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• Bread Revolution?

  For the past two weeks, there has been quite a bit of coverage on TV and in the print media about the increases in prices of bread in Central Asia. This week, in Kazakhstan the issue came to a head and was brought to the government’s attention. Some report that in Shimkent a leposhka (flat […]

  10/03/07 • (Comments Off on Bread Revolution?)

• Another Russian Rocket Crashes in Kazakhstan

  Following the Russian Dnepr rocket which crashed taking off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan last year, A Russian Proton rocket crashed in Karaganda Thursday. No one was hurt as the rocket crashed in an uninhabited area about 30 miles southwest of Zhezkazgan and the rocket was unmanned, carrying only a Japanese satellite. However the environmental damage to […]

  9/08/07 • (Comments Off on Another Russian Rocket Crashes in Kazakhstan)

• A new Holding Company will Soar!

  From the Kazakhstan Embassy in the US comes the announcement that a new holding company will be established. Samgao (which means ‘to soar’, I think!) National Science and Technology Holding is charged with improving management in these areas. This follows from comments made by the President and more recently, his Address to the People, in […]

  4/15/07 • (Comments Off on A new Holding Company will Soar!)

• AO Kazakhstan

  While a lot of attention has been paid to the ongoing process of administrative reforms in Kazakhstan in the area of increasing Parliamentary powers, not much has been heard about the plans to reform the civil service. There have been research projects and discussion in the areas of linking government salaries to performance, reducing corruption […]

  3/11/07 • (Comments Off on AO Kazakhstan)

• NurOtan Is Growing

  There was an interesting development in an otherwise typical first meeting of the new government. The new Prime Minister set his agenda which includes improving civil service and the administration of the government, as well as various economic issues, and continuing key projects under Akhmetov, which was all to be expected. A photo was taken […]

  1/13/07 • (Comments Off on NurOtan Is Growing)

• 

  It’s official

  UPDATE: Strangely, the President announced that Akhmetov will become Minister of Defence. Usually this is a post that does not change, and while other former-PMs serve as Ministers (Tokayev for example who was Minister of Foreign Affairs), it surely will be odd for him to report to his former deputy, particularly as no love is […]

  1/10/07 • (1)

• The only thing we’re saying is we aren’t saying anything

  The session of Parliament started at 10am today (Wednesday the 10th) to name the new PM has resulted for the moment. So far there is only anti-climatic news from yesterday evening. The Party NurOtan has chosen a candidate, and the Parliament voted to approve that candidate. Who is it? That is a secret. Now, presumably […]

  1/10/07 • (Comments Off on The only thing we’re saying is we aren’t saying anything)

• Coverage on Akhemtov

  Some of the coverage on the resignation of the Prime Minister which is particularly note-worthy. Adam Kesher’s article on the Russian website of kazakhstan.neweurasia.net is notable for its depth. He also notes, unlike other sources, that someone who may step into a government-role (as minister or vice-minister perhaps) is Grigor Marchenko, former advisor to the […]

  1/09/07 • (Comments Off on Coverage on Akhemtov)

• SBCs

  Two weeks ago, there was a government assembly and the Prime Minister presented new projects for the government. As Kazakhstan Today reports, Social Business Coportations were on the list. “Sara Arka” will be the first, to be established in Karaganda (because the akim there was on the ball, they say). By the end of the […]

  10/30/06 • (Comments Off on SBCs)

• New Akim of Atyrau

  So far, there is not much written about this, but yesterday, while the President was in Western Kazakhstan, there was a protest in Atyrau—the capital of offshore oil in Kazakhstan. 300 people stood in front of the oblast akim’s office with signs that said “We support Kazakhstan but the akim has to go!” This wasn’t […]

  10/05/06 • (Comments Off on New Akim of Atyrau)

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