Below is the translation of Xxrock’s post from our Russian-language weblog.
The pompously advertised plans to turn Almaty into the Olympic city of dreams are jeopardized. Minister of Tourism and Sports Temirkhan Dosmukhamedov without any ado flew to Qatar and met with the President of Asian Olympics. He offered to move the Games – due […]
The continuous trouble over the delay in the Kashagan development has seen a few new developments over the last week. The 22 October deadline after which talks between the consortium and the Kazakh government about the stalemate should have originally been resolved got extended.
“The parties agreed to continue negotiations beyond the 22nd of October […]
Below is the translation of Adam Kesher’s post on the Russian-language part of kazakhstan.neweurasia.
This sum is the most popular one in Kazakhstan lately. The Kazakh banks have to return 4 billion dollars to their international creditors by the end of this year. The Almaty mayor said that 4 billion dollars will be necessary to […]
As reported on this site, one of the many casualties of August’s fraudulent Parliamentary election may have been Kazakhstan’s chances of chairing the OSCE in 2009.
Thus, the Kazakhstani Embassy’s latest press release is puzzling. Two articles topping the release are entitled “USA Optimistic about Kazakhstan’s OSCE Chairmanship Bid” and “Germany backs Kazakh OSCE, […]
Translation of an excerpt of Adam Kehser’s post on Russian-lnaguage kazakhstan.neweurasia blog
Against the background of the Kazakh banking system’s liquidity and the overall atmosphere of uncertainty in this sphere, a new bank – MasterBank – is entering the market after the financial authorities have issued a license for its activity. Some observers believe that […]
A few people have already mentioned this, but I wanted to add a few thoughts on this as well. The sub-prime lending crisis in the US and its global repercussions hit Kazakhstan’s foreign capital dependent financial sector quite drastically. As the crisis is still looming in many parts of Western markets, this story is […]
This article was taken from the databank of one organization, which known for his grants to students. Applicants to the scholarship, according to apply conditions must contribute his opinions on the future of his native country and nation. So, read Kazakh student’s thoughts on the future of Kazakhstan. Is it so superficial? Your opinions […]
Kazakhstan.neweurasia announces launch of a new project “Ask the celebrity!”, analogous to “Ask the expert” series.
Our first guest is Zhantemir Baimukhamedov, 33, a Kazakhstani showman and musician. In 1990s he started as a leader and frontman of the Beatles-maniac band “Fridays”. Then Jantik studied diplomacy in London, and - upon comeback - returned to […]
On October 8th local authorities in Petropavlovsk, the administrative center of North Kazakhstan Oblast, announced that President Nazarbayev and his entourage would be flying in to on the following day to proclaim a new akim.
This followed another surprise announcement in NKO: namely, that a new akim was needed. Though observers had expected a change […]
This is a translation of Zhanna Zhukova’s post from the Russian-language blog.
Representatives of intelligetsia, human rights NGOs, civil activists, independent journalists and oppositionists adopted a political statement concerning the Kazakh bid for chairmanship in the OSCE. Last year they were coming out with the similar statement, claiming that the authorities will succeed in […]
