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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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English business and citizens.

     Recently my Kazakh acquaintance who lives in London told me an interesting story from the ordinary life of the Englishmen.

     He himself lives near Heathrow Airport. So, it turns out that this airport has for a long time wanted to expand and build another additional runway. Being one of the largest airports in the world, its …

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Lawlessness in the notary system.

     Interesting things are going on in the Kazakhstani notarial sphere.

     Joint Stock Company “National Information Technologies” (“NIT”) has developed the software product “Unified Notary Information System” (“UNIS”). Information about the actions of all notaries of the country flows to the UNIS. From the same system, notaries take information about the actions of other notaries and through …

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“Free” money.

     The Government of Kazakhstan is considering the issue of imposing unconditional payments to all citizens of the country. This means that irrespective of age, sex, employment, well-being, all Kazakhs will be paid a small amount of money from the state budget regularly, every month. Just for the fact that they are citizens of this country.

     Personally, …

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Public and private kindergartens.

     A few words about the system of payment for kindergartens.

     The fee for visiting public kindergartens should be market. It should cover all costs of the gardens, taking into account the depreciation of buildings and property.

     But for visiting kindergartens people have to pay differently. Those who have waited for their turn from the …

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Dedollarization of the economy.

     Due to the frequent fluctuations in the exchange rate of the tenge and the inconveniences that they cause, many people in Kazakhstan began to call for the dedollarization of our economy.

     Let’s see, and what is dollarization in general?

     First of all, it seems to me, it is necessary to separate the two phenomena …

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On the dangers of ad hoc assignments.

       In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of 2009 “About the system of state planning” all activities of state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan are carried out according to their strategic plans, which determine the directions, goals, objectives, target indicators, activities and performance indicators. It is these indicators that are used to …

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Websites are “mares”.

      Remember in Pushkin’s “The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balda” there is such an episode: Balda argued with a little devil that he would not move the mare for half a verst. The devil strained his remarkable strength, lifted the blue one, and could not carry it more than two steps. And Balda climbed himself …

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Proximity to the source

         In childhood, when I was dragging water from a well for my grandmother, I noticed one phenomenon: the grass along the path along which people carried water was always greener and juicier than around. It’s just because water, sprinkled from buckets, and abundantly watered the grass along the path. And in this, the grass that was …

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Private traffic policemen.

     Some time ago I talked to a Moscow taxi driver. First we discussed Moscow traffic jams (well, this is an obligatory topic of any conversation in Moscow). Then I asked how they put things in order with parking cars on the roadside. So, he told me that the City Hall has signed a contract with private companies that …

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