Articles by Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas
Just a quick post here - was reading my Central Asian news scrawl, when I came across an article that referred to “Dr. Karimova.” And I thought, ‘Noooo, they don’t mean our Googoosha, do they?”
But …
Let’s agree that Central Asia is sometimes behind the rest of the world. This is not due to decline or inability, but distance and difficulties in translation. For example, when the Internet was first speeding …
This post is more or less in direct opposition to Bakhrom’s post on Swine Flu. I agree with Michael Hancock here, but I’m going to go a little bit further and try to flesh out …
Editor’s note: This is the third part in “Astrostan”, a series of posts on the historical and social importance of the Space Program in Kazakhstan.
This post will strive to address the real and imagined …
Quick couple links -
First, Wikipedia EN is stating that the Eastern Half of the Big Aral has completely dried up. They reference a news story [German] that doesn’t quote anything scientific, but seems merely to …
Pot in Kazakhstan has a long and, some would say, glorious history. From the narcotics scandals of the late Soviet Union to Aitmatov’s brilliant fiction that dealt quite closely with the issue of wild cannabis …
Thanks to Danil for posting this on LiveJournal (RU) (ENG). And there is this story (RU),(ENG) from zakon.kz. It’s a good guidepost to stamp Fall 2009 in the technological development of Kazakhstan. I think it’s …
This is the second part in “Astrostan”, a series of posts on the historical and social importance of the Space Program in Kazakhstan. Here neweurasia’s Timur takes on a guided tour of the disasters and tragedies of the Soviet era.
Editor’s note: This is the first part in “Astrostan”, a series of posts on the historical and social importance of the Space Program in Kazakhstan.
Deep inside Kazakhstan’s seemingly endless steppe sits a well-kept secret: the …
Two stories to link for you today.
The first comes from Foreign Policy. It ran ten days ago, but forgive my lateness. The internet operates at a different velocity in Kazakhstan, Foreign Policy is …
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