http://www.kzblog.net/2006/10/10/googling-kazakhstan/ An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:30:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kzblog.net/2006/10/10/googling-kazakhstan/comment-page-1/#comment-2069 Commemorative Tenge | KZBlog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:05:02 +0000 http://www.kzblog.net/1970/01/01/googling-kazakhstan/#comment-2069 [...] As it turns out, what really happened is that the National Bank has issued a commemorative 1000-tenge bill in honor of Kazakhstan’s 2010 chairmanship of the OSCE. So stop panicking, there won’t be any replacements. This is just a special issue. 10 million bills will be printed and I got my first one today. It’s very pretty. Looks nothing like the usual 1000 tenge bill. [...] [...] As it turns out, what really happened is that the National Bank has issued a commemorative 1000-tenge bill in honor of Kazakhstan’s 2010 chairmanship of the OSCE. So stop panicking, there won’t be any replacements. This is just a special issue. 10 million bills will be printed and I got my first one today. It’s very pretty. Looks nothing like the usual 1000 tenge bill. [...]

]]> http://www.kzblog.net/2006/10/10/googling-kazakhstan/comment-page-1/#comment-1998 Kazakhsha | KZBlog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:11:04 +0000 http://www.kzblog.net/1970/01/01/googling-kazakhstan/#comment-1998 [...] test, scrapped out of fear it would isolate non-Kazakhs. There was also the recent scandal over the new tenge, on which the word Bank was misspelled in Kazakh, which led many to wonder, “Who are these [...] [...] test, scrapped out of fear it would isolate non-Kazakhs. There was also the recent scandal over the new tenge, on which the word Bank was misspelled in Kazakh, which led many to wonder, “Who are these [...]

]]> http://www.kzblog.net/2006/10/10/googling-kazakhstan/comment-page-1/#comment-9 New Tenge: Update | KZBlog Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:40:41 +0000 http://www.kzblog.net/1970/01/01/googling-kazakhstan/#comment-9 [...] the story about the misprinted tenge got picked up by Reuters, then MSNBC, and now every blog has a story about the silly Kazakhs who [...]<!-- X-spaminator-strike: whitelist, -3 --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: bad referer - spambot?, 3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: crap flooding, 3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> [...] the story about the misprinted tenge got picked up by Reuters, then MSNBC, and now every blog has a story about the silly Kazakhs who [...]

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