Independence Day of Kazakhstan
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On December 16, 1991, the Supreme Council adopted the law on the independence and state sovereignty of Kazakhstan. The Republic of the last of the countries of the former USSR adopted such a law.
Besides, it's a memorial day. People take to the Republic Square in Almaty to commemorate the victims of the December 1986 events. "Independence Day of Kazakhstan" is the highest state holiday of the republic.
Mass festivities are held throughout the country, meetings are held with witnesses of those events. These days also award various figures of culture, sports, politics, art and other spheres of life. There are “holiday amnesties”.
In all cities, villages, festive concerts are held, in the evening fireworks are let into the sky.