It is not far from KIMEP to the “Republic Square” where on August 30 kazak citizens celebrated their constitution, which was adopted 11 years ago. I was at the square at 10 a.m. to look at all the preparations over there to put the stages for performances. Actually banners and other big sized decorations […]
Kazakhstan is sure to bag two international headlines this fall: For one, it’s President Nazarbayev’s second visit to Washington. It is likely that a different event will create more media frenzy than this state visit, though.
Borat’s movie: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is due for release in November. […]
I’t s been a while since I wrote last time for neweurasia.net and now happy start back on writing for the blog. I will start it with talking about leasure time while taking a tript to Medeu sport complex at the Alatau mountains. It takes less a half an hour from […]
Urker (English: constellations) is a well-known Kazakh folk-pop band from Almaty that first appeared in 1993. Despite the small domestic (Kazakh-speaking) pop music market, the band can boast some impressive achievements. neweurasia’s Leila asked Aidos, Urker’s singer (and main songwriter), to answer some questions via Email (the results of which you find below).
The band’s […]
What follows is one part of a cross-blog initiative that commemorates the 1991 Moscow coup and evaluates the years in between.
The Day of the Coup - Worries, no Hopes
On August 19, 1991, the families in different parts of Kazakhstan were glued to their TVs, knowing that something worrying was going on in Moscow but […]
Welcome to our latest round-up of blog posts and online discussions that took place in Kazakh blogosphere. In this overview I present the contributors for neweurasia and some interesting characters of Kazakhstan Livejournal community.
neweurasia’s Basil B. Akimov, a Karaganda journalist and editor of www.mediaprovinces.kz and www.medialaw.kz sites, writes about change of rules in […]
The “third sector” in Kazakhstan, represented by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), currently sponsored by international donors, is fretting about new legal framework that would allow the state to finance them. This new framework was approved by Nazarbayev on July 25, 2006, and it is thought to undermine the NGOs’ independence and serve to support a […]
The term “Great Game” conjures up characters from Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, along with larger-than-life historical figures, predominantly from Britain, such as Charles Stoddart (of the ill-fated mission to Bukhara), Sir Arthur Conolly, among others. They were gentlemen, adventurers, historians, spies, geographers, and academics all at once; most of the alter-egos over at […]
What follows is another translation of a German article about people returning from Kazakhstan. It originally appeared in “Die Zeit”, Germany’s quality weekly. Due to its length, we only present certain passages.
By Ulla Lachauer
Russlanddeutsche cannot call anywhere home - neither Russia, nor Germany. Their biographies are fragmented, their stories resemble political arbitrariness. They come […]
The number of foreign companies that do business in Kazakhstan is growing. They have different experiences of relations with the state, and, as Ben put it, “the level of state intrusion in business and shady backdoor deals is probably not exclusive to Kazakhstan, but what it makes different to other Central Asian countries is […]
