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 ‘funny’
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Useful Russian for English Football Fans
Something a dear friend send me that’s going around the Russian Internets 20 phrases in Russian That Will be of Use to English Football Fans during the Champion League Finals in Moscow. It appears to have originated with Prosports a popular Russian sports journal, but I can’t find it linked there. It’s very funny and […]
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Culture Shock Redux
Having been away in the US for the holidays and returning to Kazakhstan, I feel like I am going through a renewed wave of culture shock. It’s not that everything is unfamiliar, it’s that certain things that I had gotten used to are newly irritating. There are a number of every day experiences that certainly […]
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Kazakh Humour
As Kazakhstan Neweurasia points out in an article on humor in Kazakhstan, one popular and rather clever area of humor is finding pseudo-Kazakh roots in foreign words. I suppose one reason I love these jokes so much is that it acts as a welcome antidote to bad history that relies on linguistic coincidences. One joke […]
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Older Post: Foreign Lovers
As work is piling up on me a bit, I thought I would post some things I wrote a while back. This one is dated only by it’s reference to an article on Neweurasia which is now ancient, but I think the topic—the foreign fiancee or spouse—is still relevant and interesting. I highly recommend Aiman’s […]
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On the lighter side
I finally saw the Borat movie–a pirate edition was handed to me in a smoky cafe, in plain white paper, the discs enscribed “We <3 Kazakhstan” like it was samizdat in Soviet times. So no money from the Kazakhstan economy went to Mr. Cohen from me, unlike some other non-patriots who pushed Borat to number […]
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Amateur Anthropology in an Elevator
It is fascinating to watch the choices people make and how they frame those choices. So there is a very small elevator in our building (there are also larger elevators, mind). It can hold maybe 3 people–there’s an alarm that buzzes when the weight limit is surpassed which is surprisingly frequently. My building has seven […]
