KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘prices’

  • Kazakhstan Wheat is the Most Expensive in the World

    According to Kazakh-Zerno, an analytical site, wheat from Kazakhstan rose to US$329.8 a tonne on 10 March, making it the most expensive wheat in the country. How much this is linked to Russia’s wheat export ban, I don’t know. The article ends by asking, “Should we be proud of this or what?” Now I’m no […]

  • The Haves and the Have Nots

    I wrote a bit earlier about prices of meat and food products in Kazakhstan. However, a lot of less necessary products are already more expensive in Kazakhstan than in the US, and getting more expensive. Perhaps the biggest problem is that although things have improved slightly, there are still two classes of goods in Kazakhstan, […]