Learn how a marshrutka gets you around, about Kazakh food and its Central Asian – USSR influence…
I run a podcast called Kazakhstan Stories:
“Life in Kazakhstan – from first hand accounts to the sounds of life …

Westerners like me have difficulties in differentiating the terms nationality and citizenship in most parts of the former USSR, including Kazakhstan.
Here, citizenship is the nation of which you possess a passport and nationality is the …

Everybody speaks Russian and most Kazakhs also speak some level of Kazakh. In this the most russified country in Central Asia the lingua franca is Russian.
The South in more ethnic Kazakh and the Kazakh language …

A book should be written on Nursultan Nazarbayev’s 16 plus years as the top man in Kazakhstan. Western news highlights the corruption and lack of full democracy but there are tangible reasons he is in …