Akayev fled Escaping to Kazakhstan and then to Russia .

For the fourth consecutive Summer Paralympics , China topped Placing the medal table , winning Getting 107 gold medals , while Georgia , Kazakhstan , Malaysia , Uzbekistan , and Vietnam won their first ever Paralympic gold medals .

Kazakhstan , Slovenia , and Ukraine , played Competition for the first time , in Group C. Belarus , Croatia , Estonia , and Lithuania all did not make it Causation out of the autumn qualifiers and had to wait at least another year .

Men 's teams from 13 countries participated Participation in the 2009 competition : Belarus , Finland , Kazakhstan , Norway , Russia , Sweden ( group A ) and Canada , Estonia , Hungary , Latvia , Mongolia , the Netherlands and the United States ( group B ) .

Finland took Earnings_and_losses the bronze , while Kazakhstan and Norway earned Earnings_and_losses fourth and fifth places , respectively .

Italy and Kazakhstan were relegated to Division I A .

The Soviet Union dissolved Dispersal in December 1991 , resulting in eleven new countries ( Armenia , Azerbaijan , Belarus , Georgia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Ukraine and Uzbekistan ) , which had declared their independence from the Soviet Union in the course of the year , while the Baltic states ( Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ) regained their independence in September 1991 .

Men 's teams from 11 countries participated Participation in the 2010 competition : Finland , Kazakhstan , Norway , Russia , Sweden , the United States ( group A ) and Canada , Hungary , Latvia , Mongolia and the Netherlands ( group B ) .

Their position in Group A would be inherited Giving by Russia , while newly independent former Soviet member states Belarus , Estonia , Kazakhstan , Latvia , Lithuania , and Ukraine began Process_start play in 1993 in qualification tournaments Competition for Group C. The tournament Competition itself would change Change significantly after this year as well .