Казахстан: обнуление, пенсионная реформа и лидер нации | Нур-Султан, Байконур и ядерный полигон

I also have a channel for my English-speaking audience! Subscribe now and watch my videos dubbed in English: https://vrlmv.com/HLJkPq Kazakhstan is the most similar country to Russia in the former USSR. Here they also have a leader of the nation, they are persecuting the opposition and carrying out a pension reform. Yuri Gagarin flew into space from the Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome, and the first Soviet atomic bomb was tested at the nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk. Today I will tell you how Kazakhstan lived for 30 years without the Soviet Union, what Nazarbayev led the country to and show the mausoleum that appeared long before Lenin. Support the channel: Patreon: https://vrlmv.com/4acT9L Support with crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/varlamov Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:29 Kazakhstan is an industrial and economic giant 00:05:02 History of Kazakhstan: Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Tamerlane and zhuzes 00:08:26 Kazakhstan as part of Russia 00:09:17 Religion and Islam in Kazakhstan 00:11:18 Aral Sea disaster 00:13:11 Nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk: the first Soviet atomic bomb and the largest environmental disaster 00:19:52 How to live at a nuclear test site? 00:23:00 How the landfill in Semipalatinsk was pulled apart in the 90s 00:25:48 Kurchatov is the most Russian city in Kazakhstan 00:30:57 Walk around Semey 00:33:43 How many people were affected by nuclear tests? 00:35:47 The renaming of the capital and other sights in president’s honour 00:37:27 Dostoevsky Museum in Semey 00:39:27 Alley of leaders in Semey 00:40:46 Chagan is a city that turned out to be unnecessary 00:44:35 Rallies of 1986 00:54:28 How Kazakhstan's life has changed since independence 00:58:22 "Kazakhisation" of the country in the 90s 01:00:31 Nursultan Nazarbayev's presidency 01:08:22 Nazarbayev's cult of personality 01:14:27 Democracy and freedom of speech in Kazakhstan 01:18:04 How Kazakhstan handles independent media 01:19:00 Opposition rallies 01:22:09 The fate of opposition movements 01:22:45 Mass protests in Zhanaozen 01:24:22 Pension reform in Kazakhstan 01:25:37 How Putin and Nazarbayev are similar 01:29:26 Kazakhstan's relations with Russia: a referendum on the preservation of the USSR, a customs union, the possibility of integration 01:35:59 Baikonur and Roscosmos 01:41:46 Medeo - Factory of Records of the USSR 01:43:12 National park in Almaty 01:44:24 Soviet factories: from large enterprises to shopping centers 01:48:40 How the departure of the Russians affected the country 01:51:45 Uralsk is an example of de-Russification of the country 01:54:41 The fate of Lenin monuments 01:57:07 Varlamov street in Almaty 01:58:13 The status of the Russian language in Kazakhstan 02:04:11 Other peoples of Kazakhstan and the national question in the country 02:07:30 How the population of Kazakhstan has changed 02:08:50 Turkestan is a personal project of Nazarbayev 02:10:27 "Old City" in Turkestan: filming is prohibited! 02:15:50 "Snow peaks" on the domes of the akimat of Turkestan 02:18:19 Walk with the deputy akim of Turkestan 02:19:41 How the old city is preserved in Turkestan 02:21:36 The surviving Soviet architecture of Almaty 02:28:40 Why spoil beautiful places with entertainment garbage? 02:29:52 Kazakhstan is a country where almost everything is in Russian 02:31:04 The Government House and the glass torture room 02:32:47 Bath races in Almaty and Tashkent 02:34:58 Conversations with locals: life under the USSR, $1000 pension, plans to move abroad 02:38:00 Hammers and sickles on the facade of the building of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan 02:38:31 Elevated metro is a monument to corruption in Nur-Sultan 02:41:50 Why is Nur-Sultan, former Astana, so empty? 02:47:03 How Nur-Sultan developers put pink flamingos at risk 02:47:44 Economy of Kazakhstan: oil and rapid growth after the collapse of the USSR 02:54:12 How Kazakhs treat the USSR 02:56:28 Conclusion