Mauricio Ruiz is a writer and journalist who has lived in the US, Belgium, Mexico and Norway. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Catapult, The Common, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, JMWW, River Teeth, Literal Magazine, among others. He's been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Myriad Editions Competition in the UK, as well as the Fish Short Story Prize in Ireland. He has received fellowships from OMI writers (NY), Société des auteurs (Belgium), Jakob Sande (Norway), Can Serrat (Spain), and the Three Seas' Council (Rhodes). His second book, Silencios al sur, was published in early 2017, and his work has partially been translated into Dutch and French. Mauricio Ruiz can be followed on Twitter and Instagram.
In a significant move to boost its aviation sector and enhance connectivity, Kazakhstan announced its plans to subsidize more than twenty routes. This expansion is aimed […]
The 5th edition of the World Nomad Games, a competition held every 2 years since 2014 to celebrate traditional sports and folk games of historically nomadic […]
Whether or not humans did indeed tame wolves or they allowed themselves to be tamed because of the benefits of living around humans is uncertain, but […]
In a joint effort of the Kazakh government’s forestry and wildlife committee, the Prague zoo, the Tierpark Berlin zoo, the Frankfurt Zoological Society and the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity […]
Almaty Airport, in Kazakhstan, has just opened a brand-new terminal, which should allow it to increase capacity to more than 14 million passengers per year. The […]
At the end of March, Kazakhstan was hit by a series of massive floods, hitting ten of the country’s seventeen regions. Over 119.000 people have since […]
Petroglyphs are rock carvings or engravings found around the world. Dating as far back as 20,000 years, they attest the existence of humans on all continents […]
Kazakhstan is looking to diversify its economy from traditional exports of gas and oil and foreign investment will be crucial in achieving that goal, Prime Minister […]
The Kazakh tourist sector is set to receive an important boost after an announcement from the Central Asian country’s Prime Minister that sees visa restrictions lifted […]
Earlier this year, official consultations on visa facilitation for Kazakh citizens travelling to the EU began after Murat Nurtleu, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign […]
Singing dunes, tiramisu mountains and Genghis Khan’s golden saddle, sounds like a children fairytale. But it’s not fiction, it’s a day in Kazakhstan’s Altyn-Emel National Park. […]
A new project aiming to connect the film industries of the CIS countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) with Europe […]
Astana, known as Akmola before May 1998, is the capital city of Kazakhstan. In December 1997, the city replaced Almaty as the capital, and in May 1998, it […]
On June 8and 9, Kazakhstan’s capital assembled an impressive array of current and former government and industry leaders; policymakers; CEOs of multinational organizations; representatives from International […]
The Kazakh government has announced the launch of the Astana International Forum, a conference to be held on 8-9 June, bringing together the international community to […]