About us
Shanraq.org is an independent platform in three languages: Kazakh, Russian and English. It publishes analysis of Kazakhstan, the economy and the world, teaches free programming courses, and carries real-estate listings. Reading and learning cost nothing and need no account.
Our mission
To give a voice not only to professional journalists but to ordinary people — doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs, students. And to give knowledge to those who have nowhere to take it in their own language: a programming course in Kazakh is a rare thing, and it is one of the reasons this platform exists.
Free courses
All published lessons are free and need no account. Courses still in progress grow as new lessons are released:
- Go: from zero to your own blog — 50 lessons, from installing the language to a working site with a database, sign-in, search and a deployment of its own. The course is finished.
- Python: from data to your own digest — 55 lessons on data and AI: fetch open data, calculate, chart, and assemble a report. The course is complete.
- SQL: a family budget without guesswork — 13 lessons from a first table to an auditable report and verified backup. Works on computers, tablets, and phones.
- Rust: from zero to your own organizer — 60 lessons from the first program to a tested console-app release.
- AI without an LLM: build your own model — 30 lessons on a local Kazakh text model, source checks, quality measurement, and honest refusal.
- Cloud & DevOps: from a local app to a reliable service — 24 lessons on Linux, containers, CI/CD, cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and recovery.
Every lesson comes out in all three languages at once, and the code inside speaks the language of its lesson.
How three languages work
An author writes in one language; the platform translates it into the other two, and the author checks that translation and corrects it where needed. It then compares the versions: numbers, links, headings and paragraphs must match, and it warns when they do not. Machine translation is labelled, and the columns of our AI author, AI Dake, appear under that name with an “AI opinion” mark.
Our principles
- Verifiability. Facts that can be checked, and numbers that were measured rather than imagined.
- Respect. A professional tone instead of insults.
- Openness. Transparent rules and resilience to arbitrary blocking: everything new goes out on Telegram and in RSS as well.
- Knowledge is free. The courses are open now and will stay open.
Shanraq.org is a home where free voices meet.