Der Spiegel’s graphic designer Omar Sayami went to Tajikistan and made a podcast (German).

Nathan discussed this video a while ago.

Now, can you imagine the talk of that sober American guy lauding Kazakhstan while seeing Serbian wildlife? No?

BELGRADE — CNN admits to having made a mistake adding sounds from Kazakhstan promo video to sights of Serbian tourist offer.

I gave a presentation on Kazakhstan and the Resource Curse the other day for the Cambridge University International Development Society, thought it might be interesting to some. Download it here. It’s an openOffice file converted to MS Powerpoint format, hope it works on all machines.