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Would the Koran Have Been Approved by the Government?
I’ve been meaning to post on the new religion law which just passed the Senate in Kazakhstan leaving it up to the president to sign. The Huffington Post has nice breakdown of the law, what it says and where it sits in historical context. And a link to a nice review of the law! As […]
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Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
Yet another story about Kazakhstan and marijuana in only a few weeks. This little teaser for a documentary to be shown today on Australian TV implies that THC first evolved in Kazakhstan. Off-hand it seems to me that would be a much bigger tourist draw than apples OR wolves…. Plus, the tourists you would attract […]
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Naked Man Pot
Heard about this one via Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me and tracked down an RFE/RL article about it: the most concentrated and popular form of marijuana is so-called “plastilin” (plasticine), and the way it is harvested and produced has not changed for centuries. It begins with a freshly showered person riding naked for hours on […]
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Olzhas Suliemenov ill http://t…
Olzhas Suliemenov ill http://t.co/0KFCRox
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WTF? RT @randomdijit: Register…
WTF? RT @randomdijit: Registering poor voters is anti-social, Un-American and “like giving burglary tools to criminals” http://t.co/y5WMhJp
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No Marrying Foreigners?
This was one I couldn’t pass by without commenting on even though it will probably come to nothing. One citizen of Kazakhstan, Arman Turdaliyev, left a comment on Karim Massimov’s blog recently, saying that the only way to stop China from taking over Kazakhstan slowly was by preventing all foreign marriages. Dear Karim Kazhimkanovich! As […]
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Wow! RT @RussianSphinx: From t…
Wow! RT @RussianSphinx: From the archive, 2 September 1918: Reported death of Lenin – shot by a woman http://t.co/iXpO4P5 #Russia
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A few years back I was mugged …
A few years back I was mugged by a group of Russians. Was there a riot to protest Slavic lawlessness? No.
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Can You Read This in Kazakhstan?
I suppose it would be a badge of honor to be on the list of 13 foreign sites blocked by Kazakhstan (that article seems to no longer be there, but this link takes you to the same article) because, “These Internet resources … spread materials with propaganda of terrorism and religious extremism and open calls […]
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RT @randomdijit: #Kazakhstan: …
RT @randomdijit: #Kazakhstan #Aqtau activist jailed after returning from protest at Kazakh embassy in Moscow. http://t.co/uKDh9rL can they?
