Women wearing Kazakh national dress stand in front of the Stronger than Death monument devoted to the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in the town of Semei June 18, 2009. Kazakhstan marks the 20th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site this year. Hundreds of thousands of residents, subjected to the equivalent of 20,000 Hiroshima bombs during 40 years of Russian nuclear bomb tests, are still sickened by the legacy of their past. Picture taken June 18, 2009. To match feature NUCLEAR-SOVIET/KAZAKHSTAN REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN ANNIVERSARY POLITICS SOCIETY HEALTH)
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