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• Constitutional Amendments Proposed

  Today, a joint-session of Kazakhstan’s Parliament is meeting to discuss and possibly approve Constitutional Amendments. The President will be present along with the Prime Minister, the akims of the oblasts and major cities, and representatives of the President’s Administration. According to the head of the Constitutional Commission, the proposed amendments will: increase the role of […]

  5/16/07 • (Comments Off on Constitutional Amendments Proposed)

• The New Great Game Take infinity

  President Vladimir Putin was in Kazakhstan yesterday and he and President Nazarbayev will be traveling to Turkmenistan this week together. Two issues are on the agenda. First, Russia will be assisting Kazakhstan in enriching uranium for its nuclear energy power center. The two countries will be setting up a joint-uranium enrichment center. It looks like […]

  5/11/07 • (Comments Off on The New Great Game Take infinity)

• Blogger Arrested

  There’s been some big changes in my lifestyle that have prevented me from spending much time on this blog for the past two weeks, but I noticed an item today that is well worth mentioning. Leila at Kazakhstan.Neweurasia has an article up about a blogger on trial for insulting the honor and dignity of the […]

  1/27/07 • (Comments Off on Blogger Arrested)

• NurOtan

  Yesterday at a meeting of the party of Otan, the party that holds the majority in Parliament and the party of the President two major decisions were made: 1) Otan will change its name to NurOtan. While Nur means “sunlight” in Kazakh, and Otan means “fatherland”, no one can doubt that the name change refers […]

  12/23/06 • (Comments Off on NurOtan)

• Leaders of Kazakhstan on Niyazov’s Passing

  Nazarbayev, currently in China, sent a telegram to the acting President, reading in part: Saparmurat Atayevich was an outstanding leader of the Turkmen people, a politician with foresight, constantly working hard for the good of his homeland. He played a key role in creating and strengthening the independent state of Turkmenistan, and developing the economic […]

  12/22/06 • (Comments Off on Leaders of Kazakhstan on Niyazov’s Passing)

• Respect Wealth

  Yesterday, President Nazarbayev announced that Kazakhs should learn to respect rich people, that there should be some kind of cultural program to inculcate this new attitude, and that businessmen should be more open about their wealth. The comments at Zonak.kz are well worth reading. In short, the questions that will need to be worked out […]

  12/14/06 • (Comments Off on Respect Wealth)

• Right Hand Cars

  As has been widely reported, on the 14th of November, Nazarbayev announced that Kazakhstan will ban cars with right-side steering wheels. The reason cited is that these vehicles cause traffic accidents, and presumably there is a reason why nations that drive on the right side of the road tend to have cars with wheels on […]

  11/27/06 • (Comments Off on Right Hand Cars)

• 

  Kazakhsha

  A number of issues regarding Kazakh language have come out recently. First, there was the announcement on the 24th of October that Kazakhstan will switch to the Latin alphabet, whereas now it uses a Cyrillic alphabet. Historically, Kazakh was originally written in a Turkish script and then in Arabic script, and briefly in Latin script […]

  11/16/06 • (18)

• Astana, two sides

  Two articles came out last week about Astana. Both focus on the Palace of World Peace and Unity—the new pyramid designed by Lord Foster, a well-known British architect. The pyramid was designed to host the second World Congress for Religious Tolerance, a conference of religious figures and political leaders which attempts to bring together religious […]

  10/26/06 • (Comments Off on Astana, two sides)

• This time has he gone too far?

  Borat’s defense in my mind was always that he had nothing against Kazakhstan itself. And many say that Kazakhstan has brought the personal war on themselves. But, this might be going too far. While Nazarbayev is in the US, Borat gave a press conference in front of the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington, claiming that the […]

  9/26/06 • (Comments Off on This time has he gone too far?)

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