greece.[5]

Notable people
gollark: So basically, the "god must exist because the universe is complex" thing ignores the fact that it... isn't really... and that gods would be pretty complex too, and does not answer any questions usefully because it just pushes off the question of why things exist to why *god* exists.
gollark: To randomly interject very late, I don't agree with your reasoning here. As far as physicists can tell, while pretty complex and hard for humans to understand, relative to some other things the universe runs on simple rules - you can probably describe the way it works in maybe a book's worth of material assuming quite a lot of mathematical background. Which is less than you might need for, say, a particularly complex modern computer system. You know what else is quite complex? Gods. They are generally portrayed as acting fairly similarly to humans (humans like modelling other things as basically-humans and writing human-centric stories), and even apart from that are clearly meant to be intelligent agents of some kind. Both of those are complicated - the human genome is something like 6GB, a good deal of which probably codes for brain things. As for other intelligent things, despite having tons of data once trained, modern machine learning things are admittedly not very complex to *describe*, but nobody knows what an architecture for general intelligence would look like.
gollark: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/348702212110680064/896356765267025940/FB_IMG_1633757163544.jpg
gollark: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
gollark: Frankly, go emit muon neutrinos.

See also

References
  1. {Ethnic cleansing in the USSR 1937 - 49] https://books.google.com/books?id=SnLANpCfDn4C&printsec=frontcover&hl=en p122
  2. Short Synopsis of the Pontian-Greek History
  3. Agtzidis, The Persecution of Pontic Greeks in the Soviet Union Journal of Refugee Studies, 1991, 4, pp. 372-381.
  4. {Ethnic cleansing in the USSR 1937 - 49] https://books.google.com/books?id=SnLANpCfDn4C&printsec=frontcover&hl=en p123, 126
  5. Greece MFA: Greek community in Kazakhstan Archived November 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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