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 […]
At a workshop “Secrets of blogging in Kazakh language” organized by Neweurasia Kazakhstan on 26 April in Kostanay (North Kazakhstan) and 24 May in Aktobe (West Kazakhstan) were participated 32 students from journalism faculty. Young journalists discussed about role of new media in Kazakh society and discover blogging in Kazakh Language.
Trainer of this seminar […]
This is a translation of Adam’s post from the Russian-language blog.
Sean Roberts reports in his blog on the Wall Street Journal article about Rakhat Aliev, his former wife and Kazakhgate trial. The translation of this story into Russian was first provided by the Aliev’s website.
The WSJ piece, in particular, tells that in 2003 Dariga […]
KZBlog reports that Richard Hoagland has been nominated by President Bush to replace John Ordway as Ambassador to Kazakhstan. Hoagland is currently serving in the U.S. Embassy to Turkmenistan and was Ambassador to Tajikistan.
Hoagland was nominated as Ambassador to Armenia last year but his nomination was withdrawn in relation to questions of the US […]
KZBlog reports that nearly a month ago a group of 30 masked men in Almaty attacked 40 Turkish workers, employees of the Turkish construction company B.N.N. Pegasus. The attackers were allegedly armed with knives and guns, but only 4 men were injured. One assailant was captured and taken into custody by police.
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Translation of Adam’s post on the Russian-language blog.
A new interesting web2.0-type resource has appeared in the Kazakhstani sector of Internet. “News of Kazakhstan” - such is the name of multi-user portal of the “people’s news”.
“Newzzz.KZ provides social news in Kazakhstan. You publish everything interesting what is happening in Kazakhstan and around. You decide which […]
Dear readers and guests of neweurasia, please, see the message below - perhaps, some of you would be interested in this.
Dear film maker/journalist,
VPRO Television (based in The Netherlands) is currently recruiting innovative videojournalists and filmmakers from all over the world for a new GLOBAL network of correspondents. The network aims to provide strong LOCAL […]
Every day, I find new blogs in Kazakh. And many of them - even in their first posts - write that it would be better if there were a blog platform in Kazakh, since then it would be easier to use all the capabilities that it offers. Active Kazakh bloggers have not been indifferent […]
Last Saturday I held a training session on blogging and new media in Karaganda, the largest city in Kazakhstan after Almaty, also called a “capital of coal miners”. This city is famous for the high level of educational capacity - the State University and the medical academy here historically are ranked among the top […]
The Almaty-based International Center for Journalism MediaNet together with the Soros Foundation in Kazakhstan has announced the results of best weblog contest. The competition brought together 30 applications from bloggers running their websites both in Kazakh and in Russian, both personally and in groups.
The second place was won by the Kazakh-language neweurasia. The […]
