Kazakhstan

Darezhan Omirbaev's Student Registers Violence as a Pedagogical Tool

Free Will Astrology: March 27-April 2, 2013

Armageddon! Meteor Strikes Russia, 850 Injured

The headline really says it all...And this article in the UK Daily Mail has a pretty comprehensive run-down of the 10-ton meteor strike yesterday in the Chelyabinsk region, about 900 miles east of Moscow and near Kazakhstan. (This one is far more dramatic than the Perseid Shower pictured here.) The ... More >>

Watch a Space Capsule Undock and Begin Its Descent to Earth [Video]

The above video shows a Russian-built Soyuz space capsule detaching from the International Space Station late Thursday night. The capsule contained two cosmonauts, Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev, and one American astronaut, Ron Garan. Since canceling the Space Shuttle program, this kind ... More >>

Firdaus Nazarov, Pedicab Driver, Sought by NYPD for Attack in Central Park

via​Things making Central Park slightly less pleasant: Cops are looking for 23-year-old Firdaus Nazarov, a pedicab driver who, along with three others, allegedly attacked two fellow pedicab drivers in the park near Central Park South at 10 p.m. on June 4 to "settle a preexisting beef." One of ... More >>

Best in Show: 'Richard Serra Drawing' at the Met Museum

Plus: Almagul Menlibayeva at Priska C. Juschka; 'Drawing and its Double' at the Drawing Center

In Absurd Vodka Promotions this Week: Get a Free SUV with Your $740K Bottle

Worth its weight in gold. Literally.​If cupcake vodka is still leaving a bad taste in your mouth, probably best not to read on. The mother of all vodka promotions has kicked off out of Russia, where a vodka brand often cited as the most expensive in the world is giving away a monster luxury tr ... More >>

Rare Locales, Too-Familiar Storytelling in The Gift to Stalin

Russia Honors Inept Spies With "Important Achievement" Award

​Life is good for our dearly deported Russian spies, especially for sexy spy Anna Chapman, who not only is likely to make bank on a book deal but is also attending surprise space launches in Kazakhstan and becoming the "new celebrity face of a Russian bank" -- just like a Russian spy-ish vers ... More >>

Sexy Russian Spy Anna Chapman Keeps Popping Up

​Leave it to the city's finest tabloid, the New York Post, to report back every time Anna Chapman, the sexy Russian spy swapped back to the motherland in July, leaves the house. As it turns out, she's something of a big deal in her home country, schmoozing with cosmonauts and bank bosses.

New Test Strips Detect Pork for Muslims

Like this, but for pork​Kazakhstan scientists have invented a test strip that immediately detects the presence of pork.

No Admiration for Armstrong? Thank You, Alberto Contador!

​You've probably already heard the news that Alberto Contador, the 2009 Tour de France champion, returned to his home country of Spain yesterday and promptly trashed Lance Armstrong, the teammate who helped him win his second Tour championship.What a pendejo, our friend Gustavo "Ask a Mexican" Are ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Unleashed: A Brief Guide to the Tour de France

Tomorrow, Lance Armstrong begins cultural learnings of the Tour de France for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan.The 7-time champion is making his return to the Tour as part of a rocky comeback that has included a broken collarbone, some flashes of brilliance, and steadily improving results. ... More >>

Sergei Dvortsevoy Has His Way with Camels and Shepherds Alike in Tulpan

This Week's Voice: Micachu & the Shapes, Rihanna vs. Chris Brown, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Adventureland, and More

Sergei Dvortsevoy's Tulpan In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla on the gleeful, disarming, inscrutable dissonance of Micachu & the Shapes. Raquel Cepeda talks to teens grappling with Rihanna vs. Chris Brown. Theon Weber on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Blitz, a record finally worthy of ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Down Under: Nervous Nellie

Sunday marked Lance Armstrong's return to professional cycling with a short spin around Adelaide, Australia that was broadcast here Sunday afternoon on the Versus network. The rapid circuit race was just a prequel to the Tour Down Under itself, which started in earnest earlier today with its first s ... More >>

Flushing Kebabs Crawl Indoors

New York Film Festival 2008

Mongol: Wrath of (Genghis) Khan

A blood-soaked old-school epic

Two New Shows From Overseas, For Better or Perverse

Brits act dirty at Deitch Projects, while Kazakhs puke some mutton. Ah, art.

Hillary Attack Ads For the Obama Team

Some free tips on ad strategies for Barack's spring offensive

Harvey Fierstein on the History of Blowjobs

Fashion Week proves wearing, even to us model citizens

Horoscope

'Nomad: The Warrior'

Lights! Camera! Chaos!

Whitney's series lacks focus; Anthology's got it

Follow the Yellow Silk Road

Savory Uyghur cuisine comes of age in Rego Park

Fallow Traveler

Pay attention to Sacha Baron Cohen's comic take on America. You might just something learn.

Chinese Barbecue?

When in Flushing, stick to lamb and beef

Altered States

The power of nightmares: Russian thriller and Southern mock-doc imagine scary dystopias

The Slippery Slope

Is there enough oil? Or is there just enough oil to keep the Bush regime going?

Problems in the Red States

World Piece

Central Asian Indie Wastes Post-Apocalyptic Landscape

Bloc Heads

Ugly natives and uglier Americans in Tom Bissell's fiction

Morning Report 12/27/04
Disasters Natural and Unnatural

The Slick One Tonight Is Cheney

Journos as Pols

Cheney's Crude Pal

No Ooze Is Good News

The Next Big Scandal

Into The Outlands

Central Asia's Lost Worlds

Green Cheese, Inc.

The Public Plans and Secret Dreams of the Men Who Sold the Moon

Tibet or Not Tibet

A War on Love

Academy Fight Songs

Bushido—The Way of Oil

America Goes Into the Energy Business With the Former Evil Empire

Children of the Revolution

Moving Violations

Oh! So Young.

The Really World Wide Web

A Guide to Finding News From Far-Flung Places

Nation