“We can’t keep silent when Russian skinheads kill Kazakhs”,
says activist of the “Bolashak”, Kazakh youth organization, presenting a new magazine at the press-conference.
“Bolashak” is a well-known youth organization in Kazakhstan. They often hold actions in support of the rights of youth and promote national ideas. Financial support from influential sources and comprehensible concept give them […]

Translation of Lena B-va’s post on the Russian version of our blog.
As police officers informed the journalists of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” newspaper, the body of Alexander Legkodimov, 26, better known among Almaty youth as DJ Zayaz, was found early in the morning of February 3 with the signs of violent death. The crime is […]

While the Kazahstani bloggers are getting ready to the BarCamp in Riga in February next year, a girl from the northern town of Temirtau is already paving her way to the popularity and hearts of the Latvians.
Jana Pidkuiko is the only artist from Kazakhstan on the international contest Hello Jurmala. This is a musical […]

PartyZan.kz  is a weblog fully devoted to night life and booming clubbing culture in Almaty and some other cities of Kazakhstan. Here, enthusiasts of electronic music, prominent DJs and promoters - make their outreach efforts, post photographs, tracks and announcements of the upcoming events.

This article was taken from the databank of one organization, which known for his grants to students. Applicants to the scholarship, according to apply conditions must contribute his opinions on the future of his native country and nation. So, read Kazakh student’s thoughts on the future of Kazakhstan. Is it so superficial? Your opinions […]

This is a translation of an excerpt from Ksenia’s post in Russian.
The Kazakhstani children have entered the new school year with ambitious novelties: more Internet access and 1,000 “interactive blackboards” – everything necessary for the new era education. However, the main problems occur in the very elementary basics.
Many pupils are starting the […]

…reads one of the slogans of the Socialist Resistance sprayed on houses in Taraz. Evidently, the young Socialist movement is still alive in places such as Taraz.
On top of these graffitis, several (well, three) of Taraz’s Socialist Resistance Movement members held a march to the presidential Nur-Otan party building a few days ago, holding […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is a translation of Vitaly’s post on state youth policy, published on Russian-language Kazakhstan neweurasia.
The law on State Youth Policy was adopted back in 2004, but up untill now it has not been fully realised.
A co-chair of the country-wide youth organisation “The Youth Choice” (informally, the organisation was a youth wing […]