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ADB approves $240M to help Kazakhstan modernize transport, improve connectivity

Green Car Congress

The road is part of the Trans-Caspian Sea Transit Corridor Baku–Astrakhan–Atyrau–Aktobe–Aktau–Turkmen border, which connects Kazakhstan with Azerbaijan and Europe in the West, with the Russian Federation in the North, and with Turkmenistan in the South.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally. His parents—his father a businessman and newspaper correspondent, his mother a doctor—were comfortably well off. “I Research in Iran was nonexistent.”