Lately the local newspapers started publishing articles on the ethnic emigrants - especially Russians and Germans - who are coming back to Kazakhstan after failing to find a proper living standards in the blessed lands of ancestors.

In particular, popular newspapers like “Arguments and Facts” weekly post stories of the people who are  complaining about 1) bad attitude to the newcomers from the former Soviet Union, 2)  absence of ways for self-develpment, 3) impossibility to find decent job according to the qualification they used to have in Kazakhstan, 4) and finally, that in Kazakhstan t is possible to make more money than in Germany.

All of these might be true; moreover, the German government reported last year that 1.500 Germans returned to Kazakhstan in 2006. However, the wave of such publications seem more like a “state order” placed in the media outlets in order to mitigate the “crisis moods” in the masses and reinforce the image of Kazakhstan - in minds of the Kazakhstanis - as a stable and promising place to live.