The events of 2011 still keep in awe the population of Zhanaozen(a city on the west of Kazakhstan). Recently I’ve seen a documental film narrating the life of those who then rebelled against the negligent treatment of employers, and of their relatives. To tell the truth, I stand aghast at what’s been shown. People’s rights were overridden, their money was detained, the hunger strike was extremely cruelly suppressed without even listening to what those people demanded. And, really, what did they demand? Just a fair treatment from the side of their employers in the face of several oil companies who dishonestly cleaned out their poor employees working 24/7 trying to feed their families. Nowadays many of those people are killed, the rest are afraid of speaking avoiding the same destiny. What can they do if their advocates were either killed or locked up?( take for example the case of Natalya Sokolova, condemned for 8 years) The affair was hushed up. After such a practice, what justice and democracy we’re talking about?!

Let me begin by telling you I’m not a feminist.  Neither am I the preacher of feminism with its often shocking claims( such as men discriminate women by making them pregnant, so all women of the world should unite under the policy of aborts), nor am I totally against it( because in many corners of the world the rights of women are defied and feminist organizations struggle with this occurrence). But the other day I’ve come across an article narrating the flagrant treatment of women in the Indian society and it stunned me.

Having read that article, I’ve surfed on the Internet in search of further information and followed a dozen links. In general, all of them tell one and the same: In India, bearing a baby girl is undesirable. That is the way of India that a woman is thought to be a burden for her father, at first, then, for her husband because they need to provide her with food and clothes all her life.  For all that, the Indian society disdains those women who work because, according to its principles, a woman mustn’t work. Nonsense! Where is the logic?! Firstly they complain that a woman is a burden, and then say she can’t work to fend for herself. I don’t mind the tradition saying that women are responsible for the household and coziness at home, that they are, in the first place, mothers, but discrimination on the racial factor in modern times is inadmissible. In accordance with the constitution of India, women are equal with men, but in reality it’s the same as with the caste although, according to the same constitution, all citizens are equal. In practice, women are a lot worse educated or uneducated at all, have little or no influence in politics, and what is horrible, criminal acts committed on women, such as robbery, beating or rape aren’t often investigated. So, dear feminist organizations, this is where you need to work in order to protect the abject and offended!

One of the most highly contentious requests of the present covering not only the main 3 parties to the issue but the whole international community. If it’s approved, on the one hand, we get 2 sides satisfied, one left with nothing and the space for diplomacy ricocheted. Should it be denied, I expect, the wave of perturbations isn’t going to be so powerful as in the reverse case.

Yes, now we are talking about the scandalous triangle in the face of Ukraine, Russia and Crimea. In the light of recent events taking place in Ukraine, the Crimean authorities took the decision to withdraw the Crimean autonomy from Ukraine and at the same time petitioned the entrance to the Russian Federation. Now Crimea is occupied by numerous Russian military troops, there were cases of attacks on Ukrainian officers and still, paradoxically, the Russian authorities deny the presence of these troops.

I just want to say that if Crimea joins Russian, then the stability across the globe will reel, the whole world order in the near term will result in chaos. Because can we talk about any diplomacy observing how one country, in fact, invades another and takes a part of it? The referendum which will determine the fate of Crimea is taking place on March 16, so, they still have time to do the right thing. 

Numerous protests have been raised by prisoners at the US military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. Over a 100 inmates went on a hunger strike against the brutal treatment and indefinite confinement. These protests rapidly gained media’s attention. Prison authorities responded to the strike by restraining the inmates in a feeding chair with their arms, legs and head strapped to it until the food digested properly.

Though internationally it’s a duty to respect the protest and the strikers’ decision not to eat anything, the American policy directs force feeding the prisoners for the own ‘safety and welfare”. President Barack Obama has defended this practice at Guantanamo, telling a news conference last year, “I don’t want these individuals to die”.

As for me, I stand for the right of the prisoners in this very case.  I don’t know what the situation at Guantanamo prison is, have no idea about their treatment. But if the government goes against the right to go on a strike, it automatically blocks the inmates’ all other rights, in fact, the people are treated like animals having no ability to speak and to be heard.  And this is all despite the fact that their wines, in many cases, have not been proven…

As of now, 155 detainees remain at Guantanamo but the current number of strikers is unknown. The prison authorities stopped disclosing the details of the protest last December, saying it’s no longer in their interest to publicly release the information. However, according to some hidden sources, at the latest count, 17 of the strikers continue to be force-fed.

Christian Karembeu is a French footballer, a European champion, taking the third place among the best players of the xx century on Oceania. At first sight, an ordinary star who is respected by millions of fans...

 But there is a very interesting thing about him – although being a French footballer, he never sang the French national anthem - La Marseillaise. He did so in memory of his great-grandpaexhibited at the Human Colonial Exhibition in a Paris museum in 1931.

Human Zoo - once a common form of entertainment in the West for the general public in the XIX - early XX century, whose purpose was to demonstrate immigrants from Asia and Africa in the natural and sometimes primitive savage form and also those people who had physical abnormalities. Similar zoos pronounced racist overtones, exhibiting those people next to the monkeys to show their common origin. 

Today, Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale is seen as a stain in the history of France. But then more than 35,000 men, women and children were brought as exhibits in human zoos, most of them – against their will.

      

       Five Indians kidnapped from Chile in 1881 and exhibited in the human zoo. Died after a year in Europe.                                                                                      

Ota Benga, a pygmy from the valley of the Congo. In 1916, unable to return to his native Congo, he shot himself.

Labrador Eskimos family. In the course of five months they all died of smallpox, to which they had no immunity. Abraham Ulrikab had a diary in which he described all the humiliations his family had experienced from the missioners.

  

Sarah Baartman

The fact that she had protruding buttocks and society view her as this “wild or savage female”. She was then considered to be part of the "Negro race," which at the time was considered the lowest race of humans. She was sometimes likened to an orangutan instead.

It’s said for the nowadays European liberals to admit their grandfathers and fathers willingly made ​​money on human suffering. The last human exhibit disappeared from European zoo only in 1935 in Basel and in 1936 in Turin. But the last "temporary exhibition" with blacks was in 1958 in Brussels at the Expo, where the Belgians introduced "Congolese village with its residents."  Such a cavalier violation of international human rights!  So cruel and inhumane that I even have no words to say anything…

One factor. 2 nations. No similarity.

It has turned into one of the most important, if not the principal, factor of the global and regional geopolitics, the subject of great debates among countries who possess it and those experiencing deficits. In the modern globalizing world, this interconnection between it and geopolitics is rising.

As we know, previously, it was the military power to establish the framework of the character of international relations. Later, the role of religion was regarded as a determining factor. Nowadays it’s oil that plays first fiddle.

One would say governments rich in oil can be sure that their country is going to prosper in the course of the 21^st century. “No! “, I would tell you. Why? Just because my country is an object lesson of the falsity of that statement.

The government always tells people that the Norwegian experience was taken as the basis for the development of the oil sector of our country. Without any comparative analyses, schemes and numbers I can tell you either they work insufficiently or simply almost all revenue from oil export goes into the pockets of senior officials. Why such a conclusion?  Do you observe totally free and yet highly qualified public service here in Kazakhstan, is the level of unemployment at its minimum, can the average salary be compared to that of Norway? By no means, I think. We are not a poor country, but we could be a rich one. Should all revenue be nationalized, we could be. If only Kazakhstan weren’t that corrupted, if only…

An odious bluffer, an international superhero or a masterly performing actor hired by an ill-wisher?

June 9, 2013. At first glance, it would seem as just another date talking of nothing, simply a thin leaf torn from a thick calendar directory. The same world with the same ordinary routine, people hurrying hither and thither, hustling, pushing each other in crowded buses, others tediously waiting to advance for another scanty distance in traffic jams. If photographers all around the world were to capture the life of their cities that morning, there would be the same picture with the scenery taken as a constant and only faces varying. However, all population of the planet got united under an unprecedented unique news, having flown around the globe in a couple of minutes right after someone, having introduced himself as Mr. Edward Snowden, announced that “The Big Brother” in the face of the United States accompanied by the United Kingdom watch nearly every step of every civilian an almost every state via the Internet and mobile phones, the two things all use. Impossible! All the basic legal rights are sent to hell by 2 governments positioning themselves as the most democratic of all times and nations?

Of course, today each of us is aware of who Edward Snowden is.  An American computer specialist, a former Central Intelligence Agency employee, and former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed top secret NSA documents to several media outlets, initiating the NSA leaks, which reveal operational details of a global surveillance apparatus run by the NSA.  A series of exposés beginning June 5, 2013 revealed Internet surveillance programs such as PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora, as well as the interception of US and European telephone metadata. What does this mean? Listen further: Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps and … attention, please… Angry Birds app steal your personal data and go to one source. Nowadays we know this thanks to one man. How do you think, what if one day this information is stolen by terrorists? What the world risks? Why today this man is constantly threatened by death and forced to search for asylums? Maybe all he’s said is the truth which hurts the plans of certain people. ..And now it’s your turn to decide who Edward Snowden is: аn odious bluffer, an international superhero or a masterly performing actor hired by an ill-wisher?