Translation of the post by Elena Platonova, an author of the Russian-language neweurasia.
Lawyers for the workers of “Mittal Steel Temirtau”, on whom the whole blame for death of 41 miners in the Central Kazakhstan was put, have proved that their clients should not be on a dock.
The lawyers have found so many infringements in […]
Translation of the excerpt from the post by Scaliger, an author of the Russian-language neweurasia.
For the last few years Kazakhstan has been very anxious about its international image. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs created a special division of international PR. Image-building is a not cheap thing (politically anxious citizens have not […]
Rakhat Aliyev, the son-in-law of Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev is considering seeking political asylum in Austria after the Kazakh Ministry of Interior issued an international warrant for his arrest, accusing him of several kidnappings, writes Financial Times.
Aliyev says the charges were “fabricated” after he told Nazarbayev about his political ambitions for the presidential post. […]
In the coming years, perhaps decades, Turkmenbashi will undoubtedly live on in the form a suffix tacked on to any Central Asian ruler who does something vaguely authoritarian and eccentric. A while back, Ian from Beyond the River rightly criticized me for falling into that trap when Tajikistan President Rakhmon enacted several weird […]
On 24th May 2007, independent Journalist Sergei Duvanov was arrested in Almaty. Duvanov was holding an unsanctioned protest against what he calls the ‘Turkmenbashizma’ of Kazakhstan. Earlier in the day Duvanov posted a statement on kub.kz, in which he argued that the recent constitutional reforms are nothing but political deceit. Duvanov argues that the […]
Interfax Kazakhstan reported today that a criminal case is initiated against Rakhat Aliev on the charges of kidnapping.
Aliev, Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Austria, a shareholder in “Nurbank” and the president’s son-in-law, is charged with the kidnapping of the former head of the Board of “Nurbank” Abilmazhen Gilimov, and a former first deputy of the bank’s Board Zholdas Timraliev.
As […]
As Leila has written on the main page, Nazarbayev has again solidified and extended his powers through a Constitution Amendment. This “President for Life” clause– an exemption from term limits– is certainly interesting and problematic, but may be distracting from a bigger story. The truth is, there was never any question about […]
Translation of the post by Elena Platonova, an author of the Russian-language neweurasia from Karaganda.
A huge accident occurred last year at the oil pipeline in Central Kazakhstan. About three thousand tons of oil spilled to the ground from a broken pipe not far from the Molodetskoe village. The consequences of this accident are still being […]
Bonnie Boyd has posted an excellent overview of the debate around income inequality in Central Asia (part one; part two). Her first post lists a couple basic tenets to the debate, mostly drawing from a recent Brookings-organised study. How can globalisation benefit the poor in Central Asia? The problem, first off, is to define who’s […]
Earlier today, news reports indicated that everything seems to be going rather well for the world’s largest vertically-integrated steel producer:
“Mittal is doing well in Europe, especially in Ukraine and Kazakhstan,” said analyst Charles Bradford of Bradford Research. “They like to buy cheap assets, fix those a little bit, and that had worked.”
Recently, Kazakhstan was […]
