Fugitive oligarchs and theirs allies adventures the more it goes farther the more it becomes the subject of mockery. They’re outrun only by their paid friends and allies in Kazakhstan, who regularly make political clownery with bearing out of bodies and 15 minutes hunger strikes, as well as unity of communists with compradors bourgeoisie and other funny things on stolen money.

However, the most funny is the position of such thieves and criminals, who run away abroad and there they bumped into politics. They say they are innocent victims and fighters for democracy. They are something like a fighters with regime. The most outstanding fighters are: Rakhat Aliev, Mukhtar Ablyazov, Akezhan Kazhegeldin. How heroically they had struggled with regime; one of them in National Security Committee of Kazakhstan and in Presidential Security Services; the other one in BTA bank; the next one in Premier Minister’s chair! How do they were suffering and were tormented at their high ranked positions, sitting at their soft chairs of regime!

How stupid and limited person they must be to believe that it’s forgotten in Kazakhstan who they were, what they did and why were on the run? It’s just unbearable stupidity; and it’s not ended with that. The examples of Ablyazov and Aliev show us that there is no depth to fall they could not overcome.

Rakhat Aliev has become a best seller writer and blabber abroad. He wrote a whole book; he makes some records in his live journal from time to time. He published his lurkins, described such moments of his biography he must not speak out loud. Look at sceniс picture of how he went at the meeting wit president having Dictaphone in his pocket! Just only listen to his story about the moment when Austrian policy tried to take away his pistol, to take a pistol of ambassador, how dare they! … Generally, his scribble has data as for investigation, as for psychiatrist.

In the competition at nonsense Mukhtar Ablyazov is winning obviously. It’s understood, he also writes letters with absurd charges and disclosures, which is the subject of publicly laugh at press; but he opened new depths to fall, he pays his paid friends in Kazakhstan, so they can show political activity and opposition struggle with the regime.

Mukhtar Kabulovich! You must know, we do support you totally. Please, give to your paid friends more money! Raise their salaries in ten or better in twenty times!

Ablyazov’s paid friends represented such kind of people who’s wittingly cannot achieve anything except endless talks and political clownery; they are capable to use up and squander any budget. It’s proved they’re quite simply fooling Ablyazov. Though as they spoil Judas money in Kazakhstan, so the part of stolen by Ablyazov is returning back and working at prosperity growth in Kazakhstan. So, let him spend more money at his paid friends, let he will be busy with this idiotic activity. The farther, the less money he has; the less money remains for lawyers and the sooner Ablyazov will reunite with his homeland. It will be against his will, of course.

Look at these people, who are still trying to teach us how to live.

They would have to settle down somewhere and live on the stolen money under a false passport, like all the others dishonest businessmen and officials who fled from Kazakhstan: Talapker Imanbayev (are you alive?) Nurlan Smagulov, Asanali Zhekebaev, Maksat Edenov and others. These fugitives are bursting with ambitions, they climb into politics, act themselves as «oppositionists» and «democrats.»

Now they’re trying to play in revolution on the wave of events which take place in Kyrgyzstan. Mukhtar Ablyazov expressed his opinion as well as another fugitive announced himself as the leader of Atameken party – Erzhan Dosmukhamedov. They think that if they will get to provoke the revolution so they can return to Kazakhstan with triumph.

If we decided to learn something from the Kyrgyz revolution, it must be learned the following lesson: once upon a time there was outstanding thief and criminal in Kyrgyzstan – Ryspek Aktambayev. Once revolutionary winds cheated in his head, he threw his old criminal activity and plunged into politics: he organized the movement, put the yurts on Ala-Too Square, moved out and even won parliamentary elections. To be true he could not sit down at the deputy chair because he was shot and killed while leaving a mosque in the village of Kok-Zhar near Bishkek in May 10, 2006.

So all the attempts to burn revolution from the part of run fugitives and criminals – it’s the new level of stupidity they trying to learn actively. Revolutionary leaders don’t keep vegetarian ways of power struggle, as the world practice shows us. If Ablyazov and Dosmukhametov will burn the revolution they become its victims. Even if they will get somebody to power then their protégé will shoot them with the first opportunity. He will do it and then he will say to people something in the spirit of “Ablyazov, he’ll say, made suicide”, for example, he tied his hands and shot himself with the machine gun in the back.

Such perspective of burning the revolution all fugitives are better to give up and served jail time but then to live in piece; and then the fugitives have an opportunity to live until old age and to see great-grandchildren.

Hashish is Bohemian drug, glue is drug of children from unilluminated streets

Toxic

Some spiritual searcher from Kazakhstan have smoked weed on Puna town cemetery in midnight, and realized the Meaning of Existence. Obviously in the morning he forgot it again. Then he complained to the friends about low quality of Indian marihuana from very India. If he could have the domestic product, the Meaning of Existence would surely keep with him. Whatever onу could say, but Kazakh made marihuana is certainly competitive.

Among three basic kinds of hemp (sowing, Indian and weed) only Indian one represents genuine narcotic interest. Of course, if desired one also can extract psychoactive substance of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) from sowing hemp, which is used to industrial production of fibres, cellulose and foodstuff (hemp oil, aromatic hemp extract). But compared to its content with Indian hemp is the same things like irrigating your garden from a well, when you have a river nearby.

In Kazakhstani part of Chu valley there are around 135, 000 hectares of wild-growing hemp. How many among it is Indian is hard to estimate, but the main thing is that it is growing in Miracle valley. Kyrgyzstan share in this natural area is around 30, 000 hectares, and thus it is on surface that’s got the main raw supply. In administrative-territorial terms the wilds of narcotic containing hemp are spread in seven districts of Zhambyl region of Republic of Kazakhstan, each of those in terms of space is relatively close to a half of Lebanon.

A typical feature: when you speaking to local authorities’ representatives as a journalist, they are unanimously stating that hemp on territories under their jurisdiction is not snoozing, as opposite to what is growing on their neighbors’ territory. And when you dealing with local commons (and its main consumers in the same time) then they are usually praising particularly local products.

Stance to cannabis in Kazakhstan is extremely ambiguous. From one side, it is a pure narcotic; from the other, anasha, hashish and other “grass” are not irreparably harming physical health and social connectivity, as heroin do: and if it leads to such result, then not only for one or two years. Generally, according to researchers from British magazine Lancet, marijuana is holding 11th place among deleterious narcotic substances (alcohol and tobacco are on 5th and 9th place respectively). That’s why from one side one witnessing annual and international police operations such as Channel, and from other side – satellite pictures, which are forcing to doubts about wilderness of Chu hemp. It can be seen even from space that local people are implementing irrigational tasks to establish agricultural supply to wild cannabis.

Drug-dealing in Kazakhstan is double layered. On top, heroin, layer there are broken lives, miseries and tragedies, huge finance, drug kings, corrupted policemen and authorities. Lower, marijuana, level is sort of carnival. There are wisdom, communication, laughing, cosmic vibrations reactions and modified reality in there. Obviously, you can’t avoid personal dramas, but destinies here are braking clearly not in industrial scales, as on heroin layer or neighboring structure of massive alcoholization of people. If to estimate this from financial measures, then heroin layer is big players, and marijuana is small and medium business.

However, even narcotic small and medium business is dry behind the ears and steadily looking forward in the future. Taking at least the story with Kazakhstani-German joint venture, which must have been processing Indian hemp into various fibers, isolating materials and paper, also replacing drug-containing cannabis on industrial one, i.e. non-intoxicating. In 2002 on this event dedicated press-conferences they were speaking about thousands of new working places in Southern regions of Kazakhstan straightly and about tenth thousands by multiplication effect. And somebody even believed that.

What’s the matter? German officers’ uniforms were made from hempen fibers of very good quality during second world war (Hitler was low on resources including cotton and wool, using what was at hand). Until the moment, when United Convention of UN by year of 1961 on banning cannabis there were tenth of factories working on this profile. During 90’s German government had approved reestablishment of hemping industry, and to 00’s it’ been sowed for 4 thousand hectares, with over 30 processing plants. That’s why theoretically it could have been believed that from 2005 a similar process can be started in Kazakhstan too; but only theoretically. The year 2010 outside is proving it quite transparent.

From point of reason it would be obviously better, if familymen in Chu valley would have work on hemp paper plants, and not hanging around unemployed on roads, and not rolling a joint (weed in mouthpiece cigarettes instead of token out tobacco). But from two trends the stronger won, i.e. narcotic. They say that this route leads to nowhere, but it is hard to lose it. The more that even in fed years the state money to avoid this route was reliably shared among corrupted officials; in crisis times there are no finance for it. And if it w

While the government and development institutes are trying to play off cement factories for examples oа implementation of advanced technologies and complicated industries, it is already working in cannabis sector. At that without any support from state and budget finance. If to remove cannabiologic enthusiasts, then it is just a response reaction on purchasing power. Thus, hydroponics.

Hydroponics (hydra, ponika, parsley, turkey etc.) is slang name for marijuana with high content of Tetrahydrocannabiol and psychoactive contents, grown without soil in nutrient liquid, typically under intensive artificial lightening. As a matter of fact, when in 90’s the government paid attention to hydroponics, then it was sorted out to supply tomatoes, cucumbers and greens to regions with poor soils – Karaganda, Mangistau. But somehow vegetable hydroponics never made it, although no good soils happened in those bad regions. But hydra and ponika are growing up very intensively, even despite the presence of huge natural area in terms of cannabis bushes of Chu valley and generally stabile supplies of it.

There are also handymen who are achieving narcotic qualities higher than natural even without hydroponics, i.e. growing it in soil, but with artificial lightening too. One of my colleagues assured me that the second option is even more honest, since hydroponics is too much affected. He also named a lot of very loud names, from moviemakers to journalists, who are smoking a number of joints every day for the matter of it. However it’s an open secret. Besides, Moscow bohemia knows what Kazakhstani weed is and are love to be given some on any occasion.

Beer consumption per person in Kazakhstan is two times lower than in neighboring Russia. If to compare with Germany and Czech, then the difference will be ten times more. By consumption of vodka Kazakh people are far from leaders. Instead, they are selling perfect weed by glasses, whereas in Omsk, over-the-border Russian city – by matchboxes. At that any consumer is afraid to by Chechen sorts instead of Ganja blend. Cannabis trading and quality culture is on higher level; it is in the same league as Kyrgyzstan – when they selling Issyk-Kol weed, they are responsible for that. In times of Russian Empire Omsk was administrative center of Steppe country, thus informal capital of Kazakhstan, but situation with glasses and matchboxes by prices of glasses is showing that this unity connection is broken. There was even a case there, when group of intermediates from Kazakhstan ( let’s call them this way), being in a visit to their relatives, was being on mutiny and materialized a true militiaman from fear, who checked everybody’s passports and then disappeared; because all of this are illusions.

It’s like surfing. Sliding between consciousness and unconsciousness on cheerful and capricious snake Cannabis. In Netherlands it is discriminalized. In Italy it is allowed to carry no more than 40 joints with you. In germany since 1995 there is Cannabusiness exhibition. But in Kazakhstan Cannabusines can bee seen only on MIA special stands. Maybe it should be staying like this. Or maybe it is worth legalizing? Because it is absolutely impossible to convince anybody in this question by any means, let it is stay for personal and group opinion. When a pupil is ready, a teacher sees him.

Most of Kazakhstan’s long-fingered gentry with the law at their heels is on the run these days. Top figure among the alleged white-collar criminals is Mukhtar Ablyazov, the former head of Bank TuranAlem who is believed to have created much of the multi-billion hole the troubled bank is faced with today. While he leads a lavish life as an exile in London’s plush, his long-time associate and as prosecutors think brother in crime Mukhtar Dzhakishev is firmly behind bars, waiting for trial. Victims of political turmoil in Kazakhstan’s top state circles — as both accused and their advocates affirm? Looking at facts and figures, the argument seems hard to hold.

There is little doubt that personal relationships between the two Mukhtars goes back to Soviet days. Both studied at the Moscow Institute for Physics Engineering at the time of Gorbachov and according to several reports were roommates at the students’ dormitory. Both got their degree in 1990, on the eve of the break-up of the Soviet Union, and returned to Kazakhstan the next year. Both of them appeared to look for opportunities to do what many of their Russian peers tried to do — in some cases at least for a while successfully — and gather enough political clout in the new regimes under formation to take control of former Soviet assets future ownership of which was far from clear.

As for Dzhakishev, his career started with the post as finance director of an oil- , gas- and mining-related joint stock company for logistics and infrastructure by the name of Butya in 1992. Later on, he made it general director and eventually president of the enterprise. In 1997 he became president of AlauTransGaz, which runs part of Kazakhstan’s gas pipeline network. In 1998, he reached the summit of his career by becoming the head of KazAtomProm, the inheritor of Kazakhstan’s atomic industry. His function brought him to the post of deputy minister for energy and mineral resources in 2001. He was to leave politics and return to KazAtomProm the following year. Back in his seat, he started building up a high profile by freely talking to journalists and becoming very visible in Kazakhstan’s plush entertainment circles for the rich.

His endeavour made him, among other things, a world celebrity. “Dzhakishev, 44 years old, is a rare breed: a Moscow-educated entrepreneur who took over a floundering mining industry — and the world’s largest uranium deposit outside Australia — when the Soviets broke camp here,” America’s business glamour magazine wrote about him back in March 2008. “Now, after three years of skyrocketing uranium prices, he has found himself at the forefront of a global uranium boom that is fast making him one of the most powerful men in the country — and increasingly influential beyond it. Kazakhstan’s ascendancy is far from assured, but Dzhakishev, described by colleagues as Kasparov-sharp and poker-faced, makes it sound as if he already has it all wrapped up. […] In the past few months Dzhakishev has gone on a high-profile international deal-signing tear, landing agreements aimed at transforming Kazatomprom from an obscure Third World mining group to a full-fledged, integrated nuclear energy powerhouse. […] ‘It’s been honeymoon, honeymoon, honeymoon,’ he gloats.”

“Kazatomprom has a reputation for integrity, but Dzhakishev has faced questions about his personal dealings,” Fortune’s article reads further down. “He was a groomsman at the wedding of Nazarbayev’s son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev, now accused of kidnapping and corruption, charges he has denied. Last spring former Parliament member Tatyana Kvyatkovskaya accused Dzhakishev of funneling some of Kazakhstan’s net uranium worth to offshore accounts or obscure foreign interests. Dzhakishev also raised eyebrows when some of his mines ended up in the hands of financier Frank Giustra, founder of Lionsgate Films and a friend of Bill Clinton. Giustra’s group acquired a large share of two big uranium mines from a Kazakh investment group headed by Moukhtar Ablyazov, a former Energy Minister. It seems Ablyazov purchased the deposits from Kazatomprom when uranium prices were in the gutter. Ablyazov profited handsomely, as did Giustra, when Canadian company UrAsia subsequently acquired the properties. Dzhakishev says all his business dealings have been legitimate.”

Apart from such warning assigns, however, Mukhtar Dzhakiyev’s grand lifestyle did not raise too many eyebrows at the time. But looking back, if investigators have a point, Dzhakishev seems to have embezzled uranium mines and deposits in pretty much the same manner Ablyazov allegedly funneled cash out of the country. Or did Ablyazov lure the state-employed flash-manager into his web? Whatever the case — a web it was — meaning a web of offshore firms was installed to shroud legal ownership of them in veils. The names of five assets thus put into the shadow are known: Akdala, Southern Inkay, Central Mynkuduk, Kyzylkum and Khorasan. All of them are located in the deep south of Kazakhstan near the border with Uzbekistan, and together they are thought to account for 60 per cent of KazAtomProm’s total asset value. The eye-opener came much later, when in April 2009 a member of Parliament used her immunity to take a closer look at the books of KazAtomProm. In this way, Tatyana Kvyatkovskaya found out that Betpak Dala, an offshore holding allegedly personally controlled by the tandem Dzhakishev/Ablyazov, had been sold major stakes in the fields of Akdala, South Inkai and Khorassan for the hilarious total som of 64,000 Kazakh tenge — or 426 US dollar at the time. She passed the information on to the authorities — but not without presenting them at a press conference in the process.

The curtain fell for Dzhakishev in the last week of May this year, when he was sacked as head of KazAtomProm and arrested before he got a chance to flee from the country. Only over the summer, details about his clandestine network of offshore firms started to come out in the open. Among the transactions under investigation figures the Central Mynkuduk deposit, estimated worth in the order of 75 million US dollar in historic value, which was transferred to an offshore shell company called Ken Dala Kz, under control of Dzhakishev. The same happened with the nearby Kyzylkum deposit, which was eventually sold to a western-held company called UrAsia for the equivalent of hardly more than a hundred thousand US dollar. UrAsia in turn was bought out by Canada-based global uranium miner Uranium One for $75 million. It is now generally assumed that UrAsia in reality paid a lot more for the assets, with the difference having been channeled out of the country by Dzhakishev with the help of BTA’s Mukhtar Ablyazov and the latter’s associates. At present, Uranium One owns 30 per cent in the deposit which it bought through UrAsia for the mentioned 75 million dollar. A Japanese consortium owns 40 per cent with the remaining shares in the hands of KazAtomProm.

The association between Dzhakishev and Ablyazov brings a third player in Kazakhstan’s Shakespearian business drama to mind. Prosecutors are reportedly looking into the sum of $670,000 which at one point disappeared from BTA’s accounts only to pop up at the local account of KazAtomProm’s Vienna office. That office used to headed by the spouse of Vadim Koshlyak, a close associate of Rakhat Aliyev, then Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Austria until he was disclosed not only as a straightforward gangster but also as having prepared an armed coup in Kazakhstan. According to Kazakh news media, the mother of Elnara Shorazova, whom Aliyev married after his imposed divorce from President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s eldest daughter Dariga, was later appointed as the head of this office. If there is a scheme there as investigators believe there is, the dimension becomes sinister for Ablyazov and Dzhakishev and would turn them from suspects of white-collar crime into suspected accomplices of murder and political terror.

As for Dzhakishev, he has denied any wrongdoing whatsoever from the very moment of his arrest. His statements from prison filtered through to the public domain look diffuse. On one hand, he denies any involvement in kickbacks; on the other, he tends to suggest that if he did pass on Central Mynkuduk to UrAsia, he did so with the aim to grant westerners a stake in the deposit at the expense of Russian companies. The latter, they argued, would do anything in their power to prevent Kazakhstan from developing its own nuclear processing industry and keep it under control as a mere supplier of uranium. If there has been some truth in this wave of patriotism, it could well explain the role of an American lobby led by a high-flying maverick businessman by the name of Frank Giustra and no one less than former President Bill Clinton, with whom Dzhakishev stood in close contact. It does not look as though this has impressed Uranium One, since in June this year they bartered 19.95 per cent of their common stock against a 50 per cent stake in the operator of the Karatau deposit with Russia’s RosAtom subsidiary Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ). “Uranium One has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 50% interest in the Karatau Uranium Mine in Kazakhstan from ARMZ,” a press release dated June 15 read. “The purchase price will be paid by way of the issuance of 117 million common shares of Uranium One and a cash payment of $90 million (or equivalent promissory note). The agreement also provides for a contingent payment to ARMZ of up to $60 million, payable in three equal tranches over the period between 2010 and 2012 subject to certain post-closing tax related adjustments. The transaction is valued at approximately $451 million, based on the closing share price of Uranium One on June 12, 2009. […] Upon closing of the Karatau acquisition, ARMZ will hold an indirect 16.6% interest in Uranium One. ARMZ has agreed to a standstill covenant under which it may not, without Uranium One’s prior consent, for a period of at least five years from closing acquire more than 19.95% of Uranium One’s outstanding common shares.” On November 16 this year, the Kazakh government reportedly approved the deal, which was eventually clinched on December 15.

While sitting on about 15 per cent of the world’s uranium resources while nuclear energy is slowly coming back into vogue, KazAtomProm will be able to recover from financial losses suffered even though it is unlikely that a substantial part of the embezzled money can be traced back — let alone recuperated. Now under the command of economy and industry minister Vladimir Shkolnik, the company still aims at bringing Kazakhstan on top of the list of world uranium miners. The country’s output has gone steadily up from 5,279 tonne in 2006 to 6,637 tonne in 2007 and from there to 8,621 the following year. For this year, the target has been set at 13,800 and for the upcoming year at 15,000 tonne. Adding another 4,000 tonne would turn Kazakhstan into the world’s leader. Global output currently stands at around 40,000 tonne per annum. According to recent calculations by Kazatomprom, the breakdown of that amount over 2009 is projected to include 11,000 tons in Canada, 9,430 tons in Australia and 12,800 tons in Kazakhstan.

The figures shed a weird light on the case against Dzhakishev, against whom on December 15 this year formal charges were filed of having embezzled the equivalent of 670,000 US dollar. At the same time, with benchmark prices for uranium currently standing at 45,000 pound Sterling per tonne on the London market, Kazakhstan’s 2010 uranium output target would bring the overall revenue in the order of well over a billion US dollar. Looking at proven reserves in currently operative deposits (see table), which add up to the order of 1.5 million metric tonne of which 637,000 are under operation, existing operative and prospective assets should be priced at 67.5 billion and around 30 billion Sterling respectively in gross output sales value and given low production costs at not less than 70 per cent of those amounts in net value. Given the proportions of Dzhakiyev’s kickback schemes, $670,000 is an incredibly modest sum indeed.

This can only mean that there is still a lot hidden which prevents to unravel the overall scheme that is supposed to have taken place concerning KazAtomProm with all its players. Only once the entire volume of the scheme will have been established one can measure the threat to Kazakhstan’s economy, and, since sensitive atomic industry is involved, its public safety. The enterprise, which is listed at Kazakhstan’s Almaty Stock Exchange (KASE) has not reported any results, which according to regulations it should have, since October 2006. Trade in shares and bonds has been put on halt as a result. In their latest reports, Moody’s and Fitch have rated the company Baa3 and BBB- respectively, both near the bottom of the scale, with “negative” outlook. With only just over a billion US dollar worth in assets, regaining investors’ confidence must be on top of the agenda, but in reality it looks a long way off.

KAZATOMPROM’S KEY FINANCIALS AS OF OCTOBER 1, 2006
(in million Kazakh tenge)

KAZAKHSTAN’S PRESENT OPERATIVE URANIUM DEPOSITS

*) including Toshiba, TEPCO, Chubu, Tohoku, Kyushu and Marubeni
**) non-declared, based on current output capacity and a 25-year life-span
source: Reuters

Is there any kind of opposition in Kazakhstan? Of course it is. In usual way an opposition, according to cannon of genre, should struggle for power. For that reason it needs wide support from masses in every possible way. However, from year to year this support is not being given. But the opposition itself and, what’s even more important, on personal level, is virtually the same. And, what’s not leaveing the scenes in it, as in the whole country, social elevator is not moving properly good. Recently, because of the “Chinese-land” topic, because of throwing in “wiretaps” and other leaks, organized by new abroad centers of the opposition (Kazhegeldin is appearing to be archaic on their background) the Kazakhstani oppositional thrash has been revived. Among loud statements, rallies behind Sary-Arka cinema, usual in any kind and frustrated hunger strikes it is quite logical (and yet again!) the rhetorical question is aroused: what they are reckoning on?

It has been said not once nor twice, and concrete examples were made, that the oppositional parties in Kazakhstan are extremely unpopular among its citizens. The results of parliament elections have shown that the oppositional parties could not only gain large support, but even can’t mobilize its own members. They couldn’t even consolidate, despite multiple attempts to establish united opposition. Alas, there are too many leaders for small opposition, and every one of them wants to have own portion of fame and laurels. Also it can be said that the oppositionists are the people who lost all possible chances to win.

What are the reasons of their faults?

Firstly, there is no one among them, which authority would be indisputable for most part of Kazakhs. One can sort all of the leaders and see that no one could handle. Serikbolsyn Abdildyn, the leader of the communists, couldn’t become a leader in the country, in which the communists were tormented half of the nation some time ago. Comrade Abdildyn is a wonderful person, but his ideology works agains him. Popularity of Mukhtar Shakhanov was earlier more connected to ethnical-cultural sphere: he is famous Kazakh-language poet. In terms of politics his presidency in notorious Comission on 1986 events could be his asset. Nowadays he become largely famous as national patriotic leader. But namely this way can turn out to be huge political fiasco for him, considering ambiguousness of his behavior and statements, which he was demonstrating in the period of “Witch hunt”, suffered by Kazakhstani society after notorious December 1986. If to recall this memory in public opinion, then even his activity among abovementioned Comission would appear in different light. Zharmakhan Tuyakbay is also doesn’t provoking sympathies both by his prosecutor’s past and present appearance of oppositional Agashka. Bulat Abilov is hardly perceived seriously by anybody and image of Butya and his grand commercial failure has been confirmed with him. The other personalities, such as Vladimir Kozlov, recently loud Ermek Narymbetov and many others are also no good for role of national authoritative, an expressionist of thoughts and wishes of Kazakhstani people – scales of personalities are not proper.

What is pleasant, that more and more oppositionists are starting to realize that and moving into filed, in which they can be more useful than in oppositional thrash. For instance, Oraz Dzhandosov has gone from the politics; some say that he is engaged in scientific researches. Asylbek Kozhakhmetov has returned to educational business.

Thus, the place of national authority, ruler of Kazakh’s thoughts, is yet free. And without such person comparable by scales with personality of Makhatma Ghandi, the opposition couldn’t win.

Secondly, as Lenin said, “they are tremendously far from the people“. The opposition is standing for the people only by words. The business is that they not paying any kind of particular attention to the needs of masses, even if those needs are popping up sharply close to their offices in Almaty. Regional problems are dreaming about their attention. There tens of examples, in which the opposition stayed deaf to the needs of the nation. There are numerous sharp social problems over Kazakhstani lands, which are exist in every region and every city without unexceptionally. But the opposition isn’t coming to the needs of the people.

The people are feeling it with intuition; feeling that oppositional speeches are not about them. And for that reason they not give sympathies and support. It is better to support no one than to support inveterate blabbers. The gathering of oppositional functionaries, which are unchanging for many years, by itself can’t come to the people – too deep is an abyss between them and the people. Only and authority of national scale can bring the opposition to the people, but there is no such person among the opposition.

Thirds, widely recognized runaways – Rakhat Aliev and Mukhtar Ablyazov – are saying that they are too allegedly the opposition to the regime. This point of view is widely duplicated in press. However, Kazakhstani opposition is not refusing to have something common with it, and not splitting even with the same Rakhat Aliev. But they, by the reason of keeping its own political reputation, should be in first row of blamers of Aliev. But there is no such thing! From this eloquent fact it is allowed to make a conclusion, that Kazakhstani opposition has nothing against such partnership and allies. We wouldn’t say that they have the connection with Aliev (now Shoraz apparently) or Ablyazov – it is hard to be proved. It is enough that they not refusing and not protesting against its mixing up with them.

And now who, being in compos mentis, would support a movement, which has no authoritative leader, deaf to needs and wishes of the nation, and also not refusing Mukhtar Ablyazov and the rest of runaway oligarchs? There aren’t many fowlers appearing, which is shown in the results of elections in the parliament and meetings.

Then what Kazakstani opposition is reckoning on? In light of said things only one answer could be given – they are praying on miracle. There is nothing more that it can reckon on.

There must be no half-responsibility in governance: it is fatally leading to hiding expenses and non-execution of laws.

Napoleon I

Degradation of state management in Kazakhstan has actually crossed a red line, behind which starts a direct threat to sustainability of the country. As a matter of fact, three or four years ago situation wasn’t looked horribly different, but then the country had plenty of oil dollars and situation could be handled under control if without skills but with bigger resources. Now though there aren’t both, and unsolvable problems developed among latest years are growing like a snowball rolling down from hill.

If to look to the economy, then there are two options of state utilization of finance. First is when somewhat perspective development has been shouted out loud (brown coal to oil products mini processing refineries, or fibers production on the basis of cannabis fields from Chu river valley), after what nothing happens and everything is quietly dying on paper. The second option is supposing finishing construction of industry object (bio-ethanol, silicon or satellite launch), but then it is not working too. And at one point you can’t even say of the top of your head, which of these models is more harmful.

During “roaring 90’s” the country was tight on finance, and “no money” formula had removed off a major part of overall situation responsibility from authorities. However, when money came during happy 00’s, and came plenty, nothing has changed in effectiveness of state machine working. Controversially, the scales of peculation in comparatively moderate country started to boggle imagination.

Big money brought new problems descending from fullness. Colossal affairs in realty sector, connected with land parcels, cheated shareholders and mortgagers were performed sometimes below noses and sometimes with direct participation of competent state authorities, law-enforcement agencies and law courts. Disability and reluctance of state machinery to protect loyal tax-payers and smallholders from various cheaters has largely annoyed people. One part of citizens came on path of vigorous protests, the other felled into apathy, which is too very negative.

There was written much and detailed about corruption in Kazakhstani state machine, but on this point what is principally, is that for many years there wasn’t any antidote found to fight this lingering and massive disease. When Singapore governor Lee Kuan Yew was asked about how he managed to destroy the corruption in Chinese country, he told the formula: “I gave orders to shoot several close friends of mine, and the rest got everything properly”. Nobody was shot for corruption crimes in Kazakhstan, but releasing from positions and putting in jail is quite often situation these days. However, it didn’t give any positive effect. Vice versa, by witnessing a removal of one or another bureaucratic rival other members of state machinery are starting to steal with double energy. That’s why, seemingly, after all a Singaporean method should be implemented – to shoot relatives and friends.

Explaining the reasons of corruption in the republic, many are often pointing on small amounts of authorities’ salaries. But there are a massive of examples that counts, when clerks in private companies are working for the same money or even less; at that they work hard, effective and responsibly. Thus the factor of salary explains nothing by itself.

Authorities are making people angry not only by their ineffectiveness or small effectiveness, but on strictly behavioral level. Surveys are witnessing that people are outraged by arrogant and swinish manners of state machine representatives, especially in city halls. On this subject it is worth to mention that in majority of private companies, where employees have comparable volumes of salary, their clients are serviced pretty politely. But state service in its present appearance gives somehow different cultural paradigm. And if somebody will slaughter some city hall, then this man will be granted with informal sympathy from common people.

Impotence of state structures in struggle with monopolies and monopolism is for a long time an item of anger. There are no mechanisms and levers which can influence appetites of monopolists somehow. Despite that whether monopolies are natural, unnatural or artificial, they utilizing their situation by maximum using all possibilities. As the result petrol prices in Kazakhstan are higher than ones in US, although the country is exporting oil, not importing. Prices of internet services are only less than in Saudi Arabia. Companies in some regions are paying for water and electricity by stakes on the level of Western Europe. Overall, on top of that penny-ante salaries of the nation are strongly losing its purchasing powers from such realities.

As well as sea reflects in a drop of water, just as by the example of grain harvest 2009 can show systematical problems of state management in Kazakhstan. The harvest succeeded records. Kazakhstani wheat is considered as a benchmark in the whole world and demand on it is always more than volumes of its production. In other words, no matter how much crops are being produced on our fields, there is always a buyer for it. However, the crops weren’t harvested in a full scale. As always, during harvesting period prices on fuel had risen sharply, and massive of farmers just didn’t want to harvest its production in its disadvantage. Not many farmers could store harvested production, since both elevator and barn facilities haven’t enough storage space. And from what was stored, significant volumes weren’t sold because of lack of crop-carrying railcars. At that, on authorities’ papers everything looks fine – fuel sold for lowered prices and plenty of elevators and railcars.

Even in territorial terms the authorities are living separately from the rest of the country by many things. Their city is Astana. Not only employees of ministries and city halls can be reckoned among authorities, but officers of state owned holdings and national (state) companies. Even specialist couldn’t find five differences between middle officer from ministry of power and mineral resources and similar employee of KazMunaiGaz. All of them are living in somewhat paradigm of relations and reproducing a specific environment around them. For instance, in this environment all of impulses are going from top to bottom, whereas in the country conventional direction is from bottom to top (thus from common people to the government). For purpose to gather unsanctioned protest action, the opposition is bounded to get people from Almaty.

And the situation is more and more worsening. Nowadays the authorities are out of practice to solve technological problems (transport, postal services, electricity and water supply), which during 30’s of 20’s century were solved here in Kazakhstan by advanceв international levels. As an illustration: there is only one boy in the country suffering from severe form of hemophilia, and all the ministry of public health together with city hall of his residency place for years can’t solve the problem for him with life-and-death pharmaceuticals.

Our law-enforcement and supervisor agencies deserve a special chapter. All of these – Defense Ministry, CNS, MIA, prosecutor offices, Financial Police (oh, this FinPol…), courts, correctional facilities – are making people suffer no less than from other structures. We wouldn’t give any examples as they will take too much place. We will tell only one thing – all of security officials are corrupted, but the more terrible thing is that they put professional skills on payroll of their own greed. And in this case it is even more terrible than deprofessionalization.

There is a Persian parable: dying wealthy father invited his young and only son and heir. Told him that he demising him everything he gave permission to sell all of his lands, but not to sell the house in any possible case. Whether if he will waste everything, then in a special room there is a beam with rope winded around and a bench – let he climb on it and hang himself better than live in a poverty. As parent supposed, his son wasted every coin in company of dissolute idlers, and time came to hang. But the beam was broken under his weight, and ten thousand dinars dropped out of it. Careful father had foreseen everything. And his son understood the price for the money and lived his following life moderately.

It is time to bring our state management system to normal condition. The more the “gold in a beam” in form of natural resources is still here, and global prices on it are restoring. It is time to implement electivity of mayors of all levels, since the authorities which don’t care about quality of state management in front of the people showed their total inability to care about everything at all. Yet akims changing among themselves and minions of trenchermen accompanying them were successful only in terms of corporate raids on new territories under their control. Otherwise, as elders of soviet, almost fairytale, era said, “there aren’t any irreplaceable persons”. Among all executive vertical.

A beauty of life consists of small things

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In globalization era Kazakhstan became an arena of competition for various direction and flows in all spheres of local life. In politics the authoritarian East is winning, in fashion – the democratic West, in cars – Germany and Eastern Japan are holding parity, and in fast food the East is winning.

For almost two decades the whirlpools of globalization are mastering steppes of Kazakhstan. However, the McDonald’s couldn’t fight any significant niche for itself here. Taste habits and culture of catering gave garland to Chinese (lagman and ganfan) and Turkish systems of fast-food. Japanese sushi and Italian pizza are also took its niche. Chachlyk and Uzbek pilaf, samsa, meat pasty and manty, which are traditional for these lands, have kept and even strengthen its positions somewhere. However, it can be said about Chinaization as a tendency in Kazakhstani food services.

The heart of Kazakhstan is still Almaty. Its sizes, geographical position, ethnic composition and financial resources established an amazing variety of culinary and gastronomy possibilities for the city. This effect that the only metropolis of Kazakhstan staggers with cosmopolitism and delicacy of its catering.

The list of the basic cuisines of Almaty is already huge. It contains Kazakh, Russian (including Soviet), what is called European, because it represents a variety of products and dishes, which are traditionally perceived as French salads, German sausages, Italian pizza and other European cuisines. To the South of metropolis is Central Asia with its pilaf and other typical viands. To the East is Eastern Turkestan, and there are Uyghur and Dungun foods. Far to the sunrise are Chinese and Korean cuisines. Chachlyk is allegedly a Caucasian attribute, but in Almaty it is perceived as immanently (internally) belonging to city’s catering.

Of those, which comparatively recently were brought by the winds of globalization, are Japanese, Indian, Mexican, Argentinean (grilled meat) and Cuban cuisines. Turkish one is supposedly novice here, but wide spreading of doner-kebab is more and stronger including itself into usual menu of Almaty citizens. The names of cafés, restaurants and night clubs are looking like geographical reference: Salvador, Venice, Borodino, Cuba, Versailles, Beijing, Dublin and many others.

Since each certain cuisine has its list of beverages, then Almaty has assortment to be proud of. From Ukrainian gorilka and Scotch to Georgian wine and French cognac. At that, many elements of different cuisines are easily combinable. For instance, Dungun salty beans and Czech beer. Judging by the number of fish courses you too can’t say that major part of the country is situated in arid zone and there is no entrance to open sea.

However, such huge variety is already leading to the fact, that number of natives is expressing alarm over the destiny of Kazakh cuisine, which proportion is gradually decreasing. An inconceivable phenomenon to 19’s century appeared – Kazakhs-vegans, Kazakhs, whose organism can’t process lactose and they can’t properly consume milk products. This herein, that meat, milk and dough – a pillars of Kazakh traditional cuisine. During the famine of 1930’s many Kazakhs died including for the reason that they haven’t enough ferments in their digestive systems to get nutrient materials from vegetable food, when they were deprived of meat and milk.

If to speak about modern menu in Kazakhstani catering, then it can be stated about loss of ethnical identity over foods. Of course, traditional course called Beshbarmak, natural products such as Kazy, Karta, Zhaya, Shuzhuk (horse sausages) weren’t extinguished ouf of consuming (and they hardly will), but many other things are changing. A pat of Kazakhs are already don’t take troubles cooking Beshbarmak, but inviting guests to the restaurant with such menu instead. There is also more retreat of canons in its preparation.

The situation is paradoxical, but it is impossible to buy Kumys and Shubat, traditional Kazakh milk beverages, in Kazakhstan. It is similar if one couldn’t order wine in any restaurant in France, whiskey in Ireland or vodka in Russia. It is easy to reference on imperfectability of local economical model, which is not encouraging any production; but if the demand would be firm and solvent, then it would be enough offers.

On this point it can be stated about globalization of taste preferences. Indeed the same Japanese sushi appeared to be competitive far abroad of its country of origin. However, another reminder about favors: Kebab won its place in the sun in Almaty and other cities, whereas McDonalds not. Kazakhstani consumers prefer a rich meat to semi-finished products, because they have a lot less part of chopped meat, sausages with various fillers and other products of meat processing. The more meat is close to initial condition, the more chances that a dish would be acknowledged.

There are own remarkable points in Kazakhstan. The best place to buy doner-kebab is near Jubilee store in Almaty. It is better to buy tandyr samsa on Arharly mountain pass between Almaty and Taldykorgan.

If to look on abundance of draught beer shops over the metropolis, many wouldn’t believe that only a hundred years ago the majority of Kazakhstan’s population didn’t knew about this hopped beverage. And let Kazakhstan is obviously not Czech Republic or Germany in terms of beer consumption, but still the arrearage between the countries is gradually decreasing.

Happily for locals, Kazakhstan isn’t situated on main routes of genetically modified meats, which are fulfilled with growth hormones . but those who tried such beefsteaks abroad stating that you can just as well chew rubber sole of a boot.

Obviously, catering in Kazakhstan is changing, as it’s with favors, but all of this is going gradually, without breakthroughs. The core is still a meat, which is drifting to the side of more vegetable foods, fish and seafood. As a matter of fact, fast food is hardly connected with traditional Kazakh tableful, where people used to eat long and appropriately. However, the speed of modern life is dictating its rules. Wherever it is, kebabs and lagman are continuing to won over hamburgers and hot-dogs.

For those Kazakh journalists, who by virtue of number of consequences allowing themselves straight opposition to everything happening within the country, salting an open wound under the nickname Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DCK) in anniversary of establishment of this social movement in political space of our country, became a habit. And it is again, memories been recalled as soon as eights anniversary appeared of the thing, which in some circles is considered as invalid coup attempt, while other are coming to feeling, that in this coup virtually everything had absolutely not that honorable and unselfish rush, but had been driven by more close-to-ground motivations. This time straightly oppositional journalists (who are still believe in Kazhegeldin) of Azattyk radio station, in connection with overwhelming nostalgia about Democratic Chice of Kazakhstan political party of 2001 model, took out and put Rakhat Aliev in front of microphone, hero of the eight-year-old occasion of some sorts. As the journalist, who made production of the interview on Azattyk radio website, stated, initially they planned to salt an open wound in the composition of impressive delegation, which would open discussion about DCK in virtual mode. In such case not less than Rakhat Aliev would appear on the onу side of the barrier, and anyone who can take the trouble on the other side would be granted to dirt him, starting from partaigenosse Abilov.

(on picture: on snowy January of 2002 famous “circus” meeting of “democratic society”under the auspices of ВСЛ and former owner of the building Mukhtar Ablyazov took place there)

However, Kazakhstani opposition in its mass declined to meet Aliev even on virtual ground (where you actually don’t meet anybody, but sitting in a chair, drinking coffee and typing captious questions), seemingly because of fear of Astana displeasure and corridor slanders: something like “oh, they met this prick once again, dirt You-Know-Who altogether”.

Thus, only Rakhat Aliev got into reporter’s hands, who gave testimony concerning November 2001 Case circumstances. We have no intensions to quote his incoherent fantasies, but only give short retelling of outcast’s version.

So, Rakhat Aliev is assured or trying to assure the reporter who is sold cause to Kazhegeldin, that DCK is a benefit of strategic way of thinking of now-deceased Altynbek Sarsenbayev, who thought of creating analogy of Russian Union of Right Wing Forces in Kazakhstan. The idea was approved, and Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan was granted right to exist. On this very much to the point Rakhat failed somewhere (motivations of characters over Aliev’s version were not included at all), and that’s the reason why newly-established DCK was set on him, using mass-media and parliament tribune.

The attack was successful – Aliev was appointed on ambassador’s post in Austria, and You-Know-Who started to demolish DCK. At this point a quote, characterizing this entire phantasmagoria after the real events, couldn’t be avoided: “the other question, that president Nazarbayev on some moment couldn’t handle this movement, and in connection with this he aimed his influence and power to set themselves against each other…” Frankly, we see Mordor and the eye of Sauron, which is ruling DCK leaders’ minds, forcing them to eat each other in political struggle. Just why, with all unprecedented possibilities, initial control over politicians behavior was lost – is unclear.

Assuming our own version as commentary in common line of what happened in 2001.

DCK was really could be established as political project by Altynbek Sarsenbayev. At least, the whole idea to reach significant targets through political field, which are more to concern huge finance, is quite could belong to him. To November 2001 there was threatening situation appeared in field of large businesses of Kazakhstan – the most attractive objects were might go under control of formerly considered as almighty deputy of the chair of CNS Rakhat Aliev. Appropriate proposals, as it are known from press of those times and memoirs of particular participants of those events, were received by Mukhtar Ablyazov, the owner of Turan_alem Bank, and Nurzhan Subkhanberdin from Kazkommertsbank. Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, being mayor of Pavlodar district, in his stand tried to counterstand Aliev’s stranglehold on vodka market. In short, begun to enjoy as early as in fiscal policy times, in KNS Rakhat Aliev continued what was started unrestrained corporate raid with gargantuan speeds. The first string of Democratic Choice is confirming version that this political union was established to protect interests of clearly financial nature. It’s obscurely, why such way was chosen instead of traditional subject complaint letter; but obviously there is an explanation for this.

Following fate of DCK – means right after Aliev’s resignation and sending him as ambassador to Vienna – only confirms what was said. The public association in the initial string never made it into a party; moreover, a group appeared inside it, which went by “its own way”. At the end, DCK became a shelter for the only true radical in his view Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, as long as the result, the association was captured by Ablyazov (for that reason, frankly, it fell to the closure of party, which was after all established on the basis of Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan public association, but what you wouldn’t do for your own ambitious plans). If people, who established DCK, meant particularly struggle for power and party as the main instrument for it, then we wouldn’t witness split of the organization less than half-a-year after its establishment.

Returning to Aliev and his “honest confession” to the reporter of Azattyk radio, it is only left to commiserate those, who still believe to revelations of Vienna outcast. Judging by the number of stipulations even in the interview, which we now discussing, let alone the enormous factual inaccuracies in other writings of Aliev, it is understandable how little this man knew about what was happening around him. He even flounder in the priorities of happened events, stating that, for instance, famous television proclamation of deputy Toktasynov concerning owners of CTC television channel sounded like an answer on his aspiration to appear before parliament. In sober fact, a spring of trap called Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, in which Aliev slap-banged, started to release from this proclamation. His whimper, retranslated by CTC channel writhing in hysterics for a few days, was heard by the all country.

It sounded like farewell. Soon Aliev left the country and went to Vienna. There still he lives…

Every culture differences between each other, but all barbarians are the same

Vissarion Belinskiy

Tolerance — major vitality resource of Kazakhstan has become a subject of testing. The specificity of our country is the high level of tolerance; it’s impossible to speak of any normal country development without it. Tolerance is the most important element of state safety for Kazakhstan. Kazakhstani tolerance started to give failures at the very inappropriate moment.

Market relations development is taking its course far from civilized shapes in Kazakhstan. You can hardly define when it was worse: in current last days of the crisis or at the first “five-year plans” of capitalism. The extensive polarization in population income has become one of the practice consequences. Palaces and hovels often stand near to each other in the biggest cities of Kazakhstan, particularly those who bearing the title of “economical development main places”. Considering the threat of poor population segments will excite a riot, state authorities just can’t work without a cult of tolerance in this kind of reality. You needn’t go far to find some material objects for avenging the righteous anger of the crowd: luxurious houses, cars, restaurants and boutiques are always at hand.

The difference in income was at the communistic period also, but its scale is not compared with the current situation. Communistic party nomenclature and “red bosses” had luxurious places for rest which were closed to common people. The places were camouflaged and disposed far away, so it wasn’t the eyesore for people. In addition, all those villas had the main accent decoration inside the rooms and the appearance of the buildings was made as ordinary as possible. Country houses and SPA resorts weren’t private property of soviet political elite; many members of the elite have to get out of the habit when retiring or being dropped from the team.

Current situation is quite different. Palaces, luxurious cars, enterprises and money belong to a quite certain owners. Banknotes hadn’t particular value in soviet period; in the conditions of planning-distributing system it was more important to have the access to a certain goods and services than to money. State authorities tried to impose restrictions under consumption standards in a view of deficit of the quality fast moving consumer goods (FMCG). There is no goods and services’ deficit in Kazakhstan now; you can do everything you want in sphere of consumption, if you have enough money. If you don’t want to spend money in Kazakhstan – the whole world is at the service of solvent men. That is why the current economical model will work only when political elite won’t forget about tolerance in all its different varieties.

Poly-ethnical structure of the Republic objectively keeps the common tolerance spirit. In spite of active migration process at the first half of the nineties, the most mass nations of Kazakhstan are still Kazakhs and Russians; it is more than three-fourths of all population. However, compromise and consensus are necessary not only between these groups. In conformity with social sciences the society cannot be considered as the stable one if discriminated number of population equals 3% (and 16-17% of discriminated population means the beginning of the end). Taking into account the quantity of the Uigurs, Chechens, Koreans, Uzbeks and other ethnical groups, it’s required to create particular surroundings for making the whole country population feel comfortable.

The same picture is in linguistic sphere; situation is far from homogeneity and experiences high dynamics. Particularly, English-speaking segment increases along with domination of Russian and Kazakh languages, as well as Chinese language grows in demand. It’s connected with the globalization and engaging our country into world-wide and regional, economical and cultural processes. According to above said conditions, ruling elite cannot make any abrupt movement because it could bring to common imbalance.

Religious and confessional map of the country is notable for its diversity. It’s easier to name the religion that is absent in Kazakhstan than all the religions country has. It is added with serious cultural differences in population as well as westernization and Islamization processes running all together at the same time and in the same segments of society. Moreover, there are essential regional differences and great civilization gap between cities and countryside.

According the situation, ruling elite is practically deprived the opportunity to use scaled political maneuvers which can directly or indirectly undermine the tolerance in the country. Figuratively speaking, when yashmak and mini-skirt will stop to live peacefully at the streets of Kazakhstani cities then the political elite would be extremely difficult to retain its power.

Even at the conditions of 2001—2002 years’ political crisis, when suppressing the opponents, state authorities tried to avoid the methods aimed on formation of enemy image. “Beat the oligarchs!” motto would simply transform into “Death to bourgeoisies!” or “Down with the regime!” Ruling elite tried to prevent high society politicization level while “dealing with” the opposition. The indexes of news programs watching shows us that people in Kazakhstan is already quite politicized. In the same time the population is atomized and usual cannot gather into united mighty political power. State power fears to lose control under society, so it keeps population in atomized condition.

Last challenges towards tolerance (and to the whole system) are connected with “Kazakhs card” playing: language, aggrieved national pride, the demand of preferences etc. Those who use “Kazakhness” in struggle for resources offer simple and easy understandable mottoes for the crowd but quite dangerous for state stability and integrity. Formal political opposition uses the same method; but it’s difficult to say if the process controls by the opposition whether the opposition controls by the process.

Ethnical differences cannot provoke the conflict itself, but when they are imposed upon the injustice – then the tension will sharply grow. Kazakhstan is full of injustice, feeding by corruption and disability of state structures. For example, intelligence services tried to struggle with religious extremism but have discredited such kind of practice and provoked the negative process in result.

tate authorities appeared to be unready towards the tolerance challenges. While trying to be up the challenges, state authorities repeat hoary clichés of PR-events and enounce the words of friendship and good feelings between different nations as a kind of sorcery. The lines of split are growing along with unemployment and criminality against the background of recession drop in population income. Dynamics of the process is under control so the traditional hope for “perhaps” may not work. It should be made efforts on situation normalization urgently. Meanwhile there are different forces seeing their political capital in incitement of ethnic hatred and intolerance; they are going overboard and rock the boat. May be, among them there’re people who sincerely worry for the nation; but it can bring to “irreparable use”. The reaction from healthy forces of state and society at the address of destabilizing players is unseen.

The lines of split will activate very soon if the effective measures won’t be taken. There are a lot of splits in Kazakhstan and all of them are painful: between poor and rich, between languages, religions, ethnic groups, and regions. If ruling elite will not pay attention towards intolerance in time, then it as all chances to get the scenario when before “ruling” we will add the prefix — “former”.

The truth always appears above the lies, like oil on water

Miguel Servantes

Continuous crisis in Kazakhstan is introducing new elements into country living. Private sector had stiffened qualification requirements, and there are lots of reasons for that. Companies are requiring able people, reliable, sustainable to pressure from rival’s side, raiders, and fiscal authorities. As the result of all this, the level of requirements to HR stuff and recruiting agencies were upgraded; and they, in their stance, started to ask for help not only from psychologists, but also graphologists.

Graphology is one of the methods, which are allowing to get additional information about a personality and to lighten up many of its important edges. This applied science is not only helping people on their way to self-perception to learn better their individuality, propensity and predilections; with its help employers are getting much more information about its employees.

Modern business world is making great demands to human resources. Being in conditions, when labour market is becoming more and more complicated and segmented, and also suffering from crisis consequences, the importance of departments in organizations, responsible for employing people, has rose sharply. The more major post required from one, the more expensive are faults in recruitment.

Graphology by itself cannot replace educational diplomas, certificates, questionnaires, tests and CV’s, but working in complex with other information, it can tell many about candidates. It is pretty often when information, acquired with help from expert graphologist, is hard to find in any other sources.

Let alone that every person has its individual handwriting, though any of it could be classified and diagnosed with high level of sureness. Two or three A4 paper pieces with handwriting can tell things about its owner that he himself never knew.

Graphologist can always make clear whether a person is addicted to alcohol or drugs. Generally, an alcoholic is easily recognizable without handwriting specialist’s help, but drug addict is the other business, especially when it is a newcomer. It is clear, though, that drug addict is much more dangerous to any organization than alcohol addict. And position doesn’t make any difference, whether it’s a driver or marketologist.

Letters and types of their connections are allowing to judge with high grade of sureness, whether a man can handle right decisions in difficult situation. Is such quality of nature as readiness is specific for him or completely not. Non-rational moments in handwriting (for instance, much more connectors than it’s necessary) are not pointing out on rationality in another aspects of activities. Graphology is adhered to principle “simple handwriting – simple man”. But “simple” is absolutely doesn’t mean “primitive”; “artless”, “straight”, “clear”, “rational” are more suitable definitions here.

On present stage of its development, graphology can’t categorically point on person’s tendency to steal. Usually stealing is determined by social conditions and not related to psychological categories; whereas kleptomania is a defection called syndrome, and manifest itself in handwriting in signs, pointing on falsehood, hypocrisy, and prevalence of instincts over intellect, weakly developed of volition. For instance, vowels opened from downside, lack of harmony in handwriting etc.

In work with handwriting the result is clearly correlated to labour contribution. For instance, tendency to lie can be defined only after painstaking work. Changes in slope, variability of letter sizes, whole handwriting is like under depression.

If the text is dimensional enough then it is easy to find out fatigability of the worker. This factor is correlated with productivity. Serious differences in writing first and last sentences in text are pointing on high fatigability.

“Intellectual” handwriting is quick, rational and correct writing. The less ware energy is wasted by person writing, the more closely it would listen to lecturer in class or managers’ direction on meeting.

Handwriting can objectively settle a diagnosis – is it schizophrenia, established neurosis, or amentia. Specifics couldn’t be avoided. For instance, teachers in initial school have maximum depersonalized handwriting. They virtually writing in initial school copy books, which gives very less data to enter their inside world.

There are many ways of deliberate corruption of handwriting. Usually it is done for the reason to hide some things. But despite that any of people has several writes, one used to make coordination memorandum, other to write letter to family, third to write a note, it is impossible to change writing beyond recognition. Firstly, there are many moments appearing, pointing on artificial corruption in writing. Secondly, only conscious part of writing can be changed. Whilst very many in writing are related to unconscious, and thus can’t be changed by conscious effort of will.

Writing is always individual also as some kind of dossier since 16-17 years, i.e. since the age of maturing, accompanying its owner, accumulating various information in itself. Thus, “writing is individual and dynamically stable program of graphical techniques of writing, which basis is optic-moving image of written, implemented with help of motion system, specific for each person”.

Nowadays preliminary testing for choosing candidate on one or another position gets widespread more and more. No doubt this brings its positive results, especially if especially developed tests for it were used, including multi-scale. Not only scales with questions, aimed to define business, personal and psychological skills, are included in modern tests, but parameters to determine sincerity, honesty, actuality of the information. Question or rather statements of the test are not connected with conceptual aspects, and applicant, who has no comparable pre-testing training, gets good opportunity to involuntary tell almost anything about him.

However, the internet is sharply increasing the possibilities to access knowledge, which was considered as esoteric not long ago. Tons of literature, dedicated to communications theory, influence psychology, finger language, verbal and non-verbal tests, rhetoric and the rest, is allowing to person, aimed to take his place in life, to fundamentally prepare for meeting with professional interviewers and to win. Some people spare no expense in chase of good position.

Digital technologies, high-quality polygraph and computer hardware, plus corruptness of educational system are allowing giving birth to virtually any document. Sometimes it is hard work even for specialist to recognize fake stamp.

Not many employers are bothering themselves with thorough check of an applicant; not included that such measures cost good waste of money and time. Some simply can’t afford it. As the result, a person who is far from meeting requirements got the position of importance. Time, money and energy are wasted. The first to send help to personnel officer in form of psychologist and graphologist is the ones who already had severe damage from bad employees.

But if diploma can be bought, and tests can be met with help of competent trainer and various key tricks, then situation with handwriting is completely different. Relative dynamic fixity of writing means its definitive stereotype, stability in time and its fixity to divertive factors of different kinds. Usually handwriting is stabilized to 25 year old and then it not undergoes substantial changes until older (60) and oldest (74) age, when by virtue of ageing changes comes derangement of learned behavior. On deepest level attempts to artificially change handwriting are doomed, because internal construction if writing is staying permanent.

Precisely that’s why the importance of graphology as the mean of objective and fully authentic examination of personality. The appeal to graphology in connection with formed circumstances in the country appears to be logical. However, it is important to know for sure than professional graphologists in the country can be counted by fingers.

There is a real danger that not specialists would went into society and business with graphology, but charlatans and speculators from it. To the present day there are people already, which can give mass of various data to customers literally by three words and only for light piece; however, when minimal typesetting of graphologist is appearing to be much more voluminous.

1. The sample of handwriting must be done on clear A4 piece of paper

2. No additional appliances must be used while writing (line, ruling, using of so-called “zebra”)

3. The surface of paper must have smooth and non-glanced

4. The sample must be done either by stylus of ball pen

5. When using ball pen it is preferably to underlay 2-3 sheets under the paper

6. Sheets being used for underlying must be used only for this purpose

7. The sample of handwriting must contain not less than 15-20 lines

8. The sample must have signature

The easiest way to establish the truth for the executive is to find the professionalism of graphologist on his own experience.

Fugitive criminal, ex-ambassador of Kazakhstan in Austria Rakhat Aliev is continuing to set things on fire. If two years ago, right after the escape, he extensively created himself “aristocracy Decembrist in exile” image, then today he trying to represent himself as a regular lad, the same as everyone – simple man, who loves his homeland and truly suffering for it. But yet, as always, the result appeared to be anything but not such, on which the “poor exile” reckoned.

Right after escape Rakhat Aliev extensively gave various interviews and comments, preferring, of course, Russian and European press (his person is very well known in Kazakhstani mass-media, except that from the true side). Aliev were kindly greeted foreign journalists, setting meetings in lobbies of most prestigious hotels of the Austrian capital. And there, having a cup of freshly brewed coffee, he broadcasted about sad everyday life of the true democrat, told about the sorrow about Kazakhstan homeland and blustered to discharge tons of dirt on highest power of the country in closest time.

Unhappily to Aliev, European journalists, initially been sincerely interested to him, quickly sorted out, that if poor oppositionist could put a cup of coffee in premium luxury hotel on the line, but he definitely can’t have enough for the team of personal bodyguards, suits from leading couturiers and handmade business accessories; and started to ask dirty questions. And after corruption scandals emerged, which is connected to Aliev personally, now on Austrian territory, stance to him sharply changed.

Rakhat Aliev decided that image change could influence the situation. By stopping showing off and demonstrate his wealth, he started to act himself as a common person. Consider only price of his appearance on K+ television channel. Non-styled and a bit oily hair, the fringe, falling as near as half-the-face, sown-home jacket… saying “look at me, I am the same as everyone, I’m good guy, I’m poor and unhappy”.

But sadly that isn’t worked either. The looks of a luckless man appeared to be too intentional. And demonstration of chase concerns and almost 007 fervors with meeting point only entertained the press. That’s how the journalist from Russian Newsweek described his meeting with Aliev: “he agreed to meet me in one of European capitals, but gave himself a time to find about me by his own path. After few days he informed me where to come to wait for further instructions. On appointed day Aliev called back (number didn’t appeared), and told that his deputy will now arrive.

His runner, young European of solid constitution, invited me to sit in black executive saloon and asked right away, isn’t it frightening to sit in stranger’s car. I explained that I used to catch up private cars back in Moscow. He clucked unfriendly and asked to fasten my seatbelt, although he wasn’t. “I never clip on while working”, he cut.

We stopped by unremarkable hotel in outskirts of the city. Rakhat Aliev awaited us sitting in far side of hotel’s restaurant in the company of another bodyguard. He sat with his back to the exit, near window; curtains were drawn. Cigarettes, coffee and apple juice on the table. If there were no two big guys sitting behind the table near us, Aliev could be bought as wealthy tourist.”

Deutsche Welle journalists were too offered to play spies. That’s how ironically those reporters are describing the meeting: “the meeting neither took place in fashionable restaurant nor in the suit of five-star hotel or expensive villa, as it could be proposed, but in faceless still prestigious office in one of European cities (…). Aliev came on the interview wearing quiet dress: baseball cap, pulled on the eyes, expensive but not bright blue jacket with laid-on brown patches on elbows, blue shirt and jeans. He brought two small men’s bags and paper bag; in which, as appeared later, were gift-book samples on Russian and German of Aliev’s book ”Godfather-in-law”. Part of containments of the bags he busily put on the table as soon as he took seat. If judged by previous interviews of Aliev to western press, this is a worked out move: laid-out documents giving authenticity to conversations”.

Such episodes are encountered almost in any interview of Vienna Sitter. Reporters, used to see a catch in anything, have quickly compared the facts and came to only true conclusion – this man couldn’t be trusted. Cheating even in small things and such extensively working for the public, he thinks not about the country and homeland and of course not about democracy, but about trivial saving of his own skin in brand packaging.