Transcript of Kazakh Journalist Interview

Beatings, midnight phone calls and a culture of fear This is the transcript of my interview with an independent journalist in Kazakhstan.  He was commiserating with me about my hospital stay, and mentioned that he too, had suffered because of his political beliefs. ...

The Endless Sub-Siberian Steppes of Kazakhstan

I got a real lesson in why the Huns, Tatars & Golden Horde were both nomads & ferocious warriors today.  The plane flight from Astana the Gleaming to Almaty the Ancient took me over an incredible stretch of flat, brown steppe. I looked down on this from the...