The Respublika Avenue after intersection with Seifullin Street becomes Pushkin Street. There is a monument to the great Russian poet; the sculpture is a gift to the city, made by Mr. Stolpovskih, a Russian citizen, in 1999. Pushkin stands in the center of little park and represents a light and picturesque composition - vivid, fresh […]
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It is a great priviledge for us to accept the award in the nomination “Best Group Blog”!!! We thank all bloggers and High Jury Members, who voted for us. This award is fully a desert of our authors — so thank you all, too! We are proud and happy to accept our readers’ congratulations!
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On November 29 the Jury that includes well-known and respected people of our country will name the Persons of the Year 2007 in culture, business, medicine and art. The National Project “Person of the Year – Choice of the Year” is far from politics and commercially independent. It has no monetary bonus, and its […]
Translation of Marat’s post from the Russian-language blog
This is the question that I have been interested in since morning. So, I studied the statistical data and took the most recent published figures (which are for January-March 2007) and divided the number of divorces on the number of marriages. Here is the diagram (in Russian).
As you […]
The walk started here.
Right behind Abai, there is Seigullin Street. Between the Seifullin’s Museum and the building of Kazakh Law Academy, stands the monument to the renowned Kazakh writer and revolutionist.
Kazakhstan’s financial markets were hit hard by the US subprime crisis. That’s not surprising when one looks at the national banks’ exposure to international credit markets.
Just consider the macroeconomic data: Kazakhstan’s debt service ratio - i.e. debt service as a percentage of the country’s exports - stands at 42%, second only to Brazil’s, and […]
This new series will be highlighting the most interesting blogs in Kazakhstan.
A new research organization has been created in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Competitiveness Research Center is a noncommercial, nongovernmental and non-partisan research organization that aims to study social and institutional aspects of competitiveness of the society, business and governance in Kazakhstan.
The Center is conducting […]
One of the central - the oldest ones - streets in Astana, former Tselinograd (City of Divine Lands) is named after the prominent culture and literature figure of Kazakhstan, great Kazakh humanist Abai. There is his monument - on the intersection of Abai and Republic Streets, paying no attention to the sharp wind, Abai […]
In February next yar a new BarCamp event for the bloggers from EU and former Soviet Union will be held in Riga, the capital city of Latvia. Activists, enthusiasts and professionals of the new media will bring themselves together in order to tell each other about their projects, problems and news - and, certainly, to […]
On Silk Road Intelligencer, there was an article that reported that Kazakstan had 27 billion dollars in its Oil Fund.
That’s alot of money.
In Venezuela, we see the enormous oil profits being invested in education, health care, infrastructure, and a variety of other social programs. Not that I am a big fan of Chavez. His […]
