You might have seen posts on Kazakhstan’s art scene by Daniel Gallegos, an American artist who is now in Almaty. I visited Daniel and his colleagues from the Artpologist project Zhanara, Aminatou and Gaisha at Soros Centre for Contemporary Art in Almaty. The project reflects on the transformation of space in Almaty influenced by rapid […]

Mercer Human Resources Consulting released its 2007 Cost of Living Survey:
Mercer’s annual Cost of Living Survey covers 143 cities across six continents […]

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 […]

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 […]

A new political project emerged in Kazakhstan, reports blogger sarimov, political observer of “Zhas Alash” Kazakh-language newspaper. The party unites national-patriots and was a new government project, which was under way for almost five months, according to sarimov.
We decided to create this democratic party “Khalyk Rukhy”, which means “The Spirit of the People”. […]

Adil Nurmakov is a 28-year old political scientist and a journalist from Almaty, who started as a blogger in 2004. He writes his own Livejournal adam_kesher and is a regular author on neweurasia. Recently, Adil wrote an open letter to the mayor of Almaty about the situation with the increasing amount of cars in […]

Yuri Mizinov is a founder and an editor of Zonakz.net, an online newspaper, previously known as Navigator. Zonakz.net is planning to launch blogs on their site, and Yuri Mizinov agreed to comment on blogs and citizen media for neweurasia.
Q: What is a blog for you?
The definition of a blog is well-known. But for us […]

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Kazis Toguzbayev is a Kazakhstani journalist/blogger, who was sued for insulting the honor and the dignity of the president in January 2007 when he uploaded two articles on a group blog KUB.kz. Kazis is 59, married and has grandchildren. He is a colonel of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan in […]

Kazakhstan introduced a jury trial in cases where crimes are punished by the death penalty. The trials have already taken place in Eastern and Northern Kazakhstan. The jury consists of eleven people, selected by special computer programme from a long list of people’s surnames, suggested by regional Akimat. People who do not have legal […]

After his posts on the demolition of old Stalin and Khrushchev houses in Almaty, Adam Kesher continues writing about the changes in the city in his Livejournal (RUS). In his post, he writes about the new project for the Square of the Republic in Almaty.
“This comes in addition to a huge undeground construction, […]