Comments on: The Innovative Mr. Vassilenko

By: kazakhstan.neweurasia.net » So Long Mr. Vassilenko… Oh, and the Ambassador too

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:47:40 +0000

[…] back to Astana with him. As previously posted on this site, this may deprive Kazakhstan of its most useful person in Washington, […]

By: KZBlog

KZBlog — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:42:34 +0000

if I can toot Mr. Vassilenko’s horn further, I wrote to him several years ago asking to subscribe to the Embassy e-newsletter in awful Russian, primitively transcribed to Latin letters. He wrote back a cheery little message! Ever since then I have had affection in my heart for him.

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Kazakhstan: The Innovative Mr. Vassilenko

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:49:32 +0000

[…] At neweurasia, Arthur reports on Roman Vassilenko, the spokesman of Kazakhstan’s embassy to the United States and Canada, his innovative use of the internet, and his skillful handling of the press. Nathan Hamm […]

By: Arthur

Arthur — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:27:08 +0000

The grumbling is important to offset the ceaseless rhetoric coming from Astana and the essentially state or Nazarbaev controlled media. As long as the criticism is well researched and reasonable, I think it helps push Kazakhstan towards the democratic ideals it claims to aspire towards.

However, I thought Neweurasia needed some kind of link to YouTube, now that the mainstream media has declared it the greatest thing since sliced bread.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:12:32 +0000

Arthur,

great stuff, we always thought about posting something on Mr. Vassilenko (I called him the Cyber-Ambassador of Kazakhstan once). There’s a discussion of the latest video over at The Registan.

And you’re right, the grumbling has been a bit predominant here lately (let’s hope that this can change).