Category: Kazakhstan

Salem from Almaty, Kazakhstan, We Australians know how ill-informed stereotypes fall short of the reality. “You Australians have kangaroos hopping down the main street.” “In Australia, there are spiders and snakes everywhere.” And so on. Here in Kazakhstan, they suffered from a cruel representation by Sacha Baron Cohen in “Borat”, in which Kazakhs were portrayed …Read More

Salem from Almaty, Kazakhstan,     We are here at a time of national mourning, after the death of Denis Ten, a young man who enjoyed the status of a national hero. The natural propensity of these people to smile has been subdued by a jolting shock to the national psyche. Denis Ten     …Read More