Much of the snow in the city of Temirtau in central Kazakhstan is black. Instead of the usual white powder that children love to play with, the snow looks more like coal after a mysterious dark dust settled on the city in the beginning of January. Many residents, worried about their health, took to social …
Kazakh schoolgirls face dilemma over head-scarf ban
Thirteen-year-old Gulsezim Samat hasn’t attended classes since mid-October, when she was told to remove her head scarf before entering her school in the Kazakh village of Chapaev. The school in West Kazakhstan Province, like all educational institutions below university level in the country, is enforcing an official decree by the Education Ministry that bans the wearing …
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