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		| scot47 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:24 pm    Post subject: Kazakhstan |   |  
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				| Does anyone anywhere have recent Kazakh experience ? |  | 
	
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		| blackcorsair 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:39 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Well, there was this energetic and vocal young lady by the name of Gauhar... |  | 
	
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		| oxi 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:15 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I've been back and forward to Almaty plenty of times. What info are you looking for? |  | 
	
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		| basiltherat 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:48 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| spent 7 or so months there (almaty) last year ... if that counts as 'recent'. anything particular on your mind ? best
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		| scot47 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:22 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Not for me honestly. A friend who used to work in Saudi has asked me whwt I know about teaching jobs in Kazakhstan. All I know is that Lev Trotzky was exiled there in 1926. |  | 
	
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		| ntropy 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:35 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| You hear web sites and info pages warning of violent muggings and shakedowns by police and soldiers. 
 Is it really like that?
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