This is a translation of Vitaliy Mantrov’s article, which was posted on February 15, 2007
February 15th was the day of the removal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. In 1982, 19 year old Sharipjan only finished school and entered into the technical institute, when he was called into army. After only a month of serving […]
Tengiz, Kazakhstan’s biggest onshore oil field, is known to produce sulphur-rich crude. ChevronTexaco, exploring, developing and producing at Tengiz since the early 1990s, has had different ideas how to get rid of this unwanted by-product. Until today, these attempts have not yielded any noticeable success, though. In 2001, St. Petersburg Times correspondent Christopher Pala […]
Kazakhstan’s economic boom has now firmly caught the attention of international investors. As reported in this place earlier, some Kazakh blue chips are listed on the London Stock Exchange (albeit the bulk of the stocks is in the hands of a select few strategic investors and/or owners of the companies). The Kazakh Stock Exchange […]
This is a translation of Adam Kesher’s post.
On 10 February in Almaty the opposition held a meeting, dedicated to the memory of Altynbek Sarsenbayev, who was shot along with his two assistants a year ago by unknown assassins.
The meeting took place near the Academy of sciences, where, a year ago the civil dirge on […]
This is a translation of Adam’s post from Russian-language neweurasia Kazakhstan.
Offering the budget for 2008, Bush administration will ask the Congress to decrease the financing of a number of broadcasting services, supported by the US (“Voice of America” (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), and even close some of them. The Broadcasting […]
Our author and editor of Media Provinces site Irene Velska from Karaganda Center for Regional Journalism led a blogging training in Pavlodar last weekend, February 9-10. Young journalists, journalism students and NGO people were invited to take part in the training. The program included introduction to citizens media, discussions about blogging as modern mass […]
There is a nice animated video of Kazakhstani rock band Motoroller in Youtube called “From Bishkek to Almaty”. The song is in Russian with English-language subtitles. The band has been playing for 12 years now and the vocalist Ilyas Autov has got “The Best Vocal” award in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on CIS scale “Old-New Rock […]
Karaganda is hooting – a lecturer of the Department of Mathematics at Karaganda State University is fired. There seems to be nothing special in it, if not the reason, and being more precise, reasons, of the dismissal: demanding for a bribe and sexual solicitation toward students.
And now the most interesting fact about the […]
After 8-months crisis, the Czech Republic has finally formed its new government with center-right majority. Four sits are taken by the Green Party – for the first time in the history of the party. One of the “Green” ministers is Dzhamila Stehlikova, an ethnic Kazakh born in Almaty. Dzhamila has medical education, she first […]
Thanks to Berlin’s local paper Der Tagesspiegel, we have an insight account of what President Nazarbaev was up to after his meetings with the German government and representatives from business were over. Just like most of us, the president likes to go out with friends and have one or two drinks. Why not take […]
