“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 …
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The Kazakh Van Gogh
There is a retired painter of the Kazakh ethnic origin in a Russian city of Tolyatti. Born in 1946, Yelubai …
The World’s Oldest Political Prisoner
My Facebook friend Polat Dzhamalov is, probably, the oldest political prisoner in the world. This Russian theoretical physicist of Kazakh …
Russia’s High-Tech Racism
The Skolkovo Innovation Center near Moscow aims to replicate Silicon Valley, intending to create jobs and housing for 50,000 people by 2020. Despite its goals for scientific advancement, the center faces criticism for a delivery service, Dostavista, displaying racial discrimination. This reflects ongoing xenophobia in Russia, despite its legal framework for equality.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. “Rebuilding Russia”
This notorious essay by a Nobel Prize winner is little known in the West. Widely distributed in the Soviet Union, …
Troubled Waters of Transborder Rivers
The problem of water supply has been an Achilles heel of Kazakhstan. True, this country has rich natural resources, vast territory, and well-educated population. But, its water supply is
deficient. A May 9, 2008, publication at www.struanstevenson.com/media/article/china_is_depriving_kazakhstan_of_water says that «during the last few
years, the volume of water supply has been diminishing because of its increased use by neighbouring countries. The level of water supply in Kazakhstan is currently amongst the lowest in Central
Asia”. Moreover, major Kazakh rivers, like Irtysh, Ili and Ural, have their headwaters abroad. Unfavorable geographical …
Some Critical Notes on “THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”
This magnificent contribution to political science requires critical review, because its wide scope of problems raised and the global distribution of The Clash of
Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington makes the book a powerful piece of ideology. Its every paragraph could influence the way of thinking around the world. Therefore, one should pay closer
attention to mistakes, which the author, willingly or unwillingly, made in the edition, published by The Free Press in 2002.
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