Below is a translated post by Nurgeldy from the Russian-language blog.
A monument to Charlie Chaplin has appeared in [the northern city of] Kostanai last week. As reported, it is the 12th in the world. The very fact of a sculpture to the cinematographe idol being installed in our city is quite weird for […]
A horse for a nomad was always more than just a cattle. It was a food, a transport and a status thing. There are horses in the monuments of Astana too.
For example, on the riverside there is a monument to Kenesary Khan, or as locals say, a monument to the Horse of Kenesary Khan:
Mantrovkz posts a news report by Interfax in his blog [ru], where it is said about possible landing of UFO in the [northern] Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan.
The eyewitness, who reported on the fall of an unidentified glowing object to the regional Department of Emergency Situations, was nobody else but personally a head of […]
Mashenzia, a blogger and an Almaty-based reporter of the international news service, tells a funny story that has happened to her lately in Astana, the capital city. It’s amazing how people that live in Old Town of Astana - the Soviet-type provincial cityscape - sometimes do not have any idea of what is happening […]
Translation of Zhanara’s post on the Russian language blog
Here is a photo of an advertising banner in Astana. It’s insane how the designers could make such a stupid and blatant mistake - to write KAHAHSTAN instead of Kazakhstan. The name of the country should be sacred, shouldn’t it? The banner is placed right across […]
The trend of growing personality cult has been recently supported by B.Tlukhan, a Member of Parliament. He said that considers the president a symbol of the country that cannot be smeared, and added: “For me Nazarbayev is a man, chosen by God”. The whole fuss is about publication of the president’s photo in one of […]
This post is part of neweurasia’s cross-blog survey devoted to humor in Central Asia
The humor here is rooted deep in the centuries when Kazakhs were nomads. Despite a rather tragic history, Kazakh folklore is stuffed with easy-going characters playfully coming out of troubles with smile on a face, such as Aldar Kose, Zhirenshe and […]
Another oddity has happened recently with the Kazakhstani leadership that strives for two mutually contradicting things – international recognition and preservation of its grip on power. “We have peculiar democracy, so, please, don’t preach us. Donn’t forget that we abandoned nuclear weapons and conduct conferences of inter-religious tolerance!” – such is the logic.
The […]
If after 1990, Almaty was a destination for B-list pop-musicians, the scene looks totally different in 2007. In 1998, anyone could see East 17 or Haddaway on a stadium - in 2007, “50 cent” and Craig David visit Almaty to perform on private parties only. The tickets for the parties are not sold - […]
