Greetings, gentle Registanis.  I spotted a couple interesting stories with similar themes.  The theme might best be titled, to borrow from the Daily Show, Clusterf@#$ to the Poor House [Central Asian Edition]  More after the jump. Bailouts Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbaev increased the grow...

Here follows my review of Apples Are From Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared by Christopher Robbins.  This book was informative, but precious little of the information was first-hand knowledge. My primary complaint is that the reader is really taken on a ride as Christopher Robbins tells us othe...