Kazakhstan

I’m still alive from Snowmageddon!

February 7, 2010

Two quick things over at my other sites:  For Walrus, I reported on Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakhstan’s Secretary of State, at the Atlantic Council in DC.  It was really exciting, especially in light of the Kazakh movie I saw recently: And, regarding the Blizzard of the Century, I went clinically insane. Because, really, how many jigsaw puzzles can you put together in a day?  Also, don’t make fun of my cat hat.  I requested it to be made by my mom ...

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Movie Review: Gift to Stalin (Подарок Сталину) and Interview with Cast

December 17, 2009

This is not an easy movie to see. In fact, I didn’t want to see it at all and fought with myself because I knew just from the description it would be an impossibly cruel movie about the bodies Stalin left behind. Nevertheless, you should see it, because to see this movie is to understand what it means to be human.  It helped me understand much better what my grandpa, who was in exile in Uzbekistan during World War II ...

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