Kazakhstan’s past — from forgotten pages of history to a renewed understanding of traditions and culture.
Everything We’ve Forgotten About One of Humanity’s Oldest Holidays
Ethnographer Dosymbek Qatyran on ancient greetings and forgotten rituals
How the Kazakh Khanate’s Economy Worked—and Why It Was Far More Complex Than It Seems
A Chronicle of the Second All-Kazakh Congress
The Chronology of December 1986
Historian Marat Absemetov on the Difficult Fate of Mirjaqyp Dulatuly
Did the Kazakh khanzada serve as an instrument of the empire?
Why Shamshi Kaldayakov was criticized—and why it never stopped him from becoming a national favorite
Linguist Timur Kozyrev on the real origins of the Kazakh language and the false myths surrounding it.
Guess what this thing was used for.
An interview with Sarah Cameron, author of the book “The Hungry Steppe”
Forgotten missions and lost sovereignty
How Imperial Russia’s failure to understand the ways of Kazakh life exposed the cracks in its own power
