Quote of the Day Archive

20092011

One on one with the cold

26.11.2009

Good to be an authority! Every morning get out of a warm apartment, get into the car with climate control, of course, heated seats and not being late go in the office, where there is even a stable, carefully and precisely defined degree of comfortable room temperature. Why does the city administration,... 4585 

Swiss October in Almaty

30.10.2009

Chatoyant melodies of Alpine horn, mountain echo, unique green of Swiss Alpine meadows, freezy freshness of air, crystal cleanness of mountain lakes, birds' warbles in a shadows of the trees and something more were brought one autumn evening in Almaty by Swiss music group "Mytha" leading by Hans Kennel. Captivating... 758 

The simple product

25.10.2009

How the state becomes rich? And how it lives? Why does it not need gold when it has a simple product? I was always interested with these questions while I was traveling. I am not such a big economist as Evgeny Onegin described by Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, and have not read Adam Smith neither... 713 

Regular "uniform" revision

05.10.2009

Education system in Kazakhstan as well as ministers who "cares" about it and change themselves carrying out this duty more than often are highly debatable by journalists who every time asks regardless from proposed innovations: "Will this make increase knowledge creation in students' heads?" This time... 876 

Not moveable feast

24.09.2009

Theme of large scale festive events in our days is predictable as... a watermelon. Or as reports shown on state television about such celebrations. It does not matter what kind of watermelon you cut, you will get same seeds and relatively sweet pulp. It also does not matter what kind of creativity... 732 

Not pioneers, nor scouts

11.09.2009

According to the statistics provided by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, more than 2,5 million boys and girls went to school this year. 297 thousands 584 children opened doors to the first grade, and 54% went to country side schools. Comparing ministerial statistics from 2008... 737 

A reason to be an optimist

07.09.2009

It is easy to be an optimist having a bank account in offshore, influential relatives or at least stable job. Life automatically became radiant than with empty fridge, menacing calls from state utility services all together at one time and panic learning by heart of 'Vacancy' newspaper. Being... 1117 

When mentality is an advantage

23.06.2009

It is impossible to look inside a head of a common citizen and to get to know what he or she thinks about. However, a dream of Mell Gibson from the known movie "What women want" may be partially manageable for those, who analyze the market of mass media. Existence defines consciousness, the saying... 846 

Unmeasured work

17.06.2009

The British Council in Almaty a press-conference dedicated to arrival of volunteers from UK and starting the second stage of Global Exchange program’s work on 15th of June. 9 volunteers from the UK and 9 Kazakhstani volunteers came from Bishops and Harlow in the United Kingdom to continue their work... 840 

"Football is a love affaire" said Mark Perryman

10.06.2009

An academic, a lifetime England fan and regular commentator on England fan issues for BBC TV News and Sky Sports, the author of three books on England football fans, the person who can't separate the football and Englishness. That is all about Mark Perryman. "If you are an England fan you don't need... 780 

Imagination of youngsters developed by animation

03.06.2009

First animation festival Anifest'09 takes place in Almaty from 30 May to June 5. The organizers of the festival is A2B (www.arttobusiness.net) public foundation. They defined the goal of the animation festival, which included forum of animators, as popularization of the contemporary animation art in... 1741 

Meaning of being No1

27.05.2009

Kazakhstan being located in the heart of Central Asia with all pertaining to it advantages accumulates strengths to enhance not only regional leadership, but now wants the world fame. The chair of the world information agency AFP Pierre Louette this week reassured the Kazakhstani journalists that Central... 794 

Kazakhstan calls for positive thinking

13.05.2009

It became dangerous for one's nerve system to watch TV, listen to the radio, not saying about reading newspapers, which only writes of crisis, prognosis of its consequences and other related issues. There is an alternative way to tackle the life, consider a group of 14 Kazakshtani citizens, who urge... 816 

Keys to the crisis

07.05.2009

The director of the Institute of Politic researches of Singapore, Ong Keng Yong shared his opinion concerning the message of Kazakhstani president titled as "Through crisis to renovation and development". He referred to the message of Kazakhstani president and his author article titled as "keys from... 707 

Truth in between

30.04.2009

The survey on our web-site showed that readers believe in abilities of Kazakhstan to overcome the crisis. Kazakhstan is regarded as the country of Central Asia with the best chances, which were evaluated as 62%, to have enough strengths to handle the crisis. Turkmenistan was rated as the second most... 715 

Balkhash problem

22.04.2009

The 9th Ile-Balkhash regatta is to be held in the basin region in Kazakhstan. The public figures, athletes, and all the people indifferent to the problem will take part in the annual event. The regatta will be accompanied with performances and competitions. The problem of Balkhash lake has been discussed... 1472 

Attention to the earth

07.04.2009

Disasters often make the headlines stories. This happened with the recent terrifying news coming from Italy, which was shaken this Monday by a ruinous earthquake. In this meaning, it is much more desirable to be an infamous nation and not to get into the first world news headlines. However, the nature... 786 

Children hours

30.03.2009

Somehow, law drafts adopted and proposed in Russia, very frequently are repeated by Kazakhstani law makers. It refers to many fields - not just those, which are expected to be very similar due to agreements which are signed by Kazakhstan and our big neighbor Russia, for instance, energy field, political... 775 

To find work-rest balance

20.03.2009

Nauryz holiday caused ambiguous feelings this year. People didn't know what to do: whether enjoy holidays 3 or 5 days. All this happened, because of the amendments of the law draft on Holidays in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Before the spring holiday was celebrated only one day on March 22, whereas all... 842 

Weaker point

06.03.2009

The holiday 8th of March is celebrated mostly in the former Soviet Union countries, as well as in Brazil, Cuba, in some eastern European countries and Asian with the strong influence of Communism ideas such as China, Laos. However, even in the CIS countries the holiday bears a symbolic meaning as... 756 

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