KZBlog is going down (2)
After some thought, I have decided not to renew KZBLog’s lease. As you may have noticed, I don’t do a lot of posting here anymore. I don’t have time to blog regularly. Thus I am taking the site down–it does generate some ad revenue but not as much as it costs to keep it up. […]
Culture
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
2011-10-05 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
Resources
- Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Books for Kazakh Students
2011-11-06
- Oh, CNN
Politics
- Image
2011-07-28 - Sub Rosa Endorsement
2011-07-26 - The Naked Truth
2011-06-12
- Image
News
- KZBlog is going down
2013-09-10 - Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - Repentence
2012-07-15
- KZBlog is going down
Fun
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - House Hunters Bishkek
2011-12-02
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
Tourism
- Asian Games Torch
2011-01-12 - Wikitravel
2010-08-07 - ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy
2010-07-30
- Asian Games Torch
Life in KZ
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
2011-12-07 - Healthcare and the Private Sector
2011-11-30 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
Redbubble
Does everyone get a “press tab… (Comments Off on Does everyone get a “press tab…)
Does everyone get a “press tab to search this site” message in Google Chrome now? Just started today. Looks pretty cool
Google Transparency (2)
Probably to avoid bad press, Google has launched a new domain, Google Transparency Report, which shows how much traffic goes to different Google sites by country in order to see where services are blocked. The government request feature lets you see by country how many requests Google got to remove or censor content. Interestingly, Kazakhstan’s government has made fewer than 10 requests from July 2009 to June 2010, all in the calendar year of 2010 and none were complied with:
Looking at Blogger traffic, it has clearly been declining. Whether that is due mainly to government blockages or the perception of government blockages is unclear of course. There’s quite the little drop in January of 2010.
Any theories on what that spike is on June 6, 2010?
RT @AhmadShuja: Hekmatyar spon… (Comments Off on RT @AhmadShuja: Hekmatyar spon…)
RT @AhmadShuja: Hekmatyar sponsored ‘dozens’ of candidates in #Afghan10 http://yhoo.it/dCBwsq
Davis Cup Videos (1)
First set, Golubev cleans out Lammer.
Warming Up Sunday for the second match by Chris Merriman
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ITP Considers Renaming it the Andre Cup (Comments Off on ITP Considers Renaming it the Andre Cup)
Kazakhstan beat Switzerland 5-0 in the Davis Cup World Group playoffs this weekend, dropping only 2 sets in 5 matches. Andre Golubev was the star of the playoff, beating Marco Chiudinelli in 3 straight sets on Friday. Then he lead the doubles team with Yuri Schukin on Saturday to another straight sets victory over Yves Allegro and Stanislas Wawrinka, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Then today he slaughtered Michael Lammer 6-3, 6-2.
Mikhail Kukushkin also put in a world class performance, first against Wawrinka (#20 in the world), which took him 5 sets to win, including losing the fourth set 1-6. Today Kukushkin made short work of Chiudinelli 6-2, 6-4 dominating the entire match, except for a brief period in the second set when it looked like the Swiss player might stage a comeback. But it was a short-lived recovery and Kukushkin shut him down quickly.
Pictures to come later as well as anecdotal stories about the exuberant and amiable Swiss fans.
http://bit.ly/aQ9llo congratul… (Comments Off on http://bit.ly/aQ9llo congratul…)
http://bit.ly/aQ9llo congratulations Kazakhstan. 3-0 over Swiss in Davis Cup. 1st time Kazakhstan qualifies.
Off to Davic Cup playoffs. Go … (Comments Off on Off to Davic Cup playoffs. Go …)
Off to Davic Cup playoffs. Go Kazakhstan 2-0 in the first day. But hope today Swiss win so tomorrow will be exciting!
Kazakhstan 2017 (1)
It appears that Nazarbayev is planning to run again in 2012 and possibly in 2020, according to adviser and apparently defacto spokesperson Yermukhamet Yertysbayev. If he runs and wins, he will rule until 2017, and be 77 years old.
According to Yertysbayev, the President would like to see out the industrial-innovation strategy.
Anyone know where the National… (2)
Anyone know where the National Tennis Center in Astana is? Got tickets to Davis Cup playoffs but no idea where it is! #astana #kazakhstan
RT @russianlife: Russian autho… (Comments Off on RT @russianlife: Russian autho…)
RT @russianlife: Russian authorities using Microsoft to club down dissenters. http://nyti.ms/bPzqEf
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