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
Tag archive for ‘breaking news’
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Kazakhstan Hosting Alien Embassy! Not!
Is Kazakhstan building an embassy for aliens? If they do, will there be separate sections for the greys, the reptilians, the greens and the bugs? Why would they bother since everyone knows that there is already a UFO base in the Caspian Sea?
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Capital Moving
We’re all pretty sick of the long winters here in Astana. It’s cold and windy. And all the new construction is hard to get done on schedule with the bad weather, not to mention the difficulty of finding materials that will stand up to the weather. It’s no secret that it can go to -30C […]
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Death of a Soldier
A tragic story I came across on the death of a soldier from Aktobe. Apparently on March 4, Sergeant Marat Serkebayev, commander of novice platoon 97617, stationed in Almaty oblast, hit Private Azamat Orazbayev, killing him on the spot from failure of the heart and lungs.
According to Megapolis (which has the most detailed account of the incident), the commanding Lieutenant assembled the battalion for the usual end of the day debriefing when he was summoned by his commanding officer.
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Reservoirs Dogs
The Prime Minister is calling for better monitoring of dams and reservoirs in Kazakhstan, which makes sense given the recent tragedy. However the planned proposal, to have observation towers at each dam, seems a bit simplistic. The PM was quoted by Gazeta.kz as saying, “There should be people near each reservoir” One wonders what these […]
