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Tag archive for ‘Chris Merriman’

• Unrest

  Chris Merriman has a good summary of recent events in Kazakhstan including the two people who set themselves on fire in public buildings, the car bomb, and now the killing of two policeman in Aktobe. On the latter, there’s a little more information out now. According to Azattyq (RFE/RL), around midnight on June 30th a […]

  7/04/11 • (Comments Off on Unrest)

• Gani Kasymov 10 Years Ago

  Much as I don’t want to disparage people from voting for any candidate on Sunday, this interview with Gani Kasymov of the Patriot’s Party from 1999, when he was also running for President on KTK is pretty amusing. While Eurasianet hits a lot of the highlights, they missed the moment at 2:28 when the journalist […]

  4/01/11 • (Comments Off on Gani Kasymov 10 Years Ago)

• Tomato

  Chris Merriman has up a link to a great resource: Tomato, which is a Kazakhstan-based review site for businesses. A little like Yelp for Kazakhstan, Pomidor (which means “tomato” in Russian) lets people put up reviews and stories of their experiences at different businesses in Kazakhstan. It needs a little more work–be nice to have […]

  1/26/11 • (2)

• First Hand Account from Osh

  Chris Merriman has an interesting Osh eye witness account by an NGO volunteer who had been living in South Kyrgyzstan. If this isn’t enough a teaser, nothing is: I just had the most terrifying experience of my life. I’m going to let you know so you can get a small picture of what it is […]

  6/15/10 • (Comments Off on First Hand Account from Osh)

• Lazy or Brave

  One of Chris Merriman’s Suggestions for Kazakhstan is on seat belts and making kids at least wear seat belts in the back seat as well. This has led me to a question that has bothered me since I came to Kazakhstan. To the Western eye, people in Kazakhstan are remarkably unconcerned with safety. People don’t […]

  4/28/10 • (1)