KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Timur Bekmambetov’

  • Kazakh-Land?

    Thanks to Micheal Hancock at Registan for drawing my attention to this website claiming to advertise a Kazakh-style resort/theme park in California. As the article in Registan points out, the English on the website is highly suspicious, particularly the guest book which supposedly lists comments from Americans who have been to the park. For example, […]

  • Movie Festival

    Movie Festival

    Beginning June 27th for Astana Day, Astana will be hosting an international action film festival. Timur Bekmambetov is one of the organizers and apparently Mike Tyson, Dolph Lundgren and Milla Jovovich are coming to Astana. They’re showing a lot of interesting films. In particular, I’m looking forward to seeing Shanghai, Tyson, Sukiyaki Western Django, The […]

  • Ask Not What the World Has Done for Kazakhstan

    But what Kazakhstan has done for the world. My wife bought the latest issue of Cosmopolitan and I was amused by a poll asking what is the best thing that Kazakhstan has given to the world. No idea if the answers were provided by Cosmo or if people could write in whatever they wanted but […]