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swdp: Bonobo - ‘Cirrus’
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Jan 29, 2014. Bonobo - ‘Cirrus’. Elsewhere on the web: @swdp.
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Winter in Almaty | One Steppe at a Time
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One Steppe at a Time. Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia. Almaty in snow, shot from my balcony. Just a few short weeks ago, autumn arrived; winter has come soon after. This will be a short post, as I have had a hectic week and my internet connection has not been as stable as previously. The street on which I live. Or prison colony, now major urban center), and I can’t help but feel sorry for them in the cold and wind. Come winter. She has since confirmed with me that this is the case.
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On the Rise | One Steppe at a Time
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One Steppe at a Time. Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia. A sign announcing the new bus fare. A black rye bread popular throughout the former USSR) went from KZT 68 to 92 – a 35% increase. There are two stories being told here; the first is about food security, which is a huge issue in Central Asia, but one about which maybe I’ll write a chapter in my hypothetical future book. Next post →. Cambridge Central Asia Forum. Follow Paull by Email. Ain’t No Mountain High…. Article, Russian Version.
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Pearls of France | One Steppe at a Time
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One Steppe at a Time. Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia. The lesson for today, kids, is that France. Friday at the museum, everyone was wearing their sparkliest polyesters. The occasion was the opening of the new exhibition “Pearls of France,” which is a show of French art through the ages sponsored by the Elysée Palace and corporations with interests in Kazakhstan. Somebody called it “grandiose and epoch-making.”. We probably could be, but no one dare try anymore). Next post →. The Water...
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Seven Rivers | One Steppe at a Time
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One Steppe at a Time. Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia. A Google Earth map of Almaty in the Semirechie Region. In Kyrgyz, which you may remember from the previous post), but there is disagreement about exactly which rivers get counted (my list excludes the Baksan, Chilik, Koksu, Korgan, Lepsi, Talas and Tentek), which is both a result and symptom of the fact that people don’t agree on the historical territorial boundaries of the region. A History of Inner Asia. Next post →. On a jet plane.
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One Steppe at a Time | Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia | Page 2
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One Steppe at a Time. Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia. Central Asia Power System. A schematic of the Central Asia Power System (CAPS). Lenin once famously declared that “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.” In Central Asia, at least, once one of those pillars collapsed, so did the other. Chapter 2 of my hypothetical book,. Until Death Do Us Part. No alternative but to force the disorganized system to work. Article, Russian Version. Issue 5, in which ...
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Wake Up Call | One Steppe at a Time
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One Steppe at a Time. Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia. If I’ve been delinquent in my blogging responsibilities, it is because my summer in Almaty has kept me very busy. So busy, in fact, that I drove my body into the ground, and I am now laid up at home on antibiotics and painkillers, recovering. Falling ill precipitated my first interaction with healthcare since I came to Kazakhstan. I’ve written before. The other statistics I heard were:. Supposedly heroin is cheaper per dose than a n...
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Ain’t No Mountain High… | One Steppe at a Time
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One Steppe at a Time. Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia. Ain’t No Mountain High…. This is my last week in Kazakhstan, and I still have so much to share, and even more that I haven’t yet explored. To celebrate the end of my US tax dollar-supported adventure, I intend to post several times this week so that at least my American followers can feel like they got their money’s worth. I steered clear of the casinos, but enjoyed a resort called “Freedom.” I’ve long known th...Next post →. The Wo...
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The Waters that Bind | One Steppe at a Time
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One Steppe at a Time. Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia. The Waters that Bind. The artificial Nurek Reservoir in Tajikistan. Not my photograph. I've not been to Tajikistan yet. If I ever write a book about Central Asia, I will title it. Until Death do Us Part. The trouble is that “the ‘Stans” really don’t. It is therefore unfortunate that there are. This complicated system prioritized the uneconomic and highly wasteful agricultural industries in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. To this end,...
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Spoon Full of Sugar | One Steppe at a Time
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One Steppe at a Time. Exploring Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Central Asia. Spoon Full of Sugar. One of Almaty’s two dual-purpose ambulance-hearses left over (as best I can tell) from the Soviet period. Who said the Soviets were inefficient? I equate the desire for injections to the sounds – the beeps and pings – that computers used to make when connecting by modem to the internet. Those sounds were entirely artificial, but they gave the user a sense of. And thus doctors go on giving needless injections.
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