Translated post by Adam from the Russian-language blog.
Almaty is going to become a new international tourist hotspot, says Wall Street Journal. It has been listed by the tourist business professionals among such dream destinations as Vietnam, San-Paulo, the Caribbeans and Seychelles, Mauritius and Abu-Dhabi. Kazakhstan, known on the West as one of the […]

Recently I went to visit the Soros Center for Contemporary Art and witnessed the beginning of the destruction of this art community center on Tulebaev Street. They were already putting up the synonymous metal walls to hide the destruction.
The Soros Center for Contemporary Art has been housed in this humble constructivist building for almost […]

A positive and progressive step was taken towards implementing a sustainable approach to urban planning in Kazakhstan recently.
The administration of Shymkent has reached out to the community of artists and intellectuals to integrate their ideas into the process of building a new city. They organized a round table discussion involving twenty […]

Aminatou Echard is an experimental video and film maker and installation artist who lives in Paris. She is currently working on a movie about her trip to Kyrgyzstan and on a new project in Kazakhstan. I met Aminatou last fall at the end of her three-month trip through Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. I was […]

Kazakhstan is emerging as a new hot backpacker destinations and place to spend your gap year, according to a study by Travellers Connected. Surprise surprise, Sacha Baron Cohen is the reason the country has been put on the map of those keen to explore the world after finishing school:
TravellersConnected founder, Alastair Banks, said: “It’s […]