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The tenth anniversary of Astana — the utopian capital city Kazakhstan's first president built on the steppe — observed at the moment between dream and disenchantment.
The tenth anniversary of Astana — the utopian capital city Kazakhstan's first president built on the steppe — observed at the moment between dream and disenchantment.
In 2008, Kazakhstan's capital Astana turned ten years old. Built from scratch in the middle of the steppe by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the city was a piece of monumental futurology — a mirror in which the regime tried to see itself succeeding. Capital is a meditation on that mirror, and the people who live inside it.
"A modern-day city symphony about the construction of Astana."
"The shining promise and the less impressive reality of life in the new capital."
"A city symphony with cast in India."