As reported on this blog before, Kazakhstan aims to diversify its energy sources and has long flirted with the idea to build a nuclear plant. This comes despite the pivotal role protests against nuclear testing took during perestroika.
Focus reports that Kazakhstan’s nuclear state agency Kazatomprom has found a partner in building the first nuclear […]
This is a translation of a post by Basil B. Akimov, published in Russian on the Russian-language version of our blog.
It looks like the Kazakh healthcare has decided to reach the top place in the hit-parade of this week’s scandals. After the tragedy of the infants infected with HIV, the Karaganda people were […]
Welcome to our latest round-up of blog posts and online discussions that took place in Russian and English-language Neweurasia blog and the wider Kazakh blogosphere in the last two weeks.
The “Zhumbaktas” (”Enigma”) rock in Borovoe, mountaneous place with lakes between Astana and Kokshetau, is surrounded with legends. One of them is that a […]
On Thursday, July 6th, H.E. Kassymzhomart Tokaev, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, spoke in a W.P. Carey Forum for the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Tokaev was also Prime Minister of Kazakhstan for four years, and has served the government since 1975.
The event was well attended and surprisingly […]
According to the CIA World Factbook, there are only 400.000 Internet users and 20.327 Internet hosts in Kazakhstan (2005 data). For comparison - Kazakhstan has a little over 15 million people, Belarus - a little over 10 million, 1.6 million of which are Internet users. Surely, it is still more than in other […]
The President of Russia signed a decree on voluntary resettlement of ethnic Russians from the republics of former Soviet Union to Russia. The decree promises to open the offices in former Soviet countries, where the ethnic Russians can enroll into the state program, which will offer repatriants assistance with finding a work place, help […]
Amid the news surrounding the controversial new media law, a sideshow event took place this week on July 4th that provides interesting consideration. Otan, the largest pro-presidential political party, and Asar, the second largest have joined forces as one single political entity. While for many this should not necessarily come as any surprise, due […]
Now that the controversial media law has been signed by the President, Information Minister Yermukhamet Yertysbayev plans to tighten control of the World Wide Web’s Kazakhstan part, according to Reuters.
Internet journalism and other loosely regulated media could harm Kazakhstan’s national security.
Yertysbaev promised to develop the state policy on Kazakh web by the end of […]
We’ve prepared a fresh roundup of blog posts and online discussions that took place on Russian-language Neweurasia and in a wider Kazakh blogosphere in the last few days.
On a World Refugee Day, 20 June, I overviewed the situation with the refugees in Kazakhstan. Using the data of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees […]
On our Russian Kazakhstan blog, Leila picked up and discussed a story from the NYT about the new and changing face of Almaty. The author of the NYT feature, Ilan Greenberg, is impressed by the optimistic mood abound. Also the editor of the Kazakhstan edition of Cosmopolitan magazine, is cheerful:
“There’s a new style here. […]
