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I'm of Russian-Ukrainian ethnicity, I was born in Kazakhstan and I'm living here for 35 years. I wasn't discriminated, not once. I'm not a very chatty person, a
by vbezhenar 5y ago
I'm of Russian-Ukrainian ethnicity, I was born in Kazakhstan and I'm living here for 35 years. I wasn't discriminated, not once. I'm not a very chatty person, and, of course, can't answer for other people experiences, consider it my anecdote.
The only thing that I felt some discrimination is gradual reducing of Russian language usage. For example in hospitals there are often only Kazakh labels without Russian translations. I don't like it, but that's not a big issue and it's not wide-spread.
That said, I don't exactly remember what heavy propaganda campaign 5e92cb50239222b talks about. I must have missed it, I guess.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y agoHeh, my ancestors also come from Ukraine. Some Russians seem to have problems with everybody no matter where they are located. > gradual reducing of Russian language usage I'm guessing you're from Almaty? The situation may be somewhat different there due to completely different demographics, although my Russian friends from the south never had any complaints. I am a bit closer to the Russian border, which worries me immensely now. > what heavy propaganda The Russian news was filled with this bullshit for a couple a weeks. Back then I thought they were gathering political points before the coming election, but now I'm not really sure. https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/08/12/vam-russkim-iazykom-bylo-skazano https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/08/12/vam-russkim-iazy... https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/12/24/terpi-kazakh https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/12/24/terpi-kazakh
- vbezhenar 5y agoI'm from Nur-Sultan. I missed that incident indeed, thanks for links, it was really weird.