Kazakhstan
     
 

1.  Kazakhstan CIA Factbook
[By CIA THE WORLD FACTBOOK ]
 Kazakh (Qazaq) 63.1%, Russian 23.7%, Uzbek 2.8%, Ukrainian 2.1%, Uighur 1.4%, Tatar 1.3%, German 1.1%, other 4.5% (1999 census)

Muslim 47%, Russian Orthodox 44%, Protestant 2%, other 7%

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 21, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

2. Kazakhstan curbs religious freedom to halt militancy [By Dmitry Solovyov(REUTERS) ]
 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a tough religion law Thursday including a ban on prayer rooms in state buildings, aimed at stamping out Islamist militancy but criticized by Kazakhstan's top Muslim cleric and the West.