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• Happy Ramadan, whether you fast or not

  Happy Ramadan or Ramazan or whatever you call it. Whether you fast or not, a funny Ramadan commercial video.

  8/11/10 • (0)

• Guess Who’s Back? Back Again?

  Believe it or not, there’s going to be another film about Borat. Without the participation of Sascha Baron Cohen however. Kazakh director, Erkin Rakishev is planning a movie called My Brother, Borat which is apparently about what happens when an American fan of Borat’s comes to Kazakhstan and finds out that it is a developed [...]

  8/10/10 • (4)

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  65 Year Old Acrobat

  Another shot of Astana Day. In the park, a group of Uzbeks set up a little circus which is my second favorite part of Astana Day. They’re usually there at other times over the summer too, so you may not have missed them. Pretty good for traveling carnival workers. They make their money by asking [...]

  7/11/10 • (0)

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  Riding Back Saddle

  Another shot from this year’s celebration of Astana Day. This trick riding looks impressive but is also an important set of skills in battle and hunting. From this position, the rider can avoid enemy arrows or swords and also lean back far enough to pick up a fallen colleague or lost weapon from the ground [...]

  7/09/10 • (0)

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  Happy Astana Day

  Dzhigitkovka or perhaps Kyzkovka? at the Central Park in Astana on the 6th of July, which is both Astana Day and the birthday of Nursultan Nazarybayev.

  7/07/10 • (0)

• The Pagans Are Coming

  The World Forum of Spiritual Culture, which I assume is not to confused with the Congress of World Religions, has inviteda pagan representative for the first time. Patrick McCollum, who is director chaplaincy at Cherry Hill Seminary, is a follower of Wicca, a pagan nature-based religion, and the first Wiccan chaplain to be recognized by [...]

  6/30/10 • (0)

• Peace in Kygryzstan

  A PSA being run on CNN and other international channels. It’s in Russian but basically the people are holding signs showing their various ethnicities. And they are saying things like, “My children were born here” and “I develop science in Kyrgyzstan.” It’s a nice message and though I gather it’s designed more to prevent the [...]

  6/23/10 • (0)

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  Movie Festival

  Beginning June 27th for Astana Day, Astana will be hosting an international action film festival. Timur Bekmambetov is one of the organizers and apparently Mike Tyson, Dolph Lundgren and Milla Jovovich are coming to Astana. They’re showing a lot of interesting films. In particular, I’m looking forward to seeing Shanghai, Tyson, Sukiyaki Western Django, The [...]

  6/17/10 • (0)

• Freestailo Lives

  Thanks to J’s comment on an earlier post for this update on who freestailo is: According to this YouTube Video: His name is Ernar Kaldynov, was born in Karoi, small village in Western Kazakhstan. in 2007 he took part as singer with dombra(Kazakh National Instrument) in SuperStar.KZ show (Kazakh version of American Idol), but did [...]

  5/22/10 • (2)

• I’m Smelling Your Soul

  Put this post on the list of interesting aspects of Kazakh culture I’ve meant to post about but never gotten around to. I remember when I first arrived in Kazakhstan being very surprised to occasionally see adults sniffing their children. I remember seeing a grandfather lean down to his 5 year-old grandson put his nose [...]

  5/21/10 • (2)

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