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  Yes Virginia, Prices are Going Up Again

  Rosbalt, a Russian business news site, is reporting that due to the customs union which will be adapted on 1 Jan 2010, Kazakhstan will correct 50% of customs tariffs [RU]. The article is short so I’ll reproduce it here, in my translation. In preparation for the work of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan), […]

  12/20/09 • (2)

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  Disabled People Suffer

  There was a sad article the other day in Eurasianet about problems faced by disabled in Kyrgyzstan. I post it here because unfortunately many of the same problems exist in Kazakhstan. After doing a bit of research on the subject, I see there’s still a lot of work to be done to integrate disabled people […]

  11/24/09 • (3)

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  Customs Union Means Higher Prices?

  The Customs Union which is likely to come into force in January of 2010 between Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia has not been getting a lot of press in Kazakhstan. Lukashenko, President of Belarus recently made some interesting comments on the Union, criticizing the fact that there has been no good analysis on whether or not […]

  11/19/09 • (2)

• In Soviet Russia Philosophy Hurts You

  According to The Moscow Times: A debate between philosophers at an international forum ended in a fistfight Monday that left two people slightly injured, Interfax reported. A woman and man were injured in the fight at the International Philosophical Forum, held in the House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Ulitsa Prechistenka. […]

  11/17/09 • (2)

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  Proof that Apples Do Come from Kazakhstan

  Oxford University has just published research demonstrating that apples really did originate in Kazakhstan, by tracing genes in apples. The Story of the Apple, by Dr Barrie Juniper describes his research. He also notes that sadly due to Soviet policies and a focus on the oil economy, the apple forests of Kazakhstan are all but […]

  8/25/09 • (Comments Off on Proof that Apples Do Come from Kazakhstan)

• Oral History

  A great website Central Asia History, which consists of oral interviews with people from Kyrgyzstan, particularly focusing on older people and the early years of the Soviet Union, World War I, the settlement of nomadic people, World War II/the Great Patriotic War, and life now. It’s extremely interesting to read and I’d love to see […]

  5/19/09 • (Comments Off on Oral History)

• A Kyrgyz/Austrian/Russian blog

  Toktali is a blog written by a Kyrgyzstani who is currently living in Austria. It’s an interesting and nice looking blog with most posts in both German and English. It also has a post on one of the stories I neglected to post on here: Tourists Buy Nuclear Waste as a Souvenir! As Toktali writes: […]

  5/14/09 • (Comments Off on A Kyrgyz/Austrian/Russian blog)

• Manas Airbase

  The world news has covered this story pretty well. The President of Kyrgyzstan announced on a trip to Russia a few weeks ago that he would revoke the rights for the NATO airbase in Manas which has been serving coalition troops in Afghanistan. The US government responded with surprise as they had heard nothing before […]

  2/18/09 • (Comments Off on Manas Airbase)

• The CIA and Dr. Zhivago

  OK, this post has nothing to do with Kazakhstan per se and the story is already 2 years old. But 2008 marked the 50th anniversary of Boris Pasternak winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for Dr. Zhivago. Because the Nobel Prize committee seals its records for 50 years, we look forward to the records being […]

  1/22/09 • (Comments Off on The CIA and Dr. Zhivago)

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  Kazakhstan Imports Hottie

  Kazakhstan has made a deal with 19-year old Sesil Karatantcheva, the once up and coming tennis star who was ranked 35th in the world, and mentioned in the same breath as Ivanovic and Sharapova, before being banned for 2 years for doping. She was 16 at the time and became the first woman to be […]

  1/12/09 • (5)

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