One of the capital’s radio stations came up with a good action for the development of interethnic relations in our country. The other day I was driving in a car and listening to a broadcast about interesting facts of some ethnic groups living in Kazakhstan.
For example, I learned …
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Some time ago I talked to a Moscow taxi driver. First we discussed Moscow traffic jams (well, this is an obligatory topic of any conversation in Moscow). Then I asked how they put things in order with parking cars on the roadside. So, he told me that the City Hall has signed a contract with private companies that …
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I sincerely regret bloggers who carefully “clean up” the comments under their posts, that is, remove any criticism and disagreement with their point of view, but leave only sweet-voiced “approving”.
As much as one must be insecure and weak in spirit, to hide behind the fence from criticism.
If one of them gets into …
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I remember one day a man spoke at the meeting. One of the participants of the meeting criticized his speech. He did not insult or demean the speaker, and he was not at all against the speaker personally. He was only against the idea. But the speaker immediately blazed with fierce hatred toward him.
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In one remote country, Kolkhozstan (well, as far, actually, not so far away) there lived a prosecutor named Prosecutor.
Yes, it happened, so that he was really called the Prosecutor.
The fact is that his father was a prosecutor, his uncle was a prosecutor, and in general, many in the family were prosecutors, so …
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I remember that just a few years ago we blindly bowed to all foreign things. It seemed that only the foreign thing can be qualitative, good and at a high level.
I remember how with a pounding heart, I stepped on the board of the first foreign airline …
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Social networks have recently entered our life, but have already become an integral part of it. Like any social phenomenon, they require legal regulation.
I would like to share with some of my thoughts on that.
As you know, since 2012, Internet resources in Kazakhstan are considered to be equal to the mass media …
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I remember when I worked in the civil service, I encountered such a phenomenon as journalists’ racket.
It happened like this: a representative of some republican TV channel or newspaper comes to the akim of the region and says, “Sponsor our channel or oblige any local big company to do so. They will not refuse. Then …
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A woman and her adult son lived in a village. The son drank a lot, and because of that could not find a job or start a family. Nothing was going well with him.
One day a woman brought her son to the most respected elder in the village, a wise man, and asked him …
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President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed giving Kazakhstan a second title: “The Country of the Great Steppe.”
Some journalists incorrectly interpreted the words of the President and presented this initiative as an attempt to change the name “Kazakhstan” to a new one.
I do not think so.
This is about the second, informal name of the …
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