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The Documentary Podcast

Young, Cool and Kazakhstani

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

More than 25 years after independence, young Kazakhstanis are still trying to make sense of their dark history and their place in the new world order. At least half of the 18 million population of Kazakhstan is under 30 - born and raised in the post-Soviet era. Russian journalist Tatyana Movshevich goes to Almaty, the cultural capital of Kazakhstan to meet young Kazakhs and find out how they are moving their country forward, how they navigate their lives under an authoritarian regime and play their part in a global world.

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0:00.0

So I wake up around 6 to 7 I either jog or I go to my boxing class.

0:10.0

Then I come to work most of the time I miss the lunch I just forget to eat that's my problem at least two three days I sleep here I sleep on that couch and you could see there's my toothbrush and

0:25.9

a toothpaste on my table.

0:27.6

I think I'm normal, I think a lot of people work like this but if they don't they need to because our

0:37.6

country is developing and we need hard-working people with strong work ethics.

0:43.0

My name is Taitiano Maveshievich.

0:45.0

I was born and raised in Russia and now live in work in London.

0:49.0

I've always been fascinated to learn more about how my generation, grew up after the collapse of the Soviet Union

0:55.9

is finding its way in the new world order. I've been keeping a close eye on emerging trends in

1:01.2

Central Asia and Kazakhstan is a particularly interesting case in point.

1:06.4

With a total population of just 18.5 million and over half under the age of 30.

1:12.8

For me, it stands out in the way that young people are driving change there.

1:17.3

All of our processes are done by Scrum.

1:20.5

This is the method of managing the projects.

1:23.4

This is what startups usually use.

1:26.2

On the whiteboard you could see there are only three criteria.

1:29.4

So it would say it's basically what are you trying to do?

1:32.4

So everyone knows what they're trying to do so everyone knows what they're trying to do

1:34.5

what they're doing at the moment and what's they completed that's it.

1:37.8

Bordering China and Russia and at least three other volatile states.

1:42.4

Kazakhstan is a predominantly Muslim nation. and at least three other volatile states.

1:42.8

Kazakhstan is a predominantly Muslim nation the size of Western Europe.

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