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• Oh, CNN

  Who knew CNN could be bought? I guess those “Eye on…” Specials are sponsored by the governments that they feature. Now when the government of Kazakhstan pays for advertising space in the New York Times, as they are wont to do, it is clearly marked as a paid advertisement, although I don’ t think it […]

  7/21/12 • (Comments Off on Oh, CNN)

• Drink Too Much and You Will Be Invaded

  Not sure what to make of this video by Niyazbekov Productions, which apparently did those all pervasive Alga Kazakhstan commercials during the Asian Games, among other things. First of all, it’s certainly one of the best pieces of work I’ve seen done in Kazakhstan. The CGI, the quality, the directing and camera angles are extremely […]

  8/03/11 • (3)

• Kazakhstan Students Support Japan

  A nice song done by

  4/10/11 • (Comments Off on Kazakhstan Students Support Japan)

• Peace in Kygryzstan

  A PSA being run on CNN and other international channels. It’s in Russian but basically the people are holding signs showing their various ethnicities. And they are saying things like, “My children were born here” and “I develop science in Kyrgyzstan.” It’s a nice message and though I gather it’s designed more to prevent the […]

  6/23/10 • (Comments Off on Peace in Kygryzstan)

• We Are Amused

  By Lucky21842, via Chris. As the comments on his YouTube video page say, this is done tongue-in-cheek!

  10/22/09 • (Comments Off on We Are Amused)