Translation of Adam Kesher’s post from Russian-language neweurasia Kazakhstan.
James Giffen, a 65-year old American businessman, charged by the US Prosecutor with paying the bribes to top officials in Kazakhstan, will be able to use his “defense of state interests” position in the trial. This decision was announced on Friday, 26 January, by the […]
Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev is in Germany for some days and has already met German chancellor Angela Merkel. Reporters Without Borders has already demanded that Merkel should raise press freedom issues with the guest. Let’s have a look at the press conference (all links in German) the two gave after the talks:
It’s Nazarbayev’s fifth […]
Finally someone has come up with it. Cash permitting, you no longer have to waste time in queues in Kazakhstan. All thanks to the smart Ruslan Akkuzhin and his colleague of the first queue-service-provider in Kazakhstan.
A new company in Kazakhstan charges customers to take their places in the country’s notorious queues.
For a small hourly […]
Kazakhstan is emerging as a new hot backpacker destinations and place to spend your gap year, according to a study by Travellers Connected. Surprise surprise, Sacha Baron Cohen is the reason the country has been put on the map of those keen to explore the world after finishing school:
TravellersConnected founder, Alastair Banks, said: “It’s […]
For the first time a blogger was tried in Kazakhstan. He is not an Internet-savvy young cyber-dissident uploading material through proxy servers that you would imagine. His name is Kazis Toguzbayev, he is a General, a pensioner, a journalist, and a member of “Alga” party. What he did was to write an article and […]
Kazakhstan is - as so many post-Soviet countries - a cradle of many talented sportsmen and -women. Contrary to the other Central Asian nations, this tradition does not seem to have abated with independence - so even today Kazakhstan sends big delegations to Olympic games and usually does better than e.g. neighbouring Uzbekistan.
Now, two […]
For all the grumbling done on this and other sites regarding the government of Kazakhstan’s undemocratic tendencies, the truth, as anyone who has traveled to Central Asia knows, is that the nation is miles ahead of the other former-Soviet republics in the region in many other respects: trade, finance, infrastructure, women’s rights, etc.
Here is […]
What follows is a translation of a post by Mira Bakhytova from Russian-language neweurasia Kazakhstan.
The criminal investigation in the case of 87 South-Kazakhstani children infected with HIV is over. The investigation lasted for half a year and resulted in 47 volumes of court material. But the most scandalous case of 2006 will be […]
Recently President Nursultan Nazarbayev presented his new book, “The Kazakhstan Way”, in Astana. The book was released in December 2006 in 10.000 copies, reported the news agency REGNUM:
“Real facts, objective analysis, and mainly, non-official details of the past events - will be of great interest for a reader”, said the organisers of the […]
Update: Adam reported on the real story behind the numbers last September.
President Nazarbayev’s aim to lead Kazakhstan among the club of the world’s 50 most competitive nations has been widely reported on before, including this blog. Now, with new data being available from the World Economic Forum, the creator of the reports, it’s time […]
