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Kazakhstan
The country's economy, technology, and digital markets, reported with local sources and Central Asian context.
The Marketplace Is Dead. It Will Call You
How Timur Turlov's Freedom is buying a marketplace that stopped paying people, why the holding is resurrecting it under its own name — and why Kaspi, for the first time in a decade, faces a challenger with real ammunition.
Silicon on Coal
Kazakhstan signed $10 billion in deals with NVIDIA and Firebird — and the electricity to run all that AI will be dug straight out of coal. What's actually in the deal, what it will cost, and where we've seen this movie before.
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Lazy Arithmetic: How AI Mines Gold Out of Kaspi
An MCP connector for Kaspi — Kazakhstan's dominant marketplace: Claude pulls niches, prices, and the “no-brand” share on its own.
Lick Beauty: Seven Million Followers vs. 420 Tenge
How a brand with 7 million followers lost to a knockoff that sells for under a dollar.
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