* 🇰🇿 The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan has begun to study the possible location of a nuclear power plant as the country looks to nuclear power amid crypto-driven energy crisis.
* 🇰🇿 Food prices have surged 11.3% since the start of the year.
* 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan’s national team's 0:8 defeat to France has left much of the country's football lovers wondering how Nur-Sultan could spend hundreds of millions of dollars on such a dismal performance.
* 🇰🇿 Chinese-Kazakh joint venture starts production of nuclear fuel assemblies
* 🇺🇿 The question of whether Uzbekistan should join the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union, with its single market of 184 million people, has provoked fierce debates.
* 🇺🇿 Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev replaced Rustam Inoyatov as his adviser on law-enforcement. Inoyatov was once considered the kingmaker of Uzbek politics.
* 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan’s national oil and gas company has successfully issued a Eurobond in London.
* 🇹🇲 State newspapers and magazines currently available free-of-charge in pdf format on government websites will go behind a paywall from 2022.
* 🇰🇬 30 women and 48 men died of HIV in 2020 in Kyrgyzstan.
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When Cristopher Columbus arrived in 1492, it's estimated that 5 million to 15 million people lived in North America.
The number declined sharply to fewer than 238,000 by the late 19th century. #genocide#ThanksgivingDay
Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas but Leif Erickson first landed on Canadian shores almost 500 years before Columbus arrived in the Bahamas.
Erickson was converted to Christianity by King Olaf I in what is now Norway.
Columbus Day is a national embarrassment for the US.
No country should ever celebrate genocide.
Christopher Columbus is a man who created disposition and genocide of millions of Natives in America.
"During the Soviet period, urban planners tried to develop "satellite cities" like Sumgayit, 30-60 kilometers away from Baku. This is not a great distance, but the fact that people had to be moved from their native environment was very unsettling."
Elbay Gasimzade, architect
"The best memory is the people’s, and history is consistent when memories are created in an open and liberal environment."
Some right-wingers and ignorant fools might say "the UK is not a racist country" but check out these official statistics.
* Black people are about 18 times more likely to be searched than their white counterparts.
* BME children make up over half of the child population in prison (28% are black). This is an increase of 15% over the past decade.
* By the end of secondary school, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils are almost three years behind their white counterparts, and black Caribbean students are 11 months behind their white British counterparts.