Another Diplomatic Crime
Twenty years ago, a foreign representative’s SUV nearly collided with a limo of the Kazakh president, injuring a local KGB …
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Jan Sjöstedt in Kazakhstan, 1994
It was a privilege to me — the 16-year-old beginner at journalism — to prepare an interview with Jan Sjöstedt, …
“Tele2 Kazakhstan” Helps Russia Evade Sanctions
A mobile carrier, which up to 2019 was also owned by a Swedish telecommunications giant Tele2 AB, technically is the …
Truth Through Fiction and Artistry
The 80th anniversary of great Kazakh author Oralkhan Bokei (1943-1993) will be commemorated this September. Although he has been quite …
Chinese-Style Privacy Violations
As a rule, former republics of the Soviet Union have not been particularly good, when it comes to protection of …
The Big Almaty Ring Road in Action
Quite an important infrastructure project was inaugurated on June 16, 2023. The Big Almaty Ring Road (in Kazakh, Үлкен Алматы …
A Strange Case of Belligerent Ignorance
It is a Herculean task to compile global military ratings. No country would give you exact figures as for its …
A Russo-Chinese Proxy to Stay in Power
A snap presidential election in Kazakhstan has been scheduled on November 20, 2022 to guarantee the incumbent president Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev …
A pro-Russian Kazakh Tycoon Prevails at Wimbledon
Elena Rybakina won the Wimbledon trophy on July 9, 2022, becoming the first Kazakh tennis player to get the most …
A Ballet to Connect Antiquity with Modern Age
On June 25-26, 2022, a ballet Frescoes by outstanding Kazakh conductor and composer Timur Mynbayev is scheduled to be staged …
A City Twice Destroyed
A medieval city of Saray-Jük (Saraishyq, Сарайшық in Kazakh), which existed around X century-1580 on the territory of the present …
Bringing Prosperity to Kazakhstan
Among other things, two problems have besieged Kazakhstan from the time immemorial. First of all, insufficient water resources of the …
The Ungrateful Guests
The Korean diaspora in Kazakhstan has enjoyed a privileged status indeed. From the humble beginnings of an ethnic group, deported …
An Inept Researcher of Kazakh History
Martha Brill Olcott is a US scholar, whose book The Kazakhs (the second edition, 1995) is a widely known English-language …
An Ostensibly Discarded Wife
The president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, technically divorced his Khazar (aka Jewish) wife as he took the office. For more …
Twisted Ways of Khazars in Kazakhstan
True, we must condemn such criminals of Khazar ethnic origin, as Stalin’s henchman Phillip (Shaya Itskovich) Goloschekin, who was directly …
The Upgraded Masonic Capital
It is an open secret that the capital of Kazakhstan, Aqmola, has landmarks of masonic symbolism. One should read an …
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. “Rebuilding Russia”
This notorious essay by a Nobel Prize winner is little known in the West. Widely distributed in the Soviet Union, …
Whom a Rockefeller Befriended?
Conspiracy theories have been told about strong connections between the Soviet Union and the Rockefeller family. Take this one, for …
Nurtas Ondassynov — a Statesman and Lexicographer
Nurtas Ondassynov (1904-1989) was a prominent Kazakh politician who, as Prime Minister of Soviet Kazakhstan, oversaw significant infrastructure projects like the Mointy-Shu railway and Arys-Turkestan Canal. After retiring due to a clash with Khrushchev, he pursued Oriental studies, authored dictionaries, and advocated for female education. Despite a humble lifestyle, Ondassynov regretted his children not speaking Kazakh. He valued Kazakhstan’s cultural wisdom and was a proud patriot.