Newsletter from 13th of March

Hi, DEAR READER, we are back! it is 13th of march and we are here to tell you the latest news! Have a good and productive week!

The digest was made while listening to Charles Brown – Blue Holiday

Politics. Kazakhstan entered the ranking of countries with strong GDP indicators according to S&P.K

Standard & Poor’s is a company belonging to the top three most influential international rating agencies. According to the company, Kazakhstan is included and even overtakes Russia in terms of budgetary indicators of the external economy. Kazakhstan looks the most promising for foreign investors. S&P confirmed the long-term and short-term sovereign credit ratings of Kazakhstan for liabilities in foreign and national currencies with a “stable” outlook. A budget surplus during a period of high commodity prices plays a key role in the political balance of the country.

However, there is a risk for investors. in Kazakhstan, the potentially low predictability of future political decisions due to the high centralization of political processes, as well as only a moderate level of well-being.

The outlook for economic growth in Kazakhstan S & P estimates slightly better than the Russian Federation and according to the rating company Fitch. Kazakhstan has the highest rating in terms of budget indicators. Russia surpasses its neighbors in monetary policy, which is rated by S & P as more flexible and reliable, ”the report says.

Photo is taken from liter.kz/
culture. Big Bang’s member Seungri charged over prostitution ring.

Because of his taste for high life people call Seungri “K-pop’s Great Gatsby”. But now he is facing some charges that he supplied prostitutes for businessmen in some of Seoul’s most fashionable nightclubs. Prostitution is illegal in South Korea. So the singer faces up to 3 years in prison.

Police claims that the nightclub, where Seungri was a public relations director, was involved in illegal drug use, sexual assaults and police corruption. Officers had confiscated Seungri’s passport now that he was officially regarded as a suspect. But he denied allegations. The case is still under investigation.

Seungri wrote in his Instagram account that he quits the pop industry. “As this scandal is too big, I have decided to retire. As for the ongoing investigation, I will take it seriously to clear myself of all the allegations.” he said. Also he thanked his fans for the love and support.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aflo/REX/Shutterstock (9921385n) Seungri from BIGBANG, attends a press conference. Oct 2018
Sport. The seventh round of the team championship in Astana brought the team of Kazakhstan losses.

In the seventh round of the World Cup in Astana, the women’s team met with Georgian chess players, and the men’s team with a young and ambitious team from Iran. Matches of the women’s section did not work out from the very beginning. In 2018, at the meeting in Batumi with the Georgian team, the girls won and at the championship in Astana, the Georgians took the revenge.

The men’s team also failed to beat the rivals – the youngest championship team, the Iranian team.
Kazakhstani sensationally beat legendary chess player Karjakin
As a result, draws were recorded on the three boards, and Iranian champion Firuzdzh Alireza won in one game.
The women’s team continues to occupy the sixth position in the standings, the men’s ranks eighth.
From 4 to 14 March 2019, the World Team Chess Championship is taking place in Astana, in which 10 men’s and 10 women’s teams from 14 countries take part.

Zhansaya Abdumalik. Photo : Kazakhstan’s Chess Federation
Society. New zealand’s doctors are vaccinating citizens outside the clinics.

In New Zealand, vaccinations against measles are used outside the clinics. Doctors are trying to reduce the spread of measles,
an infectious viral disease. Number of cases of measles rose to 25.
Some number of measles cases took place in the Canterbury region of the South Island. Health department stated that there are 100,000 people, who need vaccination, even though clinics are going to run off vaccines soon.

In order not to increase risks, doctors vaccinate people outside, on the car parks and outdoor. David Clark, health authority minister, said that government officials are attentively monitoring the situation in Canterbury, they are trying to find a solution to prevent large scale of measles.

Vaccine supplies have run out the Canterbury region, where 100,000 people need to be vaccinated, Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
education. Pupil of NIS school derived an equation for the placement of boreholes.

A student of the Kyzylorlinskaya NIS, Zhanagul Tynysbek, with the project “Mathematical Model of the Installation of Wells in a Gas Field” won the silver medal at an international competition among more than 300 research projects in mathematics and mechanics, reports “Khabar24”.

The girl derived a mathematical equation that allows efficient placement of drilling structures to bring oil and gas products out of great depths to the surface. That will be useful in oil industry in Kazakhstan.

Thus, “one geographically well-defined well will produce as many products as, say, three at different points”,as girls commended.

NIS Kyzylorda. Photo was taken from the google.com/
Add-ons

Photo of the week


A dhobi (washerman) hangs clean clothes on a rope for drying at the Mahalaxmi dhobi ghat. Photograph: Divyakant Solanki/EPA
Here is a great article about introverts. Sirin Kale shared her story, read it!

Digest was prepared by Smagulova Evelina, Mudegeyeva Dilnaz, Aubakirova Nargiz and Kulyassova Azhar.

Newsletter from 10th of March

Hi, dear reader! It is 10th of March and we offer you to read the most interesting news stories of the week! On 8th of March the whole planet celebrated International Women Day, so we made a digest of articles related to women and their rights! On behalf of the entire editorial board, we wish you to be strong, independent and confident in yourself and your strength! Let’s read!

This digest was made while listening to Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss me

POLITICS. Hillary Clinton is not going to participate in 2020 presidential elections.

Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party’s nominee for President in US in the 2016 election and the first woman nominated by a major-party, said on 4th of March that she is not running for president again in 2020, even though it was clear long time ago without an official statement.

“I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe.”

Hillary Clinton told News12, NYC television station

In the interview, Clinton assured everyone that she will still be present in politics.

“I want to be sure that people understand I’m going to keep speaking out, I’m not going anywhere.”

Hillary Clinton on October 9, 2016 in St Louis, Missouri. Photo by Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images
CULTURE. Female photojournalists speak out about prejudices and sexism.

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, freelance journalist in TheGuardian.com, made a material, where she talked to some famous female photojournalists. They told her about difficulties, gender prejudices and advantages of being woman in this industry.

Cybele Malinowski, 37, is a photojournalist, based in Sydney.
Malinowski faced discrimination while doing her work. Sometimes clients thought that she was makeup artist or stylist on set, sometimes people thought her male assistant was a real photographer.

“We want to show future female photographers: yes, of course, you can do it. If you’re hungry, you’re talented, you’re driven, you can definitely get there.”


Cybele Malinowski in interview for Sebag-Montefiore

Malinowski decided to fight with sexism with all her strength. In 2018 she co-founded Agender with entrepreneur Angela Liang, a platform for female photographers with the purpose of exchanging ideas, thoughts and etc. Balance For Better is their second exhibition, it will open on 9 March to celebrate International Women’s Day. 50% of profit will be donated to Sydney Women’s Fund.


Wild + Free by Elise Hassey
SPORTS. U.S. women’s soccer team files gender discrimination suit against its own federation.

All 28 members of the world champion United States women’s national team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation on Friday. The exacerbation of a long-running fight over pay equity and working conditions that comes only months before the championate begin defense of its Women’s World Cup title.

Superstars such as Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan sued the United States Soccer Federation over pay and workplace issues.
The civil complaint was launched in federal court in Los Angeles, marking another major step in an ongoing fight between players and the federation over pay and workplace issues.


US team during She Believes Cup in March 2019. Photograph: Douglas DeFelice/USA Today Sports
SOCIETY. A women’s march dedicated to International Women’s Day took place in the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

On March 8, women and even men gathered near the center of Bishkek to hold a women’s march. Women complain that people are used to seeing this holiday in the form of gifts and flowers. The march became a reminder of what the holiday is really about: women’s equality and emancipation.
The day before the event, the nationalist movement “Kyrk Choro” threatened to thwart the “unconventional”, in their opinion, event, but, fortunately, there were no clashes.

The police were obviously nervous and even drove the paddy wagon to the place of the rally. But there were no attacks on the protesters.
About 150 people took part in the march. People went to the streets with slogans about women’s rights, violence and sexism. Purple flags became the symbol of the march. As the participant of the march explained “purple is the color of feminism”.
Also, many people wrote their slogans about LGBT rights, corruption, and other issues that concern them.
The march in honor of the International Day of Women’s Solidarity and the struggle for equal rights takes place annually.


A rally for International Women’s Day in Bishkek. Photo by Aisha Jabbarova.
EDUCATION. chain of Colleges with thousands of students closes down.

Education Department approved a proposal by a Dream center, Christian non-profit organization to buy a chain of colleges with troubles. Some people predicted that this idea is going to fail, but no one expected it would be so fast. About a year after the deal, major part of DC campuses are out of money and are planned to be closed until Friday, 8th March. Other colleges were sold, hopefully they will survive.

Argosy University, South University and the Art Institutes are the ones, which have problems. They have about 26,000 students in medicine, psychology and law programs.

The problems started almost immediately after Dream Center bought the schools in 2017. They were accompanied by efforts of government to regulate for-profit colleges industry. The Dream Center’s began it’s charity 25 years ago. It has a network all over the country and it’s purpose is to solve problems like homelessness and domestic violence.

Dream Center’s logo.
ADD-ons.

Photo of the week


Bogota, Colombia. Women participate in a rally during International Women’s Day celebrations. Photograph: Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters
We offer you to read this interesting article by Maya Salam about feminism in Sweden. So cool!
That’s it for today! Thanks for reading us and stay tuned for next weekly digest!

Digest was prepared by Smagulova Evelina, Mudegeyeva Dilnaz, Aubakirova Nargiz and Kulyassova Azhar.

Digital Identity

Who is this mysterious mademoiselle?

Our first personal project topic – Digital Identity. My victim is Aidana, she is my groupmate and really close friend. I know some of Aidana’s social media, so it makes my work much easier. Luckily, Aidana has got a lot of social media accounts and she is quite active there. 

@thewisemoon in Instagram

Social media list:

vk

tumblr

LinkedIn

wordpress

pinterest

instagram

Aidana’s hw for the Turkish language. Thanks to Universe I can understand her 😀

Aidana was born on 23rd of June and her name was given her by her mother and sister. From the Kazakh language, it means wise moon, and that is the reason why most of Aidana’s media profiles consist of these words. In VK her surname is Baigaraeva and in LinkedIn, it is Mamyrbekova, so random person can’t know exactly what is her surname. She was born and still lives in Almaty, according to her geolocation on Instagram posts, and studies at Suleyman Demirel University in Journalism School. From LinkedIn, I discovered that she will graduate in 2022. The reason why she chose SDU was that she considers herself as a very creative person (I agree with that haha) and this university was one of the best options. Aidana finished Arts School, she is deeply involved in graphic design, sculpture, photography, pistional art and wants to improve photo reporting skills.

When it comes to family, Aidana says that she was raised in a matriarchy, around gorgeous women. Her family consists of Aidana, her mom, grandma, aunt, sister and small nephew. Her mom’s name is Saule and she is a businesswoman and Aidana’s role model. Aunt is a physicist and natural philosopher, sister is an economist, who studies and raises a two-year-old baby boy. Her grandma is a wonderful and inspiring woman, she went through the majority of hardships and still continues to be strong.

Aidana is a graduate of Arts School, so right now she works as a graphic designer at aqparat.kz, news portal which is going to begin work soon. Aidana is a socially active person, she volunteered at Universiade 2017 in Almaty, she said it was a huge experience accompanied by new acquaintances. After some time spent on her VK dashboard, I found out that Aidana is a feminist and she actively supports women and encourages them to be strong and proud of themselves!

Photo from my archive, 2018

What are Aidana’s hobbies? As was said earlier, Aidana is really into photography. I saw photos where she was tagged as a photographer, and no doubt she is doing great shots. I analyzed Aidana’s Tumblr page, VK subscriptions and came to the conclusion that she enjoys aesthetic photos, fashion, celebrities and astrology. She also follows groups dedicated to literature, books, art and study. According to her Instagram account, Aidana visited Germany, France and Italy. She loves travelling and discovering new cultures. In actual stories, there are short videos from Aidana’s everyday life. Aidana seems to be BeyHive, which means Beyonce fan. She was a Directioner (One Direction fan) back in 2014 and her bias is Harry Styles. She has lots of videos, posts, and follows communities about Beyonce and 1D in VK. As I understood, she does not have a particular taste in music, I suppose that she is a meloman, who can listen to different music genres and find something for her. I also mentioned that she creates her own playlists, each one is aimed for a special mood or season (she even made one especially for me!). On her dashboard in VK, Aidana posts moments from a lot of films and tv-dramas. Her favourite tv-series are the Game of Thrones.

Aidana follows accounts of her groupmates, colleagues from Kazakh group, old classmates, some celebrities, like Shawn Mendes, James Charles, Will Smith, and friends. People with whom Aidana communicates the most through Instagram are Elina Assanova, groupmate, and Meruyert Khudaibergen, Aidana’s close friend.

After the survey of Aidana’s social media, I can say that she is a very versatile and creative person, who is an active user of the Internet. From her Instagram page, I made a conclusion that she is not afraid to be funny or natural.  

Photo from my archive, 2018

By making this project we can understand how much the Internet affects our appearance in the eyes of others. We can create an image of ourselves to look better and more successful. New algorithms and bots allow journalists to collect information about their target audience. This is a powerful tool, which should be used carefully and thoughtfully.