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Kazakhstan: Big politics and human lives
Real estate news By Adam Kesher
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
But politics first: Andy-taker draws attention to the fact that ministers in Kazakhstan are being reshuffled, migrating from one government to another in a manner which bears no particular relation to their professions. Pretty much the same happens on lower levels; maybe this is the reason for the people's dissatisfaction with the officials? After visits to a number of government bodies and agencies, Astanchanka is very angry: “Bureaucrats are just killing me! They are rude and ignorant - ridiculously explaining this with low salaries and tiredness. Gorbachev was right: Citizens should start Perestroika from themselves” (RUS).
Raseyannaya from Ekibastuz (a town in Central Kazakhstan) is indignant towards those officials who are skeptical about non-traditional religions, consider Krishna followers as extremists and want to introduce religious education in schools. “Our state is secular”, she reminds people, “and even if I want to worship a Steam Iron, nobody shall have any objections” (RUS). Probably, this official attitude has also led to problems with the supply of textbooks to the schools. Neweurasia's Ksenia reports on the matter: “The Kazakhstani children have entered the new school year with ambitious novelties: more Internet access and 1,000 “interactive blackboards” – everything necessary for the new era education. However, the main problems occur in the very elementary basics”.
Miss-crazy, a young mother, is amazed: “When I was of the same age as my son, we studied Ancient History in school. Now he brought home just a slim book on Kazakhstan's history. I regret that we threw all Soviet-time textbooks away”, she says (RUS). Another possible outcome of the officials neglecting their responsibilities and lacking competence is a sad situation around the development of the Kazakh language. As neweurasia's Nurgeldy says, “the urban population prefers using Russian language; re-orientation of the people for state-language is very slow; Russian-speaking population is reluctant to study Kazakh language”.
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