Opinions about competitors.

       From correspondence with a consulting company:

    – Hello, Alexey. I am interested in your offer. It differs favorably from your competitors’ offers by the price and volume of services. Please send me a contract.

    – Hello, Marat. I will send the contract. As for the competitors: we have no competitors in this area. …

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Western propaganda

           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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Conscience and Law

             I have two friends. Both are lawyers. Both are very competent. But their views of life are completely different.

            The first is an expert in legal loopholes. In any law, he finds gaps with great enthusiasm and then shows them to his friends with a victorious look, saying,…

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Talk with a son about Ukraine

          – 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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Colorful America.

     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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Test for objectivity.

     Will you still respect the sage who suddenly dislikes you?

     Will you still despise the scoundrel who will bestow you with honors?

     Will you still love the person who suddenly stopped loving you?…

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War of ideologies

            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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Do not scare the officials.

       I remembered how when I was deputy akim of Astana and vice-minister, I went out with my family to the city on weekends, some passers-by recognized me and looked at me in amazement. They were very surprised: “a person like him with no bodyguards!” )))

       And I always liked the democratic style of behavior …

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“Wedding generals”.

     I look at some young high-ranking officials and remember myself in their situation.

     Just appointed to a high position. Congratulations of friends and acquaintances. Pride of relatives. Attention at all events.

     Then a new phenomenon appears in their life: an invitation to events as a “wedding general”. At first, it looks sincere. Close friends are invited. …

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What good is freedom?

      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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