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  Khan Shatyr

  Finally made it to Khan Shatyr, which opened two weeks during the Astana Day festivities. Overall, I was disappointed that it is mainly another shopping mall. We have so many shopping malls now in Astana, and all of them are right next to each other. I really don’t see the point of having Norman Foster […]

  7/15/10 • (3)

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  Happy Astana Day

  Dzhigitkovka or perhaps Kyzkovka? at the Central Park in Astana on the 6th of July, which is both Astana Day and the birthday of Nursultan Nazarybayev.

  7/07/10 • (Comments Off on Happy Astana Day)

• Not So Royal Behaviour

  ChrisM has a post up on the Royal Betting Sports Bar in King’s Hotel in Astana. Worth reading if you want to avoid the bait-and-switch/squeeze the foreigners scams that some cafes and restaurants put up here.

  6/29/10 • (Comments Off on Not So Royal Behaviour)

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  Movie Festival

  Beginning June 27th for Astana Day, Astana will be hosting an international action film festival. Timur Bekmambetov is one of the organizers and apparently Mike Tyson, Dolph Lundgren and Milla Jovovich are coming to Astana. They’re showing a lot of interesting films. In particular, I’m looking forward to seeing Shanghai, Tyson, Sukiyaki Western Django, The […]

  6/17/10 • (Comments Off on Movie Festival)

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  Mashina Vremeni

  We were lucky enough to score tickets to the Mashina Vremeni concert in Astana on Thursday. Mashina Vremeni is one of the classic Russian rock bands. The concert tour was titled “We are 40 Years Old” but they pointed out that the tour started last year so actually they are 41 years old. I don’t […]

  5/16/10 • (3)

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  Astana Racer Works And I’m Glad it Does

  Astana Racer works and I’m glad it does. I defamed the creators of Astana Racer. After Chris Merriman, who knows a lot more about computers than I ever will, commented about video drivers, I decided that I better double check even though Windows said there was no new driver. As it turns out, ATI video […]

  5/14/10 • (3)

• The 9th of May and the Asian Front

  Kazakhnomad has an interesting post up on the story of a Kazakh veteran who fought on the Asian front. I was not aware that the USSR fought in the Pacific, but I stand corrected. The war against Germany gets a lot more attention here whereas in the US both the European and Pacific front are […]

  5/11/10 • (Comments Off on The 9th of May and the Asian Front)

• How to Write About Kazakhstan

  I am taking up a gauntlet here in response to a great post on Registan.net about How to Write About Afghanistan. First, mention Borat. If the article is about some problem or something that seems funny then refer to Kazakhstan as “Boratland”, “the home of Borat”, or “Boratistan”. Otherwise, if the article is about say […]

  5/02/10 • (2)

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  .001% of the Internet Thinks My Site is Cool

  I finally broke 100,000 on my Alex Rank! Which was a small personal goal, albeit fairly meaningless in the long run. But it was something I was aiming for. Taking this time to look at my most popular posts, I am amazed to see that Fut-Fut-Fut-freestailo is the most popular post of all time on […]

  4/27/10 • (1)

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  Astana Racer Still Doesn’t Work But I Wish It Did

  Just a quick update about Astana Racer. The creators have released a patch that solves some of the problems people were having with the game, which you can download here. You also apparently have to edit the file “config.cfg” and change the variable “use_video_player” from true to false. This file is located in Program Files/Astana […]

  4/22/10 • (3)

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