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 ‘work’
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Urgent Help Wanted
Came across the site Mojazarplata.kz [MySalary][RU]. The site is only in Russian so it’s not much use to expats but it seems like an interesting resource for tracking salaries, jobs in demand and other work trends. There’s a few surveys you can fill out, including one on whether or not your work is violating labor […]
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Disabled People Suffer
There was a sad article the other day in Eurasianet about problems faced by disabled in Kyrgyzstan. I post it here because unfortunately many of the same problems exist in Kazakhstan. After doing a bit of research on the subject, I see there’s still a lot of work to be done to integrate disabled people […]
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What Exactly is Banned?
According to an article by Interfax, wearing the hijab in Kazakhstan schools is forbidden. Apparently a student in Taraz wanted to wear one and the school administration did not allow her to, citing rules regarding the school uniform and the Taraz city education department supported this decision. Interestingly, apparently the Minster of Justice wrote on […]
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Child Labor is Free Labor
Following up on Patrick Frost’s article on Child Labor in Central Asia at Central Asia, I have a couple of anecdotes that I have been collecting on child labor in Kazakhstan. One tradition that I gather is a carry-over from Soviet times is the Subbotnik where people volunteer their time on Saturdays to do community […]
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Foreign Firms Hate Kazakhs
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, there are up to 245 cases of foreign firms discriminating against Kazakhstan citizens. “Discrimination against Kazakh citizens can be observed both at the stage of signing individual labour contracts and during the entire employment process – while exercising the right to safe working conditions, the right to conclude a […]
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More Turkish-Kazakh Violence
According to Turkish news sources, a group of 30 masked men in Almaty attacked 40 Turkish workers Thursday night. The workers were employees of the Turkish company B.N.N. Pegasus (which I assume is a construction company since it has a “camp”, but honestly I can’t find anything about this company written in English) and staying […]
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Of Salons and Socialism
I went to get my haircut this weekend at, I might note, a fairly expensive (but conveniently located) salon. There was a sign on the door that said “Veterans of the Great Patriotic War will get free haircuts, and pensioners get discounted haircuts on Tuesday and Thursday from 10am – 2pm” We asked about this […]
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Customer Service! EDITED 19.10.06
From time to time, I want to post about life here in the eyes of the American and share some anecdotes or strange situations that I run into. I am fully aware that I am the outsider here with my biases, and my intent isn’t to shame Kazakhstan or degrade Kazakhs. In fact, I would […]
