Below is a translated post by Adam from the Russian language blog.
Numbers of children of high-ranking officials among Kazakh bankers have grown. Now Nurali Rakhatovich Aliev (Nurbank, son of presidential daughter Dariga and now-outcast former deputy foreign minister Rakhat Aliev), Alidar and Anuar Bulatovichs Utemuratovs (ATF-Bank, sons of the chief of presidential apparatus) are […]
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 […]
The Eurasian Media Forum, a creature of Dariga Nazarbayeva, eldest daughter of the president and ex-wife of outcast Rakhat Aliyev, has been held in Almaty in April 24-26. Shortly before it, Ms. Nazarbayeva spoke with the Internet users via popular forum “Centr Tiajesti” [Gravity Center] and said that the story behind persecution of her […]
This is a translation of Adam’s post from the Russian language blog.
Jaksybek Kulekeev, former president of the largest state company Kazakhstan Railways was arrested red-handed with 100,000$ bribe more than three weeks ago.
Many observers and average citizens almost immediately agred in opinion that the former twice-minister and national company’s top manager was framed by […]
Last week the major democratic opposition force of Kazkahstan, the “Azat” [Freedom] party celebrated official recognition of their new name by the Ministry of Justice. Earlier the party was called “Nagyz Ak Zhol” [True Bright Path], and the new name was adopted at the party congress with a very little advantage. Another proposed name […]
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 […]
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Hoagland was nominated as Ambassador to Armenia last year but his nomination was withdrawn in relation to questions of the US […]
As the trial over former presidential son-in-law, former chief of special services and former mogul ends, the major opposition party “Azat” (recently rebranded from “Nagyz Ak Zhol”) is quick to react to the revealed facts of treason and planned coup. In its statement, the party reminds that its leaders were accusing Aliyev of the […]
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 […]
Below is Zhanna’s translated post from te Russian-language blog.
Former son-in-law of the president (former key figure of the Kazakh establishment, who is already convicted in absentia to 20 years in prison for organization of a mafia-type gang and abduction of people) Rakhat Aliev and former chief of the KNB — National Security Committee […]
