Culture
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
2011-10-05 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
Resources
- Books for Kazakh Students
2011-11-06 - Is the Saks as Good?
2011-07-06 - Rehashing the Contador-Astana Feud
2011-06-23
- Books for Kazakh Students
Politics
- Image
2011-07-28 - Sub Rosa Endorsement
2011-07-26 - The Naked Truth
2011-06-12
- Image
News
- Raiding and Inspecting Religious Groups Begins
2011-11-28 - Peace Corps Leave Kazakhstan, but Why?
2011-11-19 - More Bombings
2011-11-02
- Raiding and Inspecting Religious Groups Begins
Fun
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - House Hunters Bishkek
2011-12-02 - Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
2011-10-05
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
Tourism
- Asian Games Torch
2011-01-12 - Wikitravel
2010-08-07 - ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy
2010-07-30
- Asian Games Torch
Life in KZ
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
2011-12-07 - Healthcare and the Private Sector
2011-11-30 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
Redbubble
Category archive for ‘Fun’ 
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Protein Kills the Colon
Bad news for meat lovers, which is to say the entire population of Kazakhstan. According to British researchers, protein-heavy diets cause colon cancer. and damage substances in the body that protect against tumors. Of course, scientists always go back and forth about what makes a good or bad diet, but it might not be a [...]
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Boycott the Vote Campaign Expands
In my earlier election wrap up post, I failed to mention any press covering the opposition’s campaign to get voters to boycott the vote. If there really was an 84% voter turnout, then the campaign clearly failed. However the message did reach one unexpected constituency: puppies.
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Heavy Weighs the Crown on Miss Asian Games
Kumis Bazarbayeva, who won the Miss Asian Winter Games pageant (a vital and important world event that I can’t believe I forgot to report on here), has a funky tiara on her head, designed by Aigul Kasimova. And there’s a contest sponsored by Pantene, the winner of which gets the tiara. If you’re interested, it [...]
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Wedding Rings in Kazakhstan
Recently, I’ve been going through my photos of Kazakhstan, organizing, editing, looking for duplicates and also looking for things I want photos of, but haven’t actually shot yet. Like for example, these giant Kazakh wedding rings: Actually when you see these rings in the museums, they are referred to as matchmaker rings. I assume that’s [...]
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Who Says Girls Can’t Throw | EurasiaNet.org
Who Says Girls Can’t Throw | EurasiaNet.org. Great photo of a girl in Almaty pelting a classmate with a big old snowball!
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Happy International Women’s Day
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The I Love KZ Pics
I randomly stumbled on the author of these I Love KZ heart icons that popped up on the Internet a few years ago. Erden Zikibay, a designer living in Washington, DC created them as part of a movement to put up anti-Borat propaganda on the web. Links to the variations are here in case you [...]
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Nothing But Nyet
from funnyism.com Stumbled on this the other day. Not much to do with Kazakhstan, I suppose but it’s a very clever shot. Who knew Lenin liked basketball?
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UFOs in North Kazakhstan
I haven’t seen anything, but apparently there was a mass UFO sighting. The News-Kazakhstan agency (Kaz-Tag) has video of a glowing ball moving about which would be more convincing if we could see anything else in the shot at all. A photo posted on the same site also shows a tiny white blur in the [...]
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Commentators
While everyone agrees that the Opening of the Asian Winter Games went very well, in the KazNet there’s a lot of talk about the commentators. I mentioned my discontents in this post, particularly the fact that they never stopped talking. But that is typical of Kazakhstani and even Russian and Ukrainian sports commentators, so while [...]
