A unit of Baker Hughes, the third-biggest oilfield services company in the world, has pleaded guilty to bribing Kazakh middlemen to win business on the Karachaganak field. According to this news report, the company was already talking to the Kazakh goverment back in 2002/2003 about “settling cases related to the investigations”.
Now, the company has […]
The FT reports on a new investment fund focusing on Kazakhstan. $200 million Tau Capital will list on the LSE’s Alternative Investment Market. On the face of it, that’s nothing too interesting amid the general bonanza surrounding the Kazakh economy.
A couple of things are worth mentioning, though. First off, the investments the fund is […]
What has probably been planned well in advance turns out to be rather charged amid the recent chaos in Bishkek: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will hold the floor in Kyrgyzstan’s Zhogorku Kenesh this Friday. Reports Gazeta.kg:
Kazakh President visits Kyrgyzstan on April 26 - 27. During the visit parties are up to sign a number […]
Volker Schlöndorff, known for his adaptation of The Tin Drum that won him the 1978 Academy Award for the best Foreign Language Film, finished directing Ulzhan last year. Now, the film will be shown in a special screening at the Film Festival in Cannes.
Adil Nurmakov is a 28-year old political scientist and a journalist from Almaty, who started as a blogger in 2004. He writes his own Livejournal adam_kesher and is a regular author on neweurasia. Recently, Adil wrote an open letter to the mayor of Almaty about the situation with the increasing amount of cars in […]
Yuri Mizinov is a founder and an editor of Zonakz.net, an online newspaper, previously known as Navigator. Zonakz.net is planning to launch blogs on their site, and Yuri Mizinov agreed to comment on blogs and citizen media for neweurasia.
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Known for four waterfront regeneration projects on four continents, architect Eric Kuhne was the obvious choice to design a huge new development at Lake Borovoye in northern Kazakhstan. Of course making a Borat pun out of this, The UK Independent reported on this some days ago:
But instead of forest-cloaked mountains, the Kazakh retreat will be […]
An unexpected gradualism prevailed in some Kazakh politicians’ words recently, especially over the country’s formerly ambitious oil export targets. ‘We don’t have to rush at any price’ seemed to be the word of the day - maybe also in the light of Azerbaijan’s increasing woes with oil windfalls that are becoming more and more […]
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Kazis Toguzbayev is a Kazakhstani journalist/blogger, who was sued for insulting the honor and the dignity of the president in January 2007 when he uploaded two articles on a group blog KUB.kz. Kazis is 59, married and has grandchildren. He is a colonel of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan in […]
It was a quick shot Nurlan Iskakov took when news broke that over 300 dead seals had been washed ashore the Caspian Sea in the Mangystau oblast.
Iskatov said that if the oil producers are to blame for what happened, they would bear full responsibility. “In this case, they would have to expect sanctions, compensation […]
