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Tag archive for ‘Kazakhstan’

• Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway

  I finally found a nice photo gallery of the Almaty subway which opened the other day. I note that it looks a lot like the Moscow subway, with high ceilings and over-decorated walls. You half expect a crystal chandelier. That may be nice, but for this almost New Yorker, a subway is meant to be […]

  12/07/11 • (Comments Off on Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway)

• Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?

  Yet another story about Kazakhstan and marijuana in only a few weeks. This little teaser for a documentary to be shown today on Australian TV implies that THC first evolved in Kazakhstan. Off-hand it seems to me that would be a much bigger tourist draw than apples OR wolves…. Plus, the tourists you would attract […]

  10/05/11 • (3)

• Elections Media Round Up

  The polls are closing in Kazakhstan’s snap Presidential election. According to Usen Zhetenov of the Central Election Committee voter turnout was around 84% [RU], compared to 74% in 2005 when Nazarbayev won with 91% of the votes. According to Kairat Sazhanov, the Central Election Committee representative in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, turnout abroad was […]

  4/03/11 • (Comments Off on Elections Media Round Up)

• What Americans Notice About Life in KZ

  A Peace Corps volunteer has a series of great posts on cultural tidbits in Kazakhstan, which really come down to what Americans find interesting or different about habits and life in Kazakhstan. This one cites the habit of wrapping babies up in so many layers they can’t move. I call them “potato sacks” because the […]

  3/28/11 • (1)

• Not Much Worse

  4-0. That was the final score of Germany vs. Kazakhstan Saturday. 3 in the first half, including one in the first four minutes and one in the last minute of the first half. In the second half, Germany relaxed and just tried to keep the Kazakhstan side scoreless, although Klose scored one more. As Sports.kz […]

  3/27/11 • (Comments Off on Not Much Worse)

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  Worse Than 3-0?

  Saturday is the big game. Kazakhstan and Germany for the World Cup qualifiers. It’s probably not much of a surprise that the ESPN Preview doesn’t look good for Kazakhstan. So far Kazakhstan hasn’t a won a game in their group (Germany, Austria, Turkey, Belgium and Azerbaijan) and Germany hasn’t lost a game. I was surprised […]

  3/25/11 • (Comments Off on Worse Than 3-0?)

• Healthcare in Kazakhstan

  Now I’ve got my mind on living in Kazakhstan, one issue that people contact me about quite a bit is healthcare and medicine in Kazakhstan. What is it like, how much does it cost, how does it work? First of all, healthcare is a lot cheaper in Kazakhstan than it is in the US. Visiting […]

  3/24/11 • (5)

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  Kazakhstani Artist Nelly Bube

  You never hear a lot about Kazakhstani artists outside of Kazakhstan. There’s a handful of fashion designers that do some international shows and the writer Abai has been heard of throughout the Soviet Union. Even a few orchestras and traditional Kazakh musicians seem to make headlines in other countries occasionally. But painters and sculptors tend […]

  3/16/11 • (1)

• Peace Corps in Kazakhstan in the late 90s

  An interesting video of a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served from 1997-1999 in Kazakhstan, as the fifth “class” of Peace Corps volunteers in Kazakhstan. The most interesting part I thought was about the views that Kazakhstani had about Americans at the time. A lot of this has changed now with time, but assuming that […]

  2/06/11 • (Comments Off on Peace Corps in Kazakhstan in the late 90s)

• 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)