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• Gagarin’s Baikonur

  There’s a really nice photo essay of Baikonur by Anton Verstakov up, with great shots of the house where Gagarin stayed and even his bedroom among other things. It really is amazing how desolate Baikonur looks. Verstakov notes that the cosmodrome reminds him of Soviet times: For me it is a sort of a flashback, […]

  4/20/11 • (Comments Off on Gagarin’s Baikonur)

• Love in the USSR

  Great post by a Peace Corps Volunteer about how her host grandmother and grandfather fell in love. In case you wondered about love and romance among the Soviets.

  3/23/11 • (Comments Off on Love in the USSR)

• Manners

  Thanks to Kazakhnomad who posted on a story by a an expat working in Almaty about bullying on the toboggan trail. Go read her story yourself, but basically she was annoyed by kids who cut in line for the tobbagan trail at Ak Bulak and, what is more, being encouraged by their mother to cut […]

  3/17/11 • (1)

• Survey of Expats About Life in Kazakhstan

  Kazakhnomad has yet another interesting series of posts up on a survey she did of expats living in Kazakhstan. If you start from that post and go forward in time, you’ll be able to see all the questions and results. I thought it might be fun to answer the questions myself as well, or at […]

  12/29/10 • (12)

• The President’s Speech at Nazarbayev University

  Besides the appeal to scientists to to stop the effects of aging, which made world news, Nazarbayev did have other things to say in his speech to students at Nazarbayev University last week. Kazakhnomad has some of her notes up and it’s worth going through. I think the admissions that Kazakhstan is behind in the […]

  12/21/10 • (2)

• Kazakh-Land?

  Thanks to Micheal Hancock at Registan for drawing my attention to this website claiming to advertise a Kazakh-style resort/theme park in California. As the article in Registan points out, the English on the website is highly suspicious, particularly the guest book which supposedly lists comments from Americans who have been to the park. For example, […]

  11/09/10 • (6)

• Education System in Kazakhstan

  Another nice post I picked up from the Peace Corps Volunteers in Kazakhstan blog feed. This one is an end of summer post, but I thought the bit on how directors of colleges see their teachers as a workforce was interesting. One of the big problems I was loath to face was the situation at […]

  10/21/10 • (1)

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  Google Transparency

  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 […]

  9/22/10 • (2)

• Teachers in Kazakhstan

  Kazakhnomad has a series of interesting pieces up on teaching and teachers in Kazakhstan. She did a survey of students, teachers and people who have studied abroad on their opinions about how education should be and also had some teachers write essays about why they are teachers and how they can help their country. If […]

  9/11/10 • (6)

• ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy

  I put up a post on ALZHIR, a museum at the site of a labor camp for women near Astana. I definitely would put it on my list of things for people to do around Astana. I did notice two posts about ALZHIR from Kazakh Nomad after her trip on the 4th of July: Why […]

  7/30/10 • (Comments Off on ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy)

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