Sungat Arynov - Blog

Late in the evening on January 5, 2022, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev addressed the country again.

On January 23, 2026, a conscript named Kazbek Ospanov died at a unit near Ust-Kamenogorsk.

In January 2022, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev spent two weeks in the Akorda official residence.

On August sixth, 2026, Marina Kharchuk from Pavlodar received an SMS from the number 1414: she had been allocated a two-room apartment, 81 square meters.

On September eighteenth, 2026, Tokayev signed a decree that almost no one noticed: Alikhan Smailov was reappointed chairman of the Supreme Audit Chamber.

On September 16, 2026, Zhomart Yertayev walked out of prison, a former banker whom a court found guilty of organizing the embezzlement of 144 billion tenge from Bank RBK.

A scene that repeats every day in any outpatient clinic.

In 1832, Alexei Levshin, an official of the Orenburg Border Commission, published three volumes in St.

On September 8, 2026, Minister of Education Zhuldyz Suleimenova was asked at a government briefing what would happen to schools that allow female students to wear religious clothing.

In August 2026, in Astana, a female taxi driver named Assel drove five men to their destination.

This story was told by a girl on Threads, and I'm retelling it close to her post, without her name: she wrote it as a personal story, not as news.

In the early days of September 2026, Bayan Alaguzova, the well-known music producer of the group KeshYOU (she writes on Twitter as Bayan Maxatkyzy), wrote that she was tired of religion and its propaganda, and asked her followers about the 72 virgins supp…

A news item comes out about yet another decision from above, and the same thing starts in the chats.

On the sixteenth of August, in the village of Merke in the Zhambyl region, 19-year-old Madina passed away.

I have no respect for this category of people, and I will explain why.

On August 3, the Financial Monitoring Agency, a body that investigates economic crimes, reported that about 140,000 Kazakh citizens are listed as attached to medical organizations they have never visited.

Every month, a tenth of your salary is taken and put into the pension fund.

In 552, Bumin and his brother Istemi, at the head of the Ashina clan, crushed the Rouran—an empire that had held the eastern steppe in fear for a century and a half.

Every month, two percent of your salary is withheld for health insurance.

In two affiliated clinics in the Turkestan region, three dentists were on staff.

This month in Russia, warehouses were burning brightly.

In 1994, twenty-two-year-old Aida was betrothed to a guy she had seen only a few times before the wedding.

Married men live longer: where do these extra years come from?

June 26 was a busy day in Astana.

No matter how much time passes, the lawlessness of those in power remains an unchanging and bitter reality.

The road along the Talgar highway changes immediately after "Magnum" — that's where the region begins.

Yerik from Almaty placed his first bet in 2008.

Last year, the state deposited $130 into the account of every Kazakh child.