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<description><![CDATA[Life in Kazakhstan - from first hand accounts to the sounds of life (via minidisc) we will discover the joys, ingenuity and challenges from everyday life in this part of Ð¡entral Asia.]]></description>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Life in Kazakhstan - from first hand accounts to the sounds of life (via minidisc) we will discover the joys, ingenuity and challenges from everyday life in this part of Ð¡entral Asia.]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>Kazakhstan, Taldykorgan, Stavros, Central Asia, USSR, Russia, Almaty, Stavros, transport, election, Uzbekistan, Soviet Union</itunes:keywords>
<itunes:author>Stavros</itunes:author>
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<title>#9 Perceptions of foreigners and a little channel surfing</title>
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<itunes:duration>16:06</itunes:duration>
<pubDate>4 June 2006 03:22:21 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Listen to what Kazakhstanis think of Americans, Chinese, Canadians, Russians… plus a touch of the daily language reality. As well I channel surfed the TV for you. Yes it’s always for you!]]></description>
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<title>#8 Off to Pioneer camp Komsomol members</title>
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<itunes:duration>14:51</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Pioneer camp, Komsomol</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>27 May 2006 03:17:06 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Did you dream as an Oktyabryonok to become a Pioneer and a Komsomol member? Ever dream as far as becoming a Communist? Well too late the USSR is dead, so all you can do it listen about it on this podcast from Natasha’s first hand experience growing up i]]></description>
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<title>#7 Kazakh food and its Central Asian – USSR influence</title>
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<itunes:duration>12:39</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Kazakh food</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>29 April 2006 03:11:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Warning don’t listen on an empty stomach. Kazakh food and its Central Asian – USSR influence. Plus this time we rock into the podcast to be joined by a special guest.

View photos via kazakhstanstories.blogspot.com]]></description>
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<title>#6 Transport, Almaty and between cities</title>
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<itunes:duration>13:17</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>transport</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>7 April 2006 03:06:28 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Transport, with a focus on understanding the cars in Almaty as an economic and social indicator. You might be surprised what this 19th century land of nomads has.

View photos via kazakhstanstories.blogspot.com]]></description>
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<title>#5 How a marshrutka gets you around</title>
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<itunes:duration>16:34</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>marshrutka, language, Russian, population</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>1 March 2006 03:03:04 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Learn how a marshrutka gets you around. Plus Kazakh official, Russian lingua franca, get population and language details.

View photos via my blog kazakhstanstories.blogspot.com]]></description>
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<title>#4 Fellow volunteers tell their Kazakhstan Stories</title>
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<itunes:duration>17:16</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>VSO</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>5 Feb 2006 02:57:52 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[From toilet paper to perceptions from a new life in Central Asia, listen to fellow VSO volunteers tell their Kazakhstan Stories.

View photos via kazakhstanstories.blogspot.com]]></description>
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<title>#3 Observing the Presidential election in Kazakhstan</title>
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<itunes:duration>18:58</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>OSCE, presidential election, election observer, Us</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>30 Dec 2005 02:52:32 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Through my experience as an OSCE international election observer during the Kazakhstan presidential election, I tell a personal Kazakhstan story.

My vantage point for this tale was Ust Kamenegorsk (Oskemen in Kazakh) close to the almost joining borders]]></description>
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<title>#2 answering what Kazakhstan is</title>
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<itunes:duration>15:46</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>geography, history, flat, apartment</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>15 Dec 2005 02:45:55 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Music is new to #2 joined by basic geography and history along with a cheeky tour of my flat/apartment.

View photos via my blog kazakhstanstories.blogspot.com]]></description>
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<title>#1 If I say Kazakhstan what do you think of</title>
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<comments>http://switchpod.com/cats.php?a=1265</comments>
<itunes:duration>10:25</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Kazakhstan, Taldykorgan, Central Asia</itunes:keywords>
<pubDate>30 Nov 2005 02:41:22 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If I say Kazakhstan what is the first thing you think of.

I asked the above question to friends and family in Canada then on the streets of London in jolly old England.

This podcast is the starting point of an audio discovery of Kazakhstan.]]></description>
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