This is a story from an acquaintance of mine. I have no reason to doubt her.
She is from Western Kazakhstan, but it so happened that she fell in love with a guy from the South and married him. They now have a daughter. They live with her husband’s family in Astana.
Here’s what her life looks like now: every …
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Some people have a consumerist mindset and attitude towards money. They dream of getting rich quickly and buying a huge villa, and an expensive car, and lounging on the beach all day sipping cocktails. These are the extent of their dreams. This is their happiness.
Then there are people with a creative mindset. Money for them is not an end …
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Recently, a friend told me that he accidentally woke up in the middle of the night and saw some thieves trying to steal jewelry at the entrance of the shop on the ground floor of their apartment building.
Most people, seeing this, would yawn and go back to sleep. But my friend stuck his head out of the window and …
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Why does the entourage of an authoritarian leader eventually turn into flatterers and sycophants? Why does this process develop in a geometric progression?
It’s very simple.
In an authoritarian society, the head of state is the sole source of power. Not the people, but him alone. He distributes all goods: high government positions, financial flows in national companies, and natural …
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I notice how some people get annoyed and reluctantly comply with the laws of today, particularly regarding wearing masks and having their temperature measured at the entrance to public places.
I’ve seen several times how men and women wave off the staff of shopping centers discontentedly and try to bypass them to avoid having their temperature taken.
I consider this …
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Finally, the public has been presented with a new version of the Kazakh alphabet in Latin script!
I believe that our people have achieved an epic victory over bureaucracy in their effort to please their superiors and have successfully fended off the terrible versions with digraphs and apostrophes.
The presented version looks the most successful of all previously proposed.
We …
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Many parents of high school graduates face the question: should they send their child to study in big cities at universities? Many fear that their children won’t resist the temptations of the metropolis, will associate with the wrong crowd, and become drug addicts, alcoholics, and hooligans.
In such cases, I always recall my student life.
I enrolled in the capital’s …
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Imagine that you are sitting at the controls of an airplane and you have to fly it through a huge lifeless space – the valley of death. There is no water, no food, and no life in this valley. Therefore, it is very important to fly to its other edge and land on fertile, fragrant land. All the people around …
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Sometimes I hear these words:
“This blogger traveled half the country in search of scandalous stories. All the fields and forests have overgrown. Do you think he is working hard for the sake of good business? No way! For himself, for his own fame. And you, like devout hamsters, are liking him and writing eulogistic comments. He just uses you. …
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