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  • NurOtan lists for MPs includes…

    NurOtan lists for MPs includes an awful lot of athletes and singers.

  • Raiding and Inspecting Religious Groups Begins

    So as the end of the year approaches, I’m looking at all the articles I bookmarked or starred on Google Reader and tweets I favorited and then never blogged on. I’m going to try to make up for that. So here’s one on the first victims of the new religion law: Alleged Extremist Materials Confiscated […]

  • NAN forgot KZ used to have 2 p…

    NAN forgot KZ used to have 2 parties in Parliament before Asar merged with Otan Can they make up their minds? http://t.co/toyIkFKX

  • Altho I have little doubt she …

    Altho I have little doubt she was aiming it at someone in studio. And not Obama

  • Classy @RussianSphinx: Russian…

    Classy @RussianSphinx: Russian TV newsreader sacked after raising middle finger to Barack Obama http://t.co/MDAPVMgA #Russia

  • Peace Corps Leave Kazakhstan, but Why?

    It’s official. Peace Corps has left Kazakhstan. Official reasons are not given. However given that they didn’t let it just wind down, but instead evacuated volunteers with little notice and given that they didn’t make any official announcement until all volunteers were out, there are a lot of rumours out there as to why. Most […]

  • One news source on PC shutting…

    One news source on PC shutting down. Altho it does site those human sacrifice rumors… http://t.co/O7g2xKmH

  • http://t.co/0aKp4RYr another P…

    http://t.co/0aKp4RYr another PCV says goodbye to Kazakhstan (in Kazakh). I believe he says the govt of KZ asked the PCVs to go.

  • Sad that a PCV was accused per…

    Sad that a PCV was accused personally of being a spy. http://t.co/xtU2RLpD

  • An MO got a random phone call …

    An MO got a random phone call and immediately agreed? but any other idea takes years @randomdijit http://t.co/cGbgiElx via @RFERL