Not long ago I had a heart-to-heart talk with my niece, a girl of marriageable age.
“What kind of girls do you like, Uncle Marat?” she asked. “I just want to understand the men’s psychology.”
“Well, I’m probably not a typical male representative.”
“But still. I’m interested in your opinion.”
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In the 90s, my parents lived in the Straight Way near Alma-Ata.
At that time, it was a clean, well-groomed village. People lived amicably and cheerfully in it. Families of different nationalities lived on our street: Kazakhs, Turks, Russians, and Ukrainians. The closest neighbors to us were two families opposite to our house: uncle Abzar with …
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Here is my definition of terrorism:
Terrorism is powerless anger.
Why anger?
Because in all cases of terrorism, some group of people are dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs, embittered by this and trying to change the existing order of things.
Why powerless?
Because, according to these …
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Almost every time I go to Astana’s public places, it ends with a psychological trauma. Every time I want to hang huge posters on the skyscrapers of the city:
“People! Be tactful and polite!
Do not jump the queue. Do not push people around. Do not stand close to the person standing in …
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With the development of market relations in any society, a stratification of the rich and poor is inevitable. It is natural as well as the fact that some of us are smarter, others are sillier, some are more goal-oriented, others are lazier, some are braver, others are more cautious. This is how it should be.…
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Difficult times which the President of the country warned us about are already coming. Oil does not appreciate. There is less and less hope for a miracle. Anyhow, it is not expected in the short term. The lack of money will be greatly felt now.
What should …
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How do I feel about homosexuality?
It’s hard to explain in a few words.
The first postulate I adhere to is that homosexuality is a deviation from the normal behavior of a biological individual. Nature has established a mechanism for the reproduction of humans through …
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I never understood people who having stood for hours in the queue, pushing their elbows, fainting, hurry to buy a new iPhone on the first day of sales or see Star Wars on the day of the premiere, or to have a cup of coffee in the new Starbucks on the opening day.
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Sometimes a good intention leads to the opposite result.
I remember when I was 5 years old I saw that the postman was bringing the newspapers in our five-story building only to the second floor and putting them there in the mailboxes.
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I’m for the construction of crematoriums in Kazakhstan.
To commemorate the deceased is not obligatory grave enough and urns. And cemeteries take up a lot of space and take a lot of human resources (money, time, forces) on a global scale.You need to soberly treated during the development …
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