I often hear about the so-called Western propaganda. Say, the West undermines our traditional foundations, and wants to destroy our way of life.
And sometimes I myself feel like such a “bomber”.
I have one friend from a neighboring republic. It is a beautiful country …
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– Dad, what’s going on in Ukraine?
– Since when did you become interested in politics?
– Everywhere, on all channels, they only talk about Ukraine, but I missed the beginning and now I do not understand what is going on.
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Back in the 1990s, when I first came to the USA, only one episode broke my euphoria about the Western way of life.
We with a local friend went along the unfrequented street and admired the city. Suddenly, we were overtaken by a car from with incredibly loudly carried rap music. In the car there were …
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I have noticed an interesting thing: almost all readers who negatively reacted to my posts about the Soviet Union are supporters of Putin’s Russia in the conflict with Ukraine.
This once again proved to me that in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions there is now not so much …
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In a free society, where there are few restrictions, limits, censorship, more thoughts, words, ideas are born.
And the more ideas, the greater the choice and the greater the probability of survival in the competition of the best of the ideas.
That is why the best cars, computers, phones, pictures and …
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As a child, I spent every summer with my grandmother in the village. She lived alone (grandfather was killed in the war), and I kind of helped her.
I remember one case.
Once in the middle of the night my grandmother harnessed the cart …
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In Kazakhstan, no language must be infringed in any way!
I think see it as the perfect situation when Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian, English, Arabic, Turkish and other languages will be heard on our streets.
I’m all for it!
But … let’s figure it out. What language is being …
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The dispute over the name of our “southern capital” arose long ago and periodically flares up again.
During this time, in my opinion, it has acquired a more political color than practical.
In fact, the picture seems to me very simple.
If we speak Kazakh, then we need to use the Kazakh …
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When several years ago there was question about what phone to buy instead of “Nokia”, I thought about it. At that time everything was dominated by “Apple”: “iPhone” in the hands of every teenager, “iMac” in every office, “iPad” in every corner. Everyone was obsessed with the “apple”.
But I did not want to be like …
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When I’m abroad on vacation, my favorite occupation is to get settled somewhere in a cafe at a table in a crowded street, watch people from all over the world and guess their nationality.
Here, for example, there is a family of tall blondes: red faces, light hair, lots of children, weather. …
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