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  • 1 Dec is now First Pres Day. @…

    1 Dec is now First Pres Day. @EurasiaNet: Kazakhstan Fetes Its President on Independence Day http://t.co/GxlRgdp0”

    12/16/11 • (0)

  • Pretty if slightly propaganday…

    Pretty if slightly propaganday. Would be good for teachers. http://t.co/JVAVYxO5

    12/16/11 • (0)

  • Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway

    I finally found a nice photo gallery of the Almaty subway which opened the other day. I note that it looks a lot like the Moscow subway, with high ceilings and over-decorated walls. You half expect a crystal chandelier. That may be nice, but for this almost New Yorker, a subway is meant to be [...]

    12/07/11 • (0)

  • Cute @RFERLMultimedia: Sesame …

    Cute @RFERLMultimedia: Sesame Street launches in #Afghanistan Can you tell me how to get to Bagch-e-Simsim? http://t.co/BiZkUSfe

    12/05/11 • (0)

  • Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too

    Speaking of housing in Central Asia, I guess Occupy Toronto has been living in $20,000 yurts Before you laugh, yurts are insanely warm and comfortable, even the normal, handmade kind that only cost a few thousand. That’s the hipster/slum fashion side. Apparently, though yurts are also mingling with the upper crust, the occupyees, the 1%, [...]

    12/05/11 • (2)

  • Thank You

    Thank You

    Thank you anonymous buyer for buying so many My Yurt or Yours T-shirts. Some Central Asian head’s family is going to have a very good Christmas! I’m assuming whoever bought them reads this blog because there really aren’t that many Central Asian Internet portals around. I think this could be the hot new Christmas present [...]

    12/04/11 • (2)

  • House Hunters Bishkek

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETNRcAVOo6U Thanks to Joshua Foust for linking to this episode of House Hunters International in Bishkek. Or actually linking to a post by Mrs. Styer on watching herself on an episode of House Hunters International. I can’t believe that reality TV isn’t all real! No this isn’t about Kazakhstan but the apartments shown also represent [...]

    12/02/11 • (0)

  • Healthcare and the Private Sector

    Another post that’s been lounging in obscurity: Interesting report on healthcare reform in Kazakhstan. Specifically, a grad student from Kazakhstan did a survey of doctors on the decision of working in public or private sector. The result seems to be that doctors move from public to private when they fear the public sector is unstable [...]

    11/30/11 • (0)

  • NurOtan lists for MPs includes…

    NurOtan lists for MPs includes an awful lot of athletes and singers.

    11/29/11 • (0)

  • Raiding and Inspecting Religious Groups Begins

    So as the end of the year approaches, I’m looking at all the articles I bookmarked or starred on Google Reader and tweets I favorited and then never blogged on. I’m going to try to make up for that. So here’s one on the first victims of the new religion law: Alleged Extremist Materials Confiscated [...]

    11/28/11 • (3)