Reports from various sources are suggesting that soon the Civil Party of Kazakhstan (CPK) will announce that it to, like that of Asar, will merge with the main pro-presidential party Otan. If anything, the move is nothing but expected. It is the logical conclusion of the National Coalition of parties which supported President Nazarbayev […]
This is a translation of Adam Kesher’s post published on Russian-language neweurasia.
“Some countries have gone ahead of Western democracies in press freedom situation, while the most repressive countries have stayed as they were” - these words opened the fifth index of freedom of mass media, published annually by “Reporters Without Borders”. Kazakhstan has […]
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President Nazarbayev rejected the nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Peoples Assembly, reports Gazeta.kz. In the good-old fashion of the benevolent statesman, Nazarbayev expressed his gratitude, but also said that…
“…we are working not for awards, but for our country’s prestige.”
Unfortunately, the short article does not give any details about the reasons […]
Recent excavations of the Botai Culture sites of Krasnyi Yar and Vasilkovka in northern Kazakhstan have unearthed an ancient corral for keeping horses. Now, the fact that Kazakhs have a long-standing equine tradition is not news per se, but evidence suggests that the ancient inhabitants of what is today Kazakhstan were among the first […]
Despite the increased spending for education, research and development, Kazakh Universities still do not offer a high level of education, while the job market is not ready to place graduates.
Ben reported back in May that Kazakhstan is to increase spending on science development by 25 times until 2012, reaching 350 billion tenge, and recetly […]
It happens sometimes that a blogger suddenly becomes a reporter, finding himself in the middle of breaking news. This is about the Atyrau Informant, a blog from Atyrau, the city in Western Kazakhstan rich in oil and foreign oil companies. The original goal of the blog is to serve as a portal for exchange […]
With eyes peeled for anything weird coming out of Kazakhstan to proof Sacha Baron Cohen’s rather brutal take on the Central Asian country, it was only a matter of time before this would happen. Under the heading “Is Borat right about Kazakhstan? Now they have mis-spelt their banknotes”, the Evening Standard marks the way […]
As Esbergen reported on the Russian version, President Nazarbayev recently pledged to increase the spending on education and science by factor 25, so that by 2012, Kazakhstan’s science budget would constitute 5% of its GDP. To put these numbers into context, the EU’s goal is to achieve a Research and Development (R&D) share of […]
Editor: From the deep grounds of our archive, this article Nurzhan wrote back in February (and never posted due to ongoing research) is very interesting in the light of the ongoing Russian-Georgian crisis. Nathan, in a post on The Registan, discussed Kazakhstan’s position in the conflict and whether the country has to take sides […]
Deep Purple, the ‘dinosaurs of hard rock’, have been booked to play at the 15th anniversary of Kazkommertsbank in Almaty tomorrow.
So, if you’re around, you should certainly check whether you can sneak in the Palace of the Republic to get your dose of their latest LP ‘Rapture of the Deep’. According to Deep […]
