GERMANS PRESS TO LEAVE KAZAKHSTAN.

More than 400,000 ethnicGermans have left Kazakhstan in recent years, and most of theremaining 641,000 want to go, Moscow’s Ostankino television reportedJune 25. Local Germans told the station that they had no hopeof being able to develop their own national culture there or ofhaving a say in government decisions.

Kyrgyz Teenagers Drop Out of School.