I wrote about this before on blogistan.asia, but I am still interested in the topic and therefore I will write here again.
Astana is something like a city of myth for many German newspapers and therefore often described as one of those unbelievable new cities built on oil and gas like Dubai and
Abu Dhabi. […]

On the 14th of June I visited in Berlin a panel discussion of the German Association for Eastern European Studies about the Central Asia strategy of the European Union. Members of the panel were Dr. Manja Hussner, a DAAD teacher from Tashkent, Dr Maksat Kachkeev, a Kirghiz lawyer from
Cologne, and Dr. Jenniver Sehring, „Mrs. […]