About women, love and family
“In Kazakhstan, we spare no expense so that women can give birth more boldly and their husbands love them more.” March 2007
“If you want a woman to like you... If she is beautiful, tell her that she is smart. If she doesn't look good, say she's beautiful. If neither one nor the other is suitable, say: “How did you lose weight!” March 2017
“Initially, we are driven by love and passion. It's clear. But when it passes, there must be responsibility. Both husband and wife must be responsible, and for this they must be prepared. Some of my friends don't like it - they say I persuade girls not to like men. And I tell them: you need to take seriously those who say that they want to unite with you in order to go through all the hardships of this life. It’s not like you have beautiful hair and so on. The very famous actress Faina Ranevskaya said: “We are still smarter than men. We don't choose a man by looking at his legs." March 2017
“I am against divorces, it is necessary to educate young people in the spirit of the value of family, the harmfulness of divorces, because because of them, children suffer first of all.” December 2012
“They always expect kind words from their sons. Probably the mother especially needs this. Now, after the passage of time, I’m not the only one, probably all of us, having grown up, scold ourselves for paying so little attention to our mothers, for saying so few kind words to them and saying little: “Mom, how I love you!” . I really regret that I couldn’t be with her more often then, and I knew how much she loved me. Probably, this love still supports me in life. Even when I make very important, difficult decisions, I dream about her. It happened that she simply dreamed of me and said: “Rest assured, everything will be fine.” So, if she were alive now and I could write her a letter, I would say that I love her very much, I love her very much, I value her.” March 2001
The best quotes from Nursultan Nazarbayev during his Address to the People of the Republic of Kazakhstan
The editors have selected the most striking and remarkable expressions of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan during the annual Address to the people of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
“The government is not working. Akims don’t work, I appeal to everyone - what else do you need? What do you need to do well for people? They gave everything. I warn all akims, this will be an assessment of your performance at the end of the year, whether you will remain in your posts.”
Nazarbayev threatened to fire akims who failed to implement the “7-20-25” program and asks the head of his administration to teach regional heads to solve the housing problems of the population
“We need to increase the protection of businesses from unlawful administrative pressure, threats, criminal prosecution... Why am I saying this? You know that. Today, managers are afraid to sign documents - tomorrow they will come and grab you by the gills. They also scare me: I’ll show you.”
“The committee will check and demand compliance with all instructions... This happens in all countries. We will go out into the streets and ask what people are missing.”
The National Security Committee (NSC) was instructed to catch officials who threaten business, as well as to reorganize the economic investigation service.
“People pay money, housing cooperatives or whoever collects the money and then no one knows what it is spent on. And tariffs and prices are rising. Why? There are no objective reasons, that is, we do not control, we do not look...”
Instructions to sort out utility tariffs.
“It’s time for us to deal with consumer goods, we have forgotten and missed them. Look, if you now have foreign clothes on you sitting here, take away, you will sit here naked. We can produce both suits and shirts - we need to support them...”
The head of the Republic of Kazakhstan demanded that the government provide more aggressive support for the promotion of Kazakh goods both for export and on the domestic market.
“At the same time, society expects a radical improvement in the work of law enforcement agencies. The police should turn out to be a person’s assistant in difficult (conditions), and not a stick for punishment...”
“All (law enforcement) officers must be recertified. Those who don’t pass, only the best should stay, the rest should leave and recruit new people after certification.”
“We need to approve new standards for a police officer; he should not be a punitive person. They took him and made him a policeman - no one teaches him, no one tells him how to work. How so? What do we demand from him..."
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has been instructed to recertify employees, as well as to modernize internal affairs bodies starting in 2019.
“Okay, I say: give money to the business, let's finance it. Who will take these loans? Where are these enterprises that are able to repay loans? This is a government issue, not a bank issue. The whole point is that there is no one to take these loans and no one to repay them. Give us enterprises that operate normally: they use the money and return it with interest. Myrzakhmetov, Kulibayev where? A?".
The President proposes to create a direct investment fund and attract private investors to lend to the manufacturing industry.
“Increasing the well-being of Kazakhstanis should become a top priority... I ask all akims and ministers to always remember this and keep it in mind. It is by this parameter that we will now evaluate the effectiveness and suitability of all managers for their positions.”
The government is instructed to increase the minimum wage by 1.5 times, from 28 thousand to 42 thousand tenge from January 1, 2021.
“...I’m not against universities, let everyone study, but why train unnecessary people and issue diplomas? There is corruption going on there."
Instructions to strengthen security measures and provide educational institutions with video surveillance cameras, as well as pay attention to improving the work of child psychologists.
“They sit in meetings for a hundred days a year! Listen, you don't let people work. I signed a decree: people can go to the government only on Tuesdays, meetings in the morning, meetings in the afternoon. On Monday I receive the president, on Wednesday, Thursday the parliament, on Friday we must work with regional akims and local authorities. Let’s come to an agreement, otherwise ministers, or their deputies, or akims and their deputies are constantly climbing here.”
Nazarbayev demanded that the government reduce the number of meetings and conferences, focusing on the practical solution of the tasks assigned to it.
About faith, religion and wisdom
“Read the Torah, the Koran and the Bible, they contain the most wisdom.” December 2016
“I am categorically against the burqa. We are especially against students and young people wearing hijabs and burqas. We have never had anything like this in history, our religion has never had such a tradition. We need to be able to distinguish true religion from the one imposed on us. But we have our own path." March 2011
Nazarbayev joked about EXPO
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“I made sure that I could ask Nazarbayev any questions”
The publication NUR.KZ quotes Stone’s words about his impressions of the conversation with the long-time leader of Kazakhstan: “I was convinced that I could ask Nazarbayev any questions. Especially those related to the balance between Russia, China and the United States. I believe that in today's world order this is a very important thing. The position that the United States has is a slightly hostile position towards Russia and China, we are seeing this more and more. So I was interested in learning about the balance of power in the world... I believe if the US controls the world, it will be a dangerous situation for everyone. It is important that there is some balance. I see that Mr. Nazarbayev is also interested in this balance, interested in peace. He wants to see this balance... “Nazarbayev is a person who can walk along this “cable car” and find ways for dialogue between people, nations, without any friction. He participated in the negotiations on Ukraine with Russia, which was very useful.”
Stone said Nazarbayev made a good personal impression on him: “We had a lot of fun. He has a great sense of humor. I really liked him, and I hope he liked me too. I know he knows a lot of people, he's lived quite a long life, and overall, I wanted to say that I really liked him. I would love to spend any evening with him.”
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About Me
“They accuse me of all different sins, either like an autocrat or I’m a dictator. I always say: if every five years my people vote for me in alternative elections and never once has this vote been below 80% , what can we talk about?” April 2016
“When you start looking for a replacement, everything around you is trampled, there is no one, “I’m the only one.” There is no one to choose from: “I’m the only one, you see, I’m stuck - you have no others, so stick with me - the next one will be even worse.” October 2015
“If you like me very much, let my photograph be on your desk; officials may have it hanging in a certain format, but don’t get carried away with it,” is the president’s response to the unexpected race in frame photo sizes.” December 2012
A war hero who told the truth about it
Oliver Stone, a three-time Oscar winner, is a man with a very difficult biography. The son of an American military man, he dropped out of university, worked for several months as an English teacher in South Vietnam, and then was called up for military service. He returned to Vietnam as part of the 3rd Battalion of the 25th Infantry Division of the US Army. During the year and a half of the Vietnam campaign, he was wounded and was repeatedly awarded for his valor: the Bronze Star Medal with V, the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the National Defense Service Medal. ", Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge.
The theme of war for him, a veteran, became one of the main ones in his work. In 1971, Stone's debut film was The Last Year in Vietnam.
In 1986, his “Platoon” blew up American society. The film about the Vietnam War, largely autobiographical, not only won four Oscars, but also had huge box office receipts with a very modest budget.
Stone clearly declared himself as a person who relies only on his own views and his own picture of the world and does not strive to please either his colleagues or the public. This applied to both films where Stone acted as a director and those where he was a producer.
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About the leaders
“A leader should not hold the same high position for decades. There is no such mobility. The desire to “appear” in one’s place ultimately creates an aura of infallibility. A time limit is needed here. And, of course, publicity. This is a cure for all diseases. The question is my sincere conviction that any authoritarianism in Kazakhstan is a road to nowhere. Huge portraits of him (we are talking about Kunaev) in all cities and villages, offices, schools, universities - even in bomb shelters! — to some extent identified his name with the fate of Kazakhstan. Hence impunity, violation of the rule of law, concealment of problems, violation of social justice norms.” Magazine "Friendship of Peoples", 1987
About attitude to life
“People who live without a conscious ideal, a high dream, are inevitably captured by the elements of petty philistine interests and momentary material gain.”
“This will not happen in the modern world. If you want to live, acquire new qualities. Change yourself first before criticizing. The government didn’t do something, the akim is not like that. Ask yourself, what did you do? The state does everything. Even if there is no work in the village, they tell you: let’s go to the city, we will give you a profession. Now we give the first working profession for free, then we get you a job. If you want to live at home, take out a microloan, plant a vegetable garden, raise livestock, sell it and live. What else does? That is, we must tell ourselves and our children that a lot depends on us. There is no free thing - we live in a market economy. You know very well where the free cheese is.”
From Natural Born Killers to Comandante
Here you have the iconic “Natural Born Killers”, and perhaps the best sports film in the history of cinema, “Any Given Sunday” with the inimitable Al Pacino in the title role, and the “Wall Street” duology.
Stone's turn to documentary filmmaking began in the 2000s, when the director made the film Comandante, which was based on his interview with Fidel Castro . And then the director over and over again made films about those whom the champions of liberalism listed as the main enemies of humanity, be it Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales or Raul Castro.
But Stone began to arouse truly bestial hatred among certain circles in 2021, having released the film “Ukraine on Fire,” where he looked at the history of Ukrainian statehood, as well as the reasons for the so-called “Gidnost Revolution” from a point of view that radically diverges from the official one. position of the West. In the same year, he presented the feature film Snowden, based on the biography of a man who exposed the secrets of total surveillance by the American intelligence services.
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