Jacque Keller
Alina Sagimuldina is attending Custer County High School this year as part of the student foreign exchange program. She is 16 years old and from Rudny, Kazakhstan in the northern part of the country. She will celebrate this Christmas season with her host family, Steve, Wendy and Meredith Barnes. Alina is sure to get a strong dose of the holiday spirit when she accompanies the Barnes's to Missouri where they will gather together with 30 or so family members at Steve's folks' house.
To supply troops in landlocked Afghanistan, the United States is relying on short-term relationships with dictatorial nations in Central Asia without factoring any long-term strategy for the region, according to testimony delivered last week to senators.
Kazakhstan has a unique problem. It's long on land and short on the people to farm it.
Another anniversary of Kazakhstani independency is a reason to look back on the distance covered. In some ways it appeared to be extensively hard, and in another a blind Fortune hugged the republic so strong, that blindness had passed to it. Nevertheless, never ending despite various challenges, but country is continuing its way, choosing the most adequate and optimal routes.
