slavasay writes in his blog that
Forbes has published its new rating of the most influential women. The list is topped by German chancellor Angela Merkel for the third year in a row. Besides, an ethnic Kazakh and citizen of Russia Gulzhan Moldazhanova, who heads the Russian industrial company “Bazovy Element”, owned by Oleg […]

Yesterday I brought my little niece to her first year in school. The opening ceremony there were speeches, poems, songs and dances in the honor of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

Eastern Turkestan, as the Uighur separatists call the territory on the West of China, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region bordering Kazakhstan, remains a big problem for Beijing, often underestimated by the world media against the background of Tibet or Taiwan. Today the issue reminded about itself.
A border patrol station in XUAR was attacked by […]

The Rakhat Aliyev’s most recent exposure in the media was dedicated to the U.S. Helsinki Commission’s hearings on Kazakhstan. The exiled former presidential son-in-law accused Nazarbayev of corruption, and this obviously impressed the participants of hearings - the  Aliyev’s interview was on the first page of Wall Street Journal. As reported, US lawmakers questioned […]

Here is a new blog called “A Momentary Relapse of Reason”. It is in English and written by an American, who has just moved to Almaty, Kazakhstan nearly a year ago. Here’s a small self-presentation from the blog’s “About” section:
After graduating from with a BA in International Studies in 2006 I began looking for […]

Kazakhstan used to be a home for a number of Soviet “closed” factories, producing ammunition and missiles, not to speak about several test grounds for weapons of various kinds. After the collapse of the Union, many of them stagnated, conversed or were just plundered. But today one can confidently speak about the rise of […]