State and private cemeteries.

       I think that we should have both state cemeteries and private ones.

       State cemeteries should be kept at the expense of the budget and provide a minimum level of services free of charge (plot of land for the grave, security and cleaning of the cemetery territory). In the state cemetery, competing with private companies, …

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Revolver.

     – Hello, Fidel!

     – Hello, Huber!

     – You are doing fine, Fidel! Today you declaimed such a fiery speech at the trial! Our whole party is proud of you. Especially we liked your point about dictator: “If he is not punished but continues to be the master of the state, the president, the prime …

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Terrorism is powerless anger.

     Here is my definition of terrorism:

     Terrorism is powerless anger.

     Why anger?

     Because in all cases of terrorism, some group of people are dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs, embittered by this and trying to change the existing order of things.

     Why powerless?

     Because, according to these …

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Liberal or Socialist.

     Check yourself: do you belong to liberals or to socialists. Answer the seven questions, respectively putting the letter L or S. At the end of the test, add all the answers with the letter L and with the letter S.

     So:

     1. If you think that the human personality is the highest value in …

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Etiquette.

      Almost every time I go to Astana’s public places, it ends with a psychological trauma. Every time I want to hang huge posters on the skyscrapers of the city:

     “People! Be tactful and polite!

     Do not jump the queue. Do not push people around. Do not stand close to the person standing in …

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Dedollarization of the economy.

     Due to the frequent fluctuations in the exchange rate of the tenge and the inconveniences that they cause, many people in Kazakhstan began to call for the dedollarization of our economy.

     Let’s see, and what is dollarization in general?

     First of all, it seems to me, it is necessary to separate the two phenomena …

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For Russia or for Turkey?

          Due to the aggravation of Russian-Turkish relations, Kazakh society was divided into three camps: for Russia, for Turkey, for no one.

          I’ll try to explain my position.

          What are our reasons to be for Russia?

          1. Is it because Russia …

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Unity in diversity

          We are so different: red and dark, tall and low, fat and thin, funny and sad.

          Some of us like beshbarmak, others – he, some dance the polka, others – lezginka, some wear a skullcap, others – a papakha.

          There …

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Rich and poor

           With the development of market relations in any society, a stratification of the rich and poor is inevitable. It is natural as well as the fact that some of us are smarter, others are sillier, some are more goal-oriented, others are lazier, some are braver, others are more cautious. This is how it should be.…

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The etymology of our fears in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

     According to my observations, the majority of Russians living in Kazakhstan have taken the side of Russia in its conflict with Ukraine. And there is an explanation for this. They are connected with Russia by ethnic kinship. Many of them realize themselves first of all as Russians, and only then as Kazakhstanis. Add the information environment here: there …

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