Just noticed on Chriss Merriman’s site that he has a new page up where you can find some of his posts on life in Kazakhstan, and links to some other sources of basic information about the country. Check out if you want to get an idea of what life is like from the point of view of an expat.

You can also check out Chris’ posts tagged with Kazakhstan. And if you want my humble opinion, check out my posts tagged with life in KZ for more on what it’s really like to live in Astana.

Bonnie Boyd provides an update on the trial of Mark Seidenfeld which opened on 15 June, after a delay earlier. However, the complainant, Zhunssov was not in court, because he was too busy running a marathon in China. Clearly either this case is not very important to him, or he has watched to many Western movies in which cool people carry out business from mountain retreats while underlings do the dirty work. However, the nasty judge seems to think Zhunussov should be there 18 June when next trial date is set.