When people hear about the achievements of other people, many have a feeling of envy.
But some people have “black” envy, which strangles them from within and poisons their lives. It whispers to them that they are losers. Then, in their justification, they begin to look for shortcomings in the objects of their envy and with joyful relief find them …
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When you read many books about spirituality and accept them, you penetrate these ideas, you begin to grow spiritually.
But sometimes this spirituality does not extend to your daily life, does not reach small everyday things.
Today, when I returned to my car in the parking lot of the shopping center, I found that the owner of the next car …
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Every year on May 9 Kazakhstan celebrates Victory Day.
However, recently the significance of this holiday began to cause many doubts.
I’ll try to understand each of them.
1. Was there any Patriotic war in general? World War II is known throughout the world. It was named Patriotic for propaganda purposes in the Soviet Union.
Yes, I agree. The same …
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On May 31, Kazakhstan celebrates the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression and Mass Famine of the 30s.
I bow my head before our compatriots who died and suffered innocently.
This day is important for rethinking our history.
I consider the main lesson of those events to be the awareness of the perniciousness of totalitarianism for society.
It …
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May 30 in Kazakhstan is a Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions and Mass Hunger of the 1930s.
I bow my head to the innocently lost and injured our compatriots.
This day is important for rethinking our history.
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The Day of Defenders of the Fatherland is celebrated in Kazakhstan on May 7.
Did you wonder why May 7?
What happened on this day?
Maybe the great Kazakh batyrs won some kind of historic victory over the Jungars? Or Amangeldy’s emancipating forces heroically died on this day? Or was there a turning point in the World War II on …
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This is how I see the national and linguistic model of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan will remain a multinational state. No one will be expelled or oppressed on a national or racial basis. A person does not choose his or her nationality at birth, therefore nationality itself can not be the basis for exaltation or humiliation of anyone.…
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I myself am a Russian-speaking Kazakh.
I was born in the Russian city of Leninsk (Baikonur), studied at the Russian school, studied in Russian at the university, my work was mostly in the Russian-speaking environment.
I still think and speak better in Russian.
Personally, it would be beneficial for me that in Kazakhstan everyone would speak Russian and nothing would …
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What is “hype”?
This is a foreign word, meaning agiotage, stormy discussion, mass discussion, scandal, intrusive advertising, emotional arousal, etc.
There is commercial, social and political hype.
A commercial hype is raised to arouse interest in some product, person or company. For example, a good hype was played in Kazakhstan a year ago as …
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I am ready to believe and follow that political force, of which leaders do not hate their opponents, do not try to destroy them or remove them from the political scene, do not block the channels of broadcasting, do not remove them from friends in social networks, do not erase their comments, take criticism with dignity, without …
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