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• Trailer to Babushkas

  Found the trailer to the film I mentioned earlier: If you haven’t checked the comments to that post, Z. did a bit of researching and found out that the filmmakers are hoping to get funding and put the film up online.

  4/23/11 • (0)

• Baikonur a Russian Company?

  Speaking of Baikonur, there’s an interesting proposal on the table to make the space station a joint-stock company with Russia holding 70% of the shares. Anatoly Perminov, head of Roscosmos, made the proposal recently and Talgat Musabayev, head of KazCosmos and well-known Kazakh astronaut, has said they will consider it. As I reported earlier, Russia [...]

  4/21/11 • (0)

• Gagarin’s Baikonur

  There’s a really nice photo essay of Baikonur by Anton Verstakov up, with great shots of the house where Gagarin stayed and even his bedroom among other things. It really is amazing how desolate Baikonur looks. Verstakov notes that the cosmodrome reminds him of Soviet times: For me it is a sort of a flashback, [...]

  4/20/11 • (0)

• Balkhash Regatta?

  Apparently so You can even download the Balkhash Regatta Anthem!

  4/18/11 • (0)

• Industry Analysis: Prostitution in Kazakhstan

  No idea who Ilya Blogger is, but he seems to know a lot about the prostitution market in Almaty [RU]. Apparently, the early years of thee recession may have been good for prostitutes because the middle-management office and bank workers, who make up the main market for prostitutes, were working harder and just didn’t have [...]

  4/12/11 • (0)

• GPS in Kazakhstan

  I was playing around with my iPod the other day (I have a humble little iPod touch instead of the $1000 iPhones and iPads. I will wait til I move back to the US to buy something fancier) and decided to search the App store for “Kazakhstan”. There’s not a lot of apps out there [...]

  4/07/11 • (0)

• The Final Five

  Following up on this post about what Americans notice about life in Kazakhstan, Hilary has posted the top 5 cultural tidbits with links to her earlier posts. This final five post hits on some really tricky ones, probably the ones that really show the difference in mentality between Americans and Kazakhs. It is interesting to [...]

  4/07/11 • (1)

• Desktop Computers

  A quick addendum to this post on computer stores and tech service; I have never owned desktop computers in Kazakhstan, only laptops. So while I have had bad service here, I am told that knowledge of laptops has had a lag here. Especially if your computer is not one of the brands widely sold in [...]

  4/07/11 • (0)

• Handmade Computers

  As other people smarter in technology than I have noted, computer shops in Astana leave much to be desired. IT and tech service people tend to be better than other services here, mainly I suspect because you do have to actually know something to be an IT person. And good IT people (or any other [...]

  4/05/11 • (1)

• Museum to Nazarbayev

  In his home village of Chemolgan in Almaty oblast, there is a museum dedicated to Nursultan Nazarbayev, set up in the same school where he once studied. The BBC has a short video taking you inside this shrine to the first president, which includes photos of him through life and objects decorated with his face [...]

  4/04/11 • (0)

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