Yesterday on the way to Burabay we stopped at a roadside stop to buy water. My companions went to the kiosk, and I stayed in the car. I sat and waited for them.
A car with darkened rear windows stood in front of me. Apparently, they also were also waiting for someone.
Suddenly a …
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Recently I spoke with an Italian that I know. Conversation started on public services. He really liked our system of PSCs. He says they do have one. People still go to different institutions.
Then he showed me his documents for comparison, and I showed mine.
It turned out that in Italy people still use …
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I do not know why, but in the unspoken Olympic medal ranking, the ratings are made exclusively for gold medals (see the attached file for the arrangement of countries at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics). Even the total number of medals is not taken into account. So, China, which won 70 medals, is only in the third place, …
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At the beginning of the last century, a phenomenon such as the “Black Hundreds” developed in Russia.
Initially, it meant an informal movement of Russian chauvinists and anti-Semites who aggressively oppressed Jews and enemies of the monarchy.
Over time, the meaning of this word has changed, but personally in my perception, the “Black Hundreds” …
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Today a friend told me a story.
Yesterday the class teacher of her daughter, who is a school-leaver, called her to school. She invited her to the office, closed the door and very confidently informed my friend that they had managed to come to an agreement with the …
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Today I got a call from a relative, living in Kyzylorda region.
She has a disabled husband, three children, she has several jobs, doing her best to make both ends meet.
She said she needed help, her voice pleading.
‘What …
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The state has two ways: either to do everything right, and then the media will praise it, or do everything wrong, and pay the media money so that they say that it is doing everything right.…
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So why did Russia was really punished for and why its’ national team was not allowed for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea?
The article of the English “Guardian” details the report of the Head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commission to investigate the facts of the use and concealment of doping in Russia by …
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One of the creations of the Kremlin propaganda says that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) secretly gave permission to some American athletes (for example, Williams sisters) to use illegal drugs, while Russian athletes were banned. And the supposedly heroic efforts of the hacker group called “Fancy Bears” helped to uncover this injustice.
And now comes the …
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Modern politics has a very painful question, which has not been unequivocally answered over the years.
Where is the line between the fight for independence and separatism?
After all, almost always, when some are fighting for independence of their nationality or their territory, there are others who consider it as separatism and fight against …
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