As we already reported earlier, the long-running dispute between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan over ownership of resorts on the shores of Lake Issyk Kul has been resolved in favor of Kazakhstan. But far not everyone in Kyrgyzstan is happy with the compromise.
Hundreds of people marched in Issyk-Kul region Saturday to protest a government decision approving […]
It’s a tragedy, but the United States administration’s concept of wider Central Asia, equating secular, peaceful and semi-european Kazakhstan with Muslim, unrest and economically backward Afghanistan or Pakistan is still in minds of the White House officials. Not only this is a faulted logic and primitive generalization, but also a sentence to democratic aspirations […]
UPI reports that India may be planning to expand its presence in the Caspian and Central Asian energy market, particularly by obtaining some oil assets in Kazakhstan following Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari’s six-day official visit to the region. .
Bilateral trade statistics indicate rising mutual interests, as Indian-Kazakh trade has soared from $60 million […]
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Hoagland was nominated as Ambassador to Armenia last year but his nomination was withdrawn in relation to questions of the US […]
Below is translation of Adam’s post from the Russian-language blog.
The OSCE functioners and other Western leaders can forget about all Kazakhstan’s promises concerning democratization of the laws on elections, media, political parties and NGOs. It’s time to erase from your memory all the things we said in Brussels in 2006 and in Madrid […]
Translation of Adam’s post on the Russian blog.
Several weeks ago, almost simultaneously, the Kazakh blogosphere produced two posts in popular blogs about much rumored latent territorial claims of China to the neighboring countries, including Kazakhstan. This topic is close to many people in our country, who are familiar by hearsay with some Chinese […]
Late last year the European Parliament has prepared a draft resolution on the EU Strategy in Central Asia, which was adopted last summer under the German presidency in European Union. The motion for a resolution has been discussed and went through the Foreign Affairs Committee and is now to be adopted in full. Although […]
The news has come from the Regnum.Ru agency — first deputy director of the Kazakh Institute for Strategic Studies under the Kazakhstan’s President once again voiced the idea of the Central Asian Alliance, which had been earlier repeatedly put forward by N.Nazarbayev.
“It means making all Central Asian countries come to a common denominator. It […]
This is a translation of Adam Kesher’s post on the Russian language part of our blog.
Kazakhstan’s got a great diplomatic victory. Having only several things on its side - like waivering away Russia’s plan to reform OSCE, declaring adherence to OSCE principles; oil and status of EU’s prospective supplier number one; reputation of […]
The OSCE/ODIHR-hosted Human Dimension Implementation Meeting has concluded its work in Warsaw. The Kazakh official delegation retained the tendency towards quantitative increase, but the qualitative level remained the same.
The proofs of “democracy» in Kazakhstan and counter-arguments against the objections of the opposition and NGOs were still weak and unconvincing. For example, they repeatedly stated […]
