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Treaty on Non-Proliferation

           When Kazakhstan adopted a law on criminal liability for the dissemination of false information, I was sympathetic to this news.

           I perfectly understand that a false rumor about a bankruptcy of a bank can cause an outflow of deposits from it and lead to its real bankruptcy.

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Shooting of the police officers.

     In Seoul, I turned out to be an unwilling witness to the riots related to impeachment to the country’s president, Ms. Pak Kun Hyo.

     I noticed one detail. During the clashes between the demonstrators and the police, many people in police uniforms filmed each incident, each scuffle, on the cameras. It was unusual to see this. …

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Car repair in Italy.

       Once in Italy I talked to one local guy. He complained that he was given a small car at a service station for replacement.

      “What does it mean to replace,” I ask.

      – Well, I gave them my BMW X5 for repairs, and they give me a sedan 316 instead. Can you imagine? …

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Fair taxes.

     Recently I talked with one businessman.

     He told me an interesting thing.

     – Personally, – he says, – I am ready to pay all taxes to the state. Moreover, they are relatively low. But under one condition: if taxes pay absolutely everything. I say this not even from some considerations of patriotism and civic …

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Inaccessibility of akims.

       Several years ago I went to a meeting with the akim of one of the regions.

       So, I counted four (!) cordons on the way to him.

       The first post was waiting for me at the entrance to the akimat building (by the way, people enter the akimat through the side …

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Technical progress or jobs?

     Once I had an interesting dispute at a meeting in the Government. One of the line ministries reported their plans to introduce the latest technologies in order to achieve their target – a twofold increase in labor productivity, that is, the same volume of production will be achieved by half the number of people.

     Another ministry …

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Authoritarian regimes against the West

           What do North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Belarus and other similar countries have in common?

              All these countries are united by the hatred for the US and for the Western lifestyle, that is, for liberal democratic values. Why? What is the pattern here?

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Holodomor is genocide?

       Genocide is an act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, any national, ethnic, racial, religious or other historically formed cultural and ethnic group.

      I believe that at the beginning of the last century, against the Kazakhs and Ukrainians, the leadership of the Soviet Union did not use genocide. I did not see a single document that …

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History lesson

            May 30 in Kazakhstan is a Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions and Mass Hunger of the 1930s.

           I bow my head to the innocently lost and injured our compatriots.

           This day is important for rethinking our history.

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Noble political force.

       I am ready to believe and follow that political force, of which leaders do not hate their opponents, do not try to destroy them or remove them from the political scene,  do not block the channels of broadcasting, do not remove them from friends in social networks, do not erase their comments, take criticism with dignity, without …

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