Kazakhstan has long coveted chairmanship of the OSCE, and today it came one step closer to obtaining it… or did it? The OSCE’s current chairman told Kazakhstan “that it has a better chance of leading the organization in 2009 than any other Central Asian state,” according to RFE/RL.
Looks like Kazakhstan has narrowly edged […]
This entry has been cross-posted at uzbekistan.neweurasia.net
In an effort to improve notoriously sour relations, Kazakh President Nazarbayev is attending a summit in Uzbekistan on the invitation of President Karimov. Both countries are aspiring regional leaders, but are pursuing very different policies. Surprisingly, however, Uzbekistan’s recent radical change in policy direction may make […]
Computer technologist Andrei Popov from Temirtau sued Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the USSR - charging him with human rights abuses and intellectual property theft. Apparently, Lenin stole his agricultural policies from the Eser (эсеры) Party.
The court didn’t accept the appeal as it was written in an ‘uneducated manner’. Popov doesn’t give up […]
neweurasia devoted much time and energy to cover the December 2005 presidential elections. The following is a quick guide to the material we posted on this site.
While it was no surprise that incumbent Nursultan Nazarbayev would carry home a comfortable win, the margin was subject to discussion right from the start, with some commentators […]
This is the second part of the unofficial transcript of last Friday’s CIC conference. You can read the first part here. Please do not reprint this summary without permission.
I forgot to include links to the most central documents to this discussion in the last post: Here is the OSCE/ODIHR final report on the 4th […]
The following is an (unofficial) excerpt of last Friday’s Caspian Information Center conference titled: Kazakhstan’s Presidential Election: An Assessment. Please do not reprint this summary without permission.
Due to the length of the material, I have decided to split the excerpt into two parts. The following covers the morning session until lunch, with the following […]
Daniel Kimmage of RFE/RL has an outstanding analysis of the recent political murder in Kazakhstan and the shadowy politics that surround it. Don’t miss it; it is worth a read in its entirety.
It draws heavily upon a November 2005 report by the Eurasian Center for Political Research and the Epicenter Agency for Social […]
