Kazakhstan: History, Culture and Internet
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While Ukraine is taking a principle stand towards its history and calling Holodomor (famine of the 1930s) genocide of the nation, undertaken by the communist regime, Kazakhstani authorities are very quiet on the comparable disaster of the Stalin era, when more than 30 percent of the Kazakhs died. Schriftsteller says [ru]:
Famine in Kazakhstan was not simply genocide, but also ethnocide, because it left significant changes in the Kazakh culture: the type of economy, settling , habitation and clothing changed dramatically. The previous complex of Kazakh nomadic culture, which was present in 1920s was eliminated during the years of famine.
Alim-atenbek looks at the development of Kazakhstani cinematography. One of the recent Kazakh film, “The Gift to Stalin” opened the South Korean film festival, while another movie, “The Tulip”, has taken the CNN APSA Viewers Choice Award [ru]:
3 movies that I saw recently in the cinema were Kazakh ones… Next year, KazakhFilm studio plans to make 15 movies, and if half of them would be of comparable quality, it would be possible to speak about resurrection of the domestic cinematograph.
While Russian blogosphere discusses theft of money at creation of secondary schools’ websites, Megakhuimyak suggests taking a glance at how state funds are spent in the sphere of e-government [ru]:
51 billion tenge, which makes up 425 million dollars were spent for this e-government portal (http://www.e.gov.kz/wps/portal)
Cheerful-husky continues the Internet-related debate and finds out that most of the Kazakhstn-related Google ads lead to the religious websites [ru]:
Link “I hate my life” always grabs your attention. Apparently, it brings you to some Studentstan website, which appears to be a Christian organization. Love.kz has nothing to do with dating – it’s also a mission and love they speak about is the God’s one.
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yeah crazyrals//..u see? now the American right wing has taken slumdog and turned it into a racial epithetso I will reiterate for all the Kashyaps out there..Danny Boyle is a victim of an age old conditioning process which reduces the entire third world into cockroach infested, crime riddled cesspools, which can be their only depiction onscreen that will be accepted by mainstream audiences..he may not be aware of this, but it exists nevertheless..hey Kashyap, however high you may climb in your profession, you will always be another slumdog filmmaker who climbed out of the shit to make his mark in the civilized world..Just like Laxmi Mittal is a slumdog industrialist who made good (much to the chagrin of the French at his taking over Arcelor), and just as Freida Pinto will be known as the first ever slumdog to grace the cover of People magazinethe list goes on. We will never, ever lose that epithet no matter how gentile,cultured and refined we feel we arethanks to Boyles conveniently packaged and highly cliched representation of the exotic eastHey Tata,Birla, Ambani, all you goddam slumdogs out there, are you listening?? A brand new label has just been coined to describe you allnow I am no longer seperated from the great Indian Unwashed mass..LOL..8 Oscars has made sure of thatr u listening , all you slumdogs with wireless internet,split a/cs,two cars per household,Barista sipping,HBO watching citizens of a Global Powerhaha, nothing but a bunch of Slumdogs at the end of the daythanks Boyle.Not since Lord Macauley (who claimed to love India a lot) said that one shelf of British writing was worth more than the entire generations of Indian literature, has anyone done our nation such a great serviceand even self-proclaimed artists like Kashyap are busy lapping it up
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