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Kazakhstan: Monuments, Economics, Gender and Media

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The blogosphere of Kazakhstan was not too keen to discuss perturbations in the official government. The traditional May holidays have become a naturally most popular theme, however many other issues were also traced by the bloggers.

Thus, pycm posts a photo of the Eternal Fire monument in Atyrau, a city also called as the Kazakhstan’s oil capital. The Eternal Fire memorials were erected in all major cities of the Soviet Union in commemoration of the victims and soldiers of the WWII. Quite often, and especially in 1990s (years of economic hardships) the flame was not actually burning in the center of the five-point star. But the fresh picture from Atyrau shows that it’s not there again:

“The fire is not burning. The oil capital of Kazakhstan lacks natural gas, memory and conscience”, pycm says [ru].

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