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• Play-By-Play

  Should have mentioned this last night, but Chris Merriman, who admits to not being a huge football fan, has a bit of a play-by-play of the Kazakhstan-Croatia World Cup qualifying match. Kazakhstan was already out of contention to go to South Africa in 2010, but had Ukraine lost or tied Andorra last night, a Croatian […]

  10/14/09 • (Comments Off on Play-By-Play)

• Where the Beer Flows Cheaply

  Almost every article on Kazakhstan in the world press begins with some reference to Borat and then continues on to discuss whether the latest news enhances or diminishes the reputation of Kazakhstan. But here is a piece of news that can be taken either way. I call it a piece of news, but in fact […]

  9/05/09 • (Comments Off on Where the Beer Flows Cheaply)

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  Another Library?

  Registan is reporting that they are building a national library in Astana. We already have a Presidential Library and an Academic Library, both of which are very good as well as the National Archive. So what role will the National Library play? Besides being another futuristic funky looking building? Or boosting the construction industry? From […]

  8/27/09 • (Comments Off on Another Library?)

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  Astana Day

  Haven’t been posting lately as I have been on summer break. Look forward to a lot of travelogue posts about my adventures in Big Almaty Lake, Korgalzhino, Burabay, and Aktau. However my vacation began with horses and dzhigits. A few of my favorite shots of the Astana Day celebrations, one of my favorite holidays because […]

  7/29/09 • (1)

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  More Shameless Self-Promotion

  Due to popular request, I redesigned Dombro Hero. People who had bought the T-shirt asked the design to be moved up higher and the wording to be bigger. Once I did that, I thought it looked better a little more square, so I rotated the dombro and moved it to the other side. The Original […]

  7/10/09 • (Comments Off on More Shameless Self-Promotion)

• Astana Day Schedule

  Finally tracked down the Schedule of Events for Astana Day in English. My biggest disappointment is that it looks like they have replaced the Kazakh horse sports with a show jumping competition. Seriously, I wait all year to go to the Hippodrome and see the kokpar, the races and of course the kyz kui and […]

  7/01/09 • (Comments Off on Astana Day Schedule)

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  Pics of Astana

  Some more photos of Astana on my redbubble. So far my best seller is Dombra Hero but I’m proud of a lot of my pics. So check them out and if you like them, buy a print. The quality is really good and yes, they do deliver to Kazakshtan (as well as anywhere else in […]

  6/25/09 • (Comments Off on Pics of Astana)

• Plagarism in the US

  I wrote earlier about essay mills in Kazakhstan, where people write papers for students. While it is widely believed that former Soviet countries are more prone to cheating and corruption than Western nations, I found this interesting video tour of a US essay mill website from the Chronicle of Higher Education. So it’s not just […]

  5/13/09 • (Comments Off on Plagarism in the US)

• Nur Media is On the Air

  Following up on the report that the leading party in Kazakhstan, Nur Otan might get a media outlet, it turns out that they have. Rauan Media Group includes Television channel Astana, RVS radio, NS radio NS, and the newspapers Turkestan, Izvestiya-Kazakhstan, Nur-Astana, Kiter and Aiken, all of them previously government-owned media outlets. It is now […]

  2/02/09 • (Comments Off on Nur Media is On the Air)

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  ALZHIR

  ALZHIR was the Akmola Labour Camp for Wives of Political Dissidents during Soviet times. Shockingly, not only “traitors to the motherland” but also their families were often arrested and sentenced to camps–-separate camps of course. Now on the site of this camp, just outside Astana, is a nice little museum and a memorial. The museum […]

  2/02/09 • (2)

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