whose achievements include two Paris–Nice victories (2002, 2003), third place in the 2003 Tour de France, and first place in the 2003 Amstel Gold Race. Vinokourov leads , which is supported by a coalition of Kazakh companies. This team is registered as a UCI ProTeam and competes in major races, including the Tour de France. Rugby union is a popular sport in Kazakhstan, with over 10,000 fans consistently turning up to watch the Kazakhstan national rugby union team play. Recent big wins over Sri Lanka and the Arabian Gulf Rugby Team have given the Kazakhstan side the reason to believe that they could have been contenders to qualify for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Kazakhstan has yet to qualify for the Rugby World Cup tournament. Ruhani Zhangyru President Nursultan Nazarbayev outlined six specific projects designed to start the spiritual modernisation of Kazakhstan in his keynote article “Course towards the Future: Modernisation of Kazakhstan's Identity," which was released in April 2017. The projects include the following: a step-by-step transition of the Kazakh language to the Latin alphabet and the New Humanitarian Knowledge 100 New Textbooks in the Kazakh Language Tugan Zher Sacred Geography of Kazakhstan Modern Kazakh Culture in the Global World 100 New Faces of Kazakhstan. The program also includes translation of the contemporary Kazakh literature and poetry into the UN's six languages. The official presentation of the Anthology took place in Almaty in April 2019. The presentation of the Anthology translated into English was held at the British Library in London on September 25, 2019. The Cambridge University Press along with the British literary translation experts translated and published the Kazakh literature collections in English. An important part of the program is the Seven Facets of the Great Steppe doctrine, which described by President Nazarbayev. The article described the seven facets of the Great Steppe: culture of horsemanship, ancient metallurgy of the great steppe, animal style, Golden Man, cradle of the Turkic world, the Great Silk Road and the land of apples and tulips. See also History of Kazakhstan Kazakh clothing Notes References - Kazakhstan Bruce Privratsky, Muslim Turkistan, pages 76–77 External links Embassy link for further culture questions Message Board in Kazakh Language The Musagetes Civic Charitable Foundation for Culture and Humanitarian Sciences Development Kazakhstan: history, geography, people, culture, traditions, holiday, living, life pt:Cazaquistão#Cultura