http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net neweurasia\'s Kazakhstan blog Thu, 08 May 2008 05:56:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [inspic=115,left,fullscreen,thumb] [inspic=114,left,fullscreen,thumb] [inspic=113,left,fullscreen,thumb] [inspic=112,left,fullscreen,thumb] [inspic=111,left,fullscreen,thumb] [inspic=110,left,fullscreen,thumb] [inspic=109,left,fullscreen,thumb] [inspic=108,left,fullscreen,thumb] http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/05/08/friday-photo-medeo-today/ As the rating agency Fitch pointed out devaluation of credits in three Kazakhstani banks, including the country's leading private bank KazKom, and smaller ones, the Alliance and Caspian banks, the reaction of Kazakh bankers was immediate. They said that the Fitch's methodology of evaluation of the assets quality is conservative. The ... http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/05/07/much-ado-about-banks/ The Kazakh government will seek investors to build or maintain 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) of roads at a projected cost of 541 billion tenge ($4.5 billion) in exchange for operating concessions, the Transportation Ministry said.Roads in Kazakhstan, the world's ninth-biggest country by territory, have always been a persistent problem both ... http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/05/06/kazakhstan-wants-new-and-renovated-roads/ Below is a translated post by  Nurgeldy from the Russian-language blog. A monument to Charlie Chaplin has appeared in [the northern city of] Kostanai last week. As reported, it is the 12th in the world. The very fact of a sculpture to the cinematographe idol being installed in our city ... http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/05/05/chaplin-in-kostanai/ This is a translated post by Arman from the Russian-language blog.   It has been on the eve of the May Day holidays (which by the way were celebrated much wider under the previous mayor of Almaty; however, that was more likely due to better overall economic situation in the country) when the ... http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/05/04/what-mayor-knows/ Application Deadline: June 1, 2008  Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, in collaboration with the Open Society Institute Public Health Program’s Health Media Initiative, is now accepting project proposals for the third round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects focused especially on public health issues involving ... http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/04/30/rising-voices-seeks-micro-grant-proposals-for-health-related-new-media-outreach/ 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 ... http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/04/30/kids-at-banks/ 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 ... http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/04/29/kyrgyz-protest-against-concessions-to-kazakhstan/ 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 ... http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/04/28/eurasian-media-forum/ [inspic=107,left,fullscreen,thumb] http://kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/2008/04/25/friday-photo-traffic-jam/