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1 | What President Nazarbayev's Foie Gras Faux Pas Tells Us About Kazakhstan | Inona Mikasika An’i Kazakhstan No Ambaran’ny Hadisoam-pamindran'ny Filoha Nazarbayev Momba Ny Aty Matavy (Foie Gras) Amintsika |
2 | Moulard duck foie gras with pickled pear. | Moulard atin-gàna matavy miaraka amin'ny poara misy vinaingitra. |
3 | Wikipedia image. | Sary avy amin'ny Wikipedia. |
4 | It was his Marie Antoinette moment; the throwaway comment that revealed him to be painfully out of touch with the economic reality and growing inequality inside his oil-rich country. | Fotoana Marie Antoinette izany ho azy; ny fanehoankevitra fanary izay nampiseho fa tena tsy mifandray amin'ny zava-misy ara-toekarena sy ny tsy fitoviana mitombo hatrany ao anatin'ny fireneny manankarena solitany izy. |
5 | And the Internet duly fish-slapped him for it. | Ary felaka rambon-trondro ho azy ny Aterineto raha ny tokony ho izy. |
6 | Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, 75, commands considerable popularity in the 17 million-strong ex-Soviet state he has ruled over since before independence in 1991. | Ny Filoha Nursultan Nazarbayev any Kazakhstan, 75 taona, manana ny laza goavana ao anatin'ny fanjakana matanjaka ao amin'ny Firaisana Sovietika teo aloha 17 tapitrisa izay notantaniny hatramin'ny talohan'ny fahaleovantena tamin'ny 1991. |
7 | But there is also a growing demographic in the Central Asian country that wants change. | Nefa misy ihany koa ny fitombon'ny mponina izay mitady fanovàna ao amin'ilay firenena ao Azia Afovoany. |
8 | This mostly consists of young people tired of a system burdened by inefficiency and corruption and an economy that hinges on the global price for oil. | Izany dia ahitana indrindra ny tanora leo ny rafitra vesaran'ny tsy fahombiazana sy ny kolikoly ary ny toekarena miankina amin'ny vidin-tsolika maneran-tany. |
9 | Many of them live on Facebook and Twitter. | Maro amin'izy ireo no miaina ao amin'ny Facebook sy Twitter. |
10 | It was this same demographic that exploded when Nazarbayev said on September 7 during a working visit to the Akmola region in central Kazakhstan: | Izany mponina izany ihany no nipoaka rehefa injay niteny i Nazarbayev tamin'ny 7 Septambra, nandritra ny fitsidihana arak'asa tany amin'ny faritr'i Akmola ao Kazakhstan afovoany, hoe: |
11 | The most important thing is we have food. | Ny zava-dehibe indrindra dia ny fananantsika sakafo. |
12 | Everything else - Western clothes - we can live without. | Ny zavatra hafa rehetra - ny fitafiana Tandrefana - afaka miaina tsy misy izany isika. |
13 | Correct? | Marina? |
14 | Without foie gras, bananas, which are harmful for us […] we can also live without the best, hugest Land Cruisers. | Tsy mila aty matavy, akondro, izay manimba ny tenantsika […] afaka miaina ihany koa isika raha tsy misy ny Land Cruisers tsara indrindra, lehibe indrindra. |
15 | Nazarbayev called on the people to understand the rise in fuel prices and not eat foie gras. | Nangataka ny vahoaka hahatakatra ny fiakaran'ny vidin-tsolika sy ny tsy hihinana aty matavy i Nazarbayev. |
16 | The context for Nazarbayev's comments is bottom-of-the-barrel prices for Kazakhstan's main export: crude oil. | Ny zava-misy manodidina ny fanehoankevitra nataon'i Nazarbayev dia ny fahambanian'ny vidin‘ny barila amin'ny fanondranana lehibe indrindra ao Kazakhstan: ny solika tsy voadio. |
17 | The collapse in the global oil price, as well as the economic meltdown in neighbouring Russia, has ushered in an era of austerity in Kazakhstan, which recorded impressive GDP growth in the first decade after the millennium. | Ny fitotonganan'ny vidin-tsolika maneran-tany, sy ny krizy ara-toekarena ao Rosia mpifanolo-bodirindrina, no niteraka ny vaninandron'ny fitsitsiana tany Kazakhstan, izay nahitana fitombon'ny harinkarena faobe mahavariana tao anatin'ny taona folo voalohany taorian'ny arivo taona faharoa. |
18 | Yet even during times of peak oil, not all Kazakhs had been getting foie gras takeaways in their Land Cruisers. | Kanefa, na nandritra ny vanim-potoana nidanganan'ny vidin'ny solika aza, tsy ny Kazakhs rehetra no hitondra Aty Matavy ao anatin'ny Land Cruisers-ny. |
19 | Many had never even heard of the duck or goose liver speciality. | Maro no mbola tsy nandre mihitsy ny fahaizana manokana momba ny fikarakaràna atin-gana na gisa. |
20 | They were quick to let him know: | Haingana ny nampahafantaran'izy ireo azy an'izany: |
21 | [In the picture: Our version of foie-gras] That time when you had never tried foie gras and they banned you from eating it. | [Eo amin'ny sary : Ny karazana aty matavy-nay] Ny fotoana izay tsy mbola nanandramanao mihitsy aty matavy ary nandraràny anao tsy hihinana izany. |
22 | [Title of the tweeted article: After parliamentary elections, prices will go up by 15%] Now we really won't be able to afford foie-gras! | [Lohatenin'ilay lahatsoratra nobitsihana: Aorian'ny fifidianana solombavambahoaka, hiakatra 15% ny vidin'entana] Ankehitriny tena tsy ho afaka hividy aty matavy isika! |
23 | In a bizarre defence of the president's bizarre comments, Nazarbayev's press-secretary Dauren Abaev said that his “figurative expression” had allowed Kazakhs to “let off steam”. | Tamin'ny fiarovana hafahafa ny fanehoankevitra hafahafa nataon'ny filoha, nilaza i Dauren Abaev, mpitantsoratr'i Nazarbayev ary mpandrindra ny fifandraisana amin'ny media, fa ny “teny an'ohatra” nataony no nahafahan'ny Kazakhs “nanàna ny mavesatra taminy”. |
24 | Abaev noted Nazarbayev was working “without rest” for the country's benefit, but did not comment on why he thought bananas were harmful. | Nanamarika i Abaev fa niasa “tsy nisy fitsaharana” i Nazarbayev ho tombontsoan'ny firenena, fa tsy naneho hevitra kosa momba izay antony fiheverany hoe manimba ny akondro. |
25 | As always, the regime was indebted to an army of online supporters (or perhaps just one person writing something very similar again and again) who spammed the comments section on Tengri News, the independent media outlet where the foie gras quotes first appeared: | Toy ny mahazatra, manana trosa amin'ny tafika mpanohana aty anaty tranonkala ny fitondrana (na angamba olona iray ihany fa manoratra zavatra tena mitovy fotsiny, averimberina) izay mandoto ny fizaràna fanehoankevitra ao amin'ny Tengri News, media tsy miankina izay voalohany nisehoan'ilay firesahana aty matavy : |
26 | Of course the people understand that this was a figurative expression. | Mazavaloatra fa takatry ny vahoaka hoe fanehoana an'ohatra izany. |
27 | We are with Elbasy [Nazarbayev's ‘Leader of the Nation' title], we are for the unity of Kazakhstan! | Miaraka amin'i Elbasy izahay [Nazarbayev ‘Filohan'ny Firenena'], manohana ny firaisankina ao Kazakhstan izahay! |
28 | The people are always with their leader! | Miaraka amin'ny mpitarika azy mandrakariva ny vahoaka! |
29 | After nearly three decades in the hotseat, Nazarbayev is not about to lose his political mojo over one slip of the tongue. | Taorian'ny telopolo taona eo ho eo tao anaty kiana mamay, tsy mbola very ny talenta politikan'i Nazarbayev manoloana ny teny tsy ambina. |
30 | But what lessons, if any, can he and his communications team draw from this episode? | Inona anefa no lesona, raha nisy, azon'izy sy ny ekipam-pifandraisany nosintonina tamin'ity ampahany ity? |
31 | Writing on Facebook Rinat Balgabaev had some hard-to-hear but useful advice for the people at the top: | Nanoratra tao amin'ny Facebook i Rinat Balgabaev ka nanome torohevitra sarotra henoina nefa mahasoa ho an'ny olona ambony: |
32 | In times of crisis, if there are no cakes to hand out, PR should work punctually, and very subtly, so as not to aggravate the situation. | Amin'ny fotoanan'ny krizy, raha tsy misy mofomamy hozaraina, tokony hiasa ara-potoana ny PR, ary tena am-pitandremana, mba tsy hampitombo ny fahasarotan'ny toe-draharaha. |
33 | When the subject of PR loves to improvise, speaking from his own life experience, it is important that that experience speaks to the present moment. | Raha tia manao zavatra tsy misy fiomanana ny olon'ny PR, niresaka ny traikefa ananany amin'ny fiainany manokana, ny zava-dehibe dia tokony hiresaka ny fotoana ankehitriny io traikefa io. |
34 | In the case of such difficult subjects of PR like the President, who is at the same time also the main object of PR (i.e. its main consumer), it is difficult to predict - let alone regulate - the process of improvisation. | Amin'ny lohahevitra sarotra toy izany ho an'ny PR toy ny filoha, izay sady tena ilay zavatra ifantohan'ny PR ihany koa, (izany hoe ny tena mpanjifany), sarotra ny maminavina -tsy latsak'izany ny mandamina - ny dingana hanaovan-javatra tsy voaomana. |
35 | It is certainly possible, but difficult. | Azo atao tokoa izany, saingy sarotra. |
36 | After all, for all [Nazarbayev's] alarmism in previous speeches, he has long been unable to assess himself objectively, or accept his own role in creating this crisis. | Rehefa dinihina tokoa, amin'izay rehetra fampielezana tsaho nataon'i [Nazarbayev] tamin'ny kabary teo aloha, efa ela izy no tsy afaka manao tombana tsy misy fitanilàna na dia momba ny tenany ihany aza, na manaiky ny anjara asany teo amin'ny famoronana ity krizy ity. |
37 | But you can start by not putting Land Cruisers into his mouth, which might grow into foie gras or, forgive me God, bananas. | Nefa afaka manomboka amin'ny tsy fametrahana Land Cruisers eo am-bavany ianao, izay mety mitombo ao anaty aty matavy na, mamelà ahy Andriamanitra o, ny akondro. |