Man Uses ChatGPT to Challenge Traffic Violation Ticket in Court, Wins
A 23-year-old Kazakh man recently became the first person in his country to use ChatGPT to successfully challenge a traffic violation ticket in a court of law. In December of 2024, Kenzhebek Ismailov was driving his mother to the hospital in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, when the car in front of them stopped for no […]
Unique Ice Volcano in Kazakhstan Attracts Tourists From Far and Wide
The steppes of Kazakhstan’s Almaty region are not the most inviting place, especially in winter time, but one unusual phenomenon has been attracting a lot of tourists there lately. Located between the villages of Kegen and Shyrganak in the middle of a snow-covered plateau is a 14-meter-high ice tower that continuously spouts water which turns […]
Woman Gives Birth to Twins Eleven Weeks Apart
A 29-year-old woman in Kazakhstan stunned doctors after she gave birth to her twin babies no less than 11 weeks apart, an extremely rare abnormality with one in 50 million odds of occurring. When Liliya Konovalova, from the town of Uralsk in northern Kazakhstan, walked into the maternity clinic to see the doctors about her […]
Meet Katya, the Brown Bear Serving a Life Sentence in a Kazakh Prison
Katya, a 36-year-old brown bear, is the only prisoner at the UK-161/2 penal colony in Kostanay, Kazakhstan, to be serving a life sentence. Ironically, even killers imprisoned here have sentences of no longer than 25 years. So what could a bear do to end up in prison? Well, Ekaterina, or Katya as most of the 730 inmates […]
Man Comes Home Two Months After DNA Test Showed That He Was Dead
Aigali Supugaliev, a 63-year-old man from Kazakhstan, almost gave his relatives a heart attack when he returned home two months after they had buried his body. And while stories of people showing up after being presumed dead by their families have made news headlines before, Aigali’s one is particularly bizarre because his death had been […]
Guy Disguises Himself as a Woman, Reaches National Beauty Contest Final
Arina Aliyeva, one of the finalists of the 2018 Miss Virtual Kazakhstan beauty contest, recently shocked the nation after announcing that she was actually a 22-year-old man who had signed up for the national contest to prove an important point. It all started with an argument Eli Diaghilev, a young Kazakh male model, had with […]
Guy Dresses Up as His Girlfriend to Take Tough Exam in Her Place
A lovestruck 20-year-old recently made headlines after he was caught sneaking into an examination hall dressed like a girl. When questioned, Ayan Zhademov confessed that he was trying to take the exam on behalf of his 17-year-old girlfriend! Ayan revealed that his lady friend was totally stressed over the Unified National Testing, an exam used for […]
Kazakh Villagers Replace Guard Dogs with Domesticated Wolves
Who needs guard dogs when you have wolves, right? That’s probably what Kazakh villagers in the Almaty region thought when they decided to replace their canines with the fierce forest-dwelling beasts. According to local news reports, taming wolves is now the latest trend and a sort of hobby among rural Kazakhs. “You can buy a wolf cub […]
Kazakh Woman Says 8-Inch-Long Beard Is the Secret to Her Long Happy Marriage
While some men struggle to grow beards, here’s a 65-year-old woman who managed to sprout one that’s a whopping eight inches long. Her unusual facial hair has made Mukhtabor Toraeva a celebrity in her hometown of Turbat , in southern Kazakhstan. But what’s really bizarre is that she says the beard is the secret to […]