After Kazakhstan effectively banned casinos in the country, restricting the gambling industry to two resort spots on Kapchagai lake near Almaty and Burabai lake near Astana, a great number of commercial real estate was suddenly released in all cities of the republic, and most of all, surely, in Almaty. After a couple of minor, […]
Freedom House has published its new Nations in Transit report. It is a several indicies-based analysis and rating of the countries, which were supposed to move from authoritarianism to democracy. However, many of the post-Soviet countries have obviously stopped in their movement, or even started active rollback to the “old good” methods of Soviet […]
The art today becomes more and more directed to earning money rather than winning hearts. Nevertheless, as an example of good spiritual treasure there can be stated many professional artists, and one of them is Botagoz Akanayeva.
Her personal creative art exhibition of magnificent and mysterious installations is held in Almaty for the first time. […]
Here’s another one billionaire in Kazakhstan. The next year’s Forbes rating will feature Bulat Utemuratov, ex-secretary of the Security Council and current chief of president’s apparatus. According to the publicly available information, he together with two sons Alidar and Anuar owns a controlling stake of 52% in the third largest bank in Kazakhstan, the […]
Mercer Human Resources Consulting released its 2007 Cost of Living Survey:
Mercer’s annual Cost of Living Survey covers 143 cities across six continents […]
Below is a translation of Marat’s post from the Russian-language Kazakhstan.Neweurasia blog, where you can also find some graphs.
I have decided to make a few statistical calculations about the prices on public utilities and on some products with reference to average salaries. For this purpose I used “Kazakhstan and the CIS countries” magazine, and […]
Below is a translation of Elena’s post from the Russian-language Kazakhstan.Neweurasia blog. Recently, the UK leading newspaper Sunday Times came out with a front-page story about Kazakh miners working on the Mittal Steel plants. In this view, Elena’s series of posts about the working conditions and accountability on Mittal Steel Temirtau works can be […]
Bhavna Dave, researcher from the Brussels-based Center for European Policy Studies, released her research, in which she says that further progress of Kazakhstan will depend on the success of continuity of democratic reforms.
Kazakhstan’s continuing socio-economic and political stability, formal commitment to political reform and pro-Western orientation make it the EU’s most reliable partner in […]
“New capital requires big capital”. Probably, there is no person in the country, who would not marvel pharaoh architectural projects in Astana, at the same time skeptically estimating the necessity of their funding from the state budget, formed by taxpayers. The capital is expensive for every Kazakhstani citizen - and this is not an […]
Recently I went to visit the Soros Center for Contemporary Art and witnessed the beginning of the destruction of this art community center on Tulebaev Street. They were already putting up the synonymous metal walls to hide the destruction.
The Soros Center for Contemporary Art has been housed in this humble constructivist building for almost […]
