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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Recently I talked with one businessman.
He told me an interesting thing.
– Personally, – he says, – I am ready to pay all taxes to the state. Moreover, they are relatively low. But under one condition: if taxes pay absolutely everything. I say this not even from some considerations of patriotism and civic …
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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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Once I had an interesting dispute at a meeting in the Government. One of the line ministries reported their plans to introduce the latest technologies in order to achieve their target – a twofold increase in labor productivity, that is, the same volume of production will be achieved by half the number of people.
Another ministry …
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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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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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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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Yesterday on the way to Burabay we stopped at a roadside stop to buy water. My companions went to the kiosk, and I stayed in the car. I sat and waited for them.
A car with darkened rear windows stood in front of me. Apparently, they also were also waiting for someone.
Suddenly a …
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Recently I spoke with an Italian that I know. Conversation started on public services. He really liked our system of PSCs. He says they do have one. People still go to different institutions.
Then he showed me his documents for comparison, and I showed mine.
It turned out that in Italy people still use …
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I do not know why, but in the unspoken Olympic medal ranking, the ratings are made exclusively for gold medals (see the attached file for the arrangement of countries at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics). Even the total number of medals is not taken into account. So, China, which won 70 medals, is only in the third place, …
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