... truly jump across a wide river in a single bound. Don’t believe me? Watch the video below… Like the smoking hookahs video, this is shot in the mountains that surround Almaty (the old capital of Kazakhstan), and he even manages to quote the temperature in Celsius, rather than the American (and confusing unless you’re British and a bit older than me) standard of Fahrenheit. The ...

... crime to cross the road. In Astana, the cars stop way before the zebra crossing. In Almaty, if you are rushing for a bus and make it to the bus but the bus has already closed its doors, ... have a map showing the bus route, and a list of all buses that go to that bus stop. In Almaty, there are no such things in the bus stop. It is said that this is because the bus routes are not confirmed, they can ...

... in Shymkent. Tuesday we board a 10am flight to Almaty, arriving before noon, and spend the rest of the day without ... .  This time it will be just the three of us. After what is hopefully a fun and relaxing day in Almaty, we wake up Wednesday to head home.  Thankfully, ... fly Lufthansa, we can leave on a Saturday evening and arrive in Almaty just after midnight early Monday morning. Mid ...

... ;s been a big year for barcamping in Central Asia.  There was, of course, the mother of all barcamps in Almaty in the Spring, organized by neweurasia’s own Yelena.  Another one was pulled off ... — trailblazing the digital frontier — not to mention EduCamp back in Almaty. But when 2009 started, no one could have imagined that there would be barcamps in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan ( ...

So, here I am at work, eating my lunch and reading blogs. I catch up on the story of a family currently in Almaty who just met their son today. As I read about their first meeting with their scared, shy, and perfectly perfect son - WOOSH - I am swept back to our first days in Karaganda. And I realize, "Oh my goodness, one year ago Sash was an empty t-shirt under our Christmas tree!" ...

HEPATITIS C, TRANSFUSION RELATED – KAZAKHSTAN: (ALMATY) A ProMED-mail post < ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases < Date: Sun 9 Dec 2009 Source: KTK News Agency < Republic Blood Transfusion Centre enmeshed in hepatitis C scandal ——————&# ...

... loans for investment. To call the resulting real estate bubble huge would be a gross understatement. According to an index quoted by Symbat Abilkhassimova in the Caspian Business Journal, the price of real estate in Almaty rose 10-fold in the four-year period after 2003, from $360 a square meter for residential real estate to $3,700 a square meter in 2007. That index is exaggerated, but prices ...

... ), I thought I should put up a map of Central Asia here. I found this map here. You may notice that the map shows all of Central Asia.  While I will be living in Almaty (starting next summer), I will be working on programs in each of the 5 ‘Stans (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Hopefully I will be able to publish pictures and tidbits from all five.   ...

Phase I - Russia Day 1: Dmitry After three days bumming around Almaty, I finally made it to Moscow, stop one of six before I fly home. I got in late at night and spent a little over an hour getting to Dmitry's house. Dmitry came through Petro in the summer and I met back up with him through CouchSurfing.org. Once I had managed the Express Airport train and two metro lines, he met me right ...

... ) World Champion and the top seed (and probable future world champion), with Karjakin as a dangerous outsider. Whoever you consider title holder, Dominguez for winning last year’s World Blitz in Almaty or Ivanchuk who won last year’s Tal Memorial Blitz (which had a stronger field), neither of them will keep his title. Some players we expected to do better, for instance Levon Aronian ...

São José dos Campos, November 17, 2009 Embraer is pleased to welcome the expanding Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana to its E-Jets family of customers. The airline will operate two EMBRAER 190 jets out of Almaty, Kazakhstan, under a newly ratified agreement with the U.S. aircraft leasing company Jetscape, Inc., based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

... surprise at bumping into one of our CanaKaz (fellow Canadians who have adopted from Kazakhstan) friends! Not only do Zoe and 4-year-old Ali have a general Kazakhstan connection, but they were both born in Almaty and both adopted from Baby House #2. It may be a big zoo, but it sure is a small world! Zoe learning about monkeys and uncles. Following are photos from the zoo's recently opened ...

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... the field, MI decided to pullout, sources in know of the development said. OVL which had in 2007 relented to the Kazakh condition of getting Mittal in the highly prospective field, has written to Almaty, saying the 25 per cent stake in Satpayev would now be acquired by it and not by ONGC-Mittal Energy Ltd - the joint venture it had with Mittal. Sources said Mittal, which had dumped OVL when in ...