kazakhstan
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What Really Happened During Kazakhstan’s Internet Blackout?
As protests erupted across the massive Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the government resorted to extreme measures, enforcing a wide-scale internet blackout lasting at least eight hours, blocking news and social media access in the former Soviet state. Eventually, scenes of chaos and burnt vehicles made their way onto news wires. As of…
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Returning To Earth Has Never Been So Beautiful
The three crew members of International Space Station Expedition 42 returned safely to Earth early in the morning of Thursday, March 12, after a 167-day mission. Their journey was stunning.
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A Children’s Treasury Of Insane Designs For Kazakhstan’s World Expo
The architectural rendering is a subtle knife. It can be used to convince, intimidate and generate laffs — or all three at once, if you’re really good. Such is the case with this collection of renderings, which show proposed designs for the upcoming 2017 World Expo in Kazakhstan.
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Are Spacecraft Killing Thousands Of Antelopes In Kazakhstan?
Three years ago, 12,000 rare and endangered antelope carcasses were mysteriously found in Kazakhstan. Nobody knew what happened to them. Exactly one year later, people found 450 new dead bodies. No causes were found. Now they have found another 1000 corpses, and nobody knows what is killing them yet.