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Should I write my nationality in the documents?

In Kazakhstan’s social networks, there was a discussion about whether to indicate people’s nationality in their documents.

Personally, I hold the view that official relations within and between States are important for official information about a person that entails some legal consequences. For example, if the passport says that this is a citizen of Kazakhstan, then he can come to …

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A craftsman and an entrepreneur

A craftsman is a person who personally creates value with their own hands.

For example, a shoemaker who repairs customers ‘ shoes himself is a craftsman. Or a programmer who writes programs himself is a craftsman.

An entrepreneur is a person who organizes the process of creating value.

For example, a shoemaker who decided to expand his business, hired several …

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Shooting of the police officers.

     In Seoul, I turned out to be an unwilling witness to the riots related to impeachment to the country’s president, Ms. Pak Kun Hyo.

     I noticed one detail. During the clashes between the demonstrators and the police, many people in police uniforms filmed each incident, each scuffle, on the cameras. It was unusual to see this. …

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Criticism

           I could never understand people who don’t  perceive criticism.

          They resenting at any comments in their address; zealously watch, so that no one will allow himself a caustic cue in their back; on any unflattering statement are ready to pounce with fists or maliciously fend off: “Look at yourself.”

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Car repair in Italy.

       Once in Italy I talked to one local guy. He complained that he was given a small car at a service station for replacement.

      “What does it mean to replace,” I ask.

      – Well, I gave them my BMW X5 for repairs, and they give me a sedan 316 instead. Can you imagine? …

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Inaccessibility of akims.

       Several years ago I went to a meeting with the akim of one of the regions.

       So, I counted four (!) cordons on the way to him.

       The first post was waiting for me at the entrance to the akimat building (by the way, people enter the akimat through the side …

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Wealth is for show

               My friend’s son studies at one of the Czech universities.

               Recently she went to visit him. She decided to lavish her son’s classmates, mostly Czechs, with Kazakh national dishes, and served a dinner in the dormitory. Before the feast, the son suddenly said to his mother: …

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Holodomor is genocide?

       Genocide is an act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, any national, ethnic, racial, religious or other historically formed cultural and ethnic group.

      I believe that at the beginning of the last century, against the Kazakhs and Ukrainians, the leadership of the Soviet Union did not use genocide. I did not see a single document that …

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History lesson

            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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Noble political force.

       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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