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• Krishnas in Kazakhstan, Update

  More on the Krishnas in Kazakhstan. Video on Youtube of the destruction. Note the snow falling. Also note that the Krishnas appear to be Kazakhstany, not Hindu though there is reason to believe Hindus are being targeted. According to Forum 18, the President’s brother may have been behind this, wanting to get his hands on […]

  11/27/06 • (1)

• Religious and Ethnic Tolerance

  On the 22nd of November, outside Almaty, local authorities destroyed the only Hare Krishna commune in the CIS, a total of eleven houses on 48 acres. The group apparently was not prepared because: The group apparently was not prepared because there is currently a state special commission – appointed to investigate allegations of religious harassment […]

  11/23/06 • (3)

• Kazakhstan’s OSCE bid

  Thanks to Nathan’s post here at Registan.net: Kazakhstan’s bid for chairmanship of the OSCE in a statement at the meeting of the Permanent Council last week. Tokayev’s statement and his closing statement

  10/31/06 • (Comments Off on Kazakhstan’s OSCE bid)

• The Visit

  On the eve of Nazarbayev’s visit to the White House on Sept. 29th, speculation and analysis abounds as to what the issues on the table will be. The White House site has a nice list: Democracy Promotion: Kazakhstan Neweurasia has put up a slighting cartoon from The Economist. This is one big issue. And one […]

  9/01/06 • (Comments Off on The Visit)

• Aftermath: Reports and Opinions

  Some Primary Sources for your Evaluating Pleasure The OSCE preliminary findings and conclusions An interesting point not likely to picked up elsewhere: In observed polling stations with e-voting, a large majority of voters appeared to have favoured voting by paper ballot. The Institute for War and Peace Reporting Too Good to Be True? via kazakhstan.neweurasia.net, […]

  12/07/05 • (Comments Off on Aftermath: Reports and Opinions)

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