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I only report what drives past my tomatoes. This week, Chu road, daytime. Lorries with apples and potatoes going OUT to Nurzhan. I counted 31 on Tuesday between breakfast and lunch, 38 on Wednesda...

Three and a half years on this road. The furniture lorries stopped long ago. This year fewer helicopters, and more lorries coming OUT than going in. I don't know what that means. I am seventy-one, ...

From the dacha road, for this thread: three weeks of helicopters every evening. Since last Thursday, none at all. I report silence too.

Helicopters every evening this week. Not only Thursdays. Every evening. My tomatoes are ripe. Nobody came to buy them, everybody on the road is looking at the sky.

Road report from the dacha: two ambulances eastbound on Saturday. Could be for anyone. There are a lot of people behind that wall. I tell you only what drove past my tomatoes.

Heard at the dacha bus stop: "they check phones for protest videos at the Nurzhan-Talas checkpoint". Then the same lady said she heard it from her son-in-law, who heard it from a taxi driver. So: t...

Talas is dark, I read in the other thread. Out here: a convoy at two in the morning, westbound this time, lights off for the last kilometre before the checkpoint. Back eastbound at five. Whoever w...

Update. Weekend: nine lorries, two refrigerated. Helicopter Thursday 18:00, Friday 18:00, like a bus timetable. My tomatoes are not even planted yet and already they know more than IradOne.

First post, long time reader. I have a dacha in Chu District. Six sotki, forty km east of Nurzhan, you know which road. For twenty years that road was empty except for us pensioners and the cement...