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• Russians Love Obama?

  In Digging the awesome post at Chris Merriman.com on a Russian solider who covered Eminem’s Stan in a video showing the squalor of the Russian army and got exiled for dishonoring the image of the Army, I found a YouTube video of a Russian guy praising Barak Obama and disparaging John McCain. At first I […]

  10/01/08 • (Comments Off on Russians Love Obama?)

• Commentators Are Just Checking Out the Chicks

  In what was likely not an isolated incident, commentators for Russian TV channel Sport, broadcasting over the Internet made some personal comments about Aliya Yussupova, the Kazakh rhythmic gymnast who has a world class record. Apparently these guys thought they were speaking off the record when they said: “Look at this Yussupova. What has she […]

  8/26/08 • (Comments Off on Commentators Are Just Checking Out the Chicks)

• And Then There Was One

  While Kazakhstan has taken some more medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics since I last blogged, the boxing team upon which many hopes were pinned isn’t performing according to expectations. Of course neither is the US boxing team which went home with one lousy bronze so maybe it’s just a bad moon over China. The […]

  8/23/08 • (Comments Off on And Then There Was One)

• Joe Biden on Central Asia

  The biggest news of the past months has broken: Barack Obama, the US Democratic Party Presidential candidate, has picked Joe Biden as his vice-president. As many pundits have been pointing out for months, one of Obama’s weak points is his lack of foreign policy credentials. Biden, a Democrat from the state of Delaware, is a […]

  8/23/08 • (1)

• Some Other Trivial Events Besides the Olympics

  I have been avoiding writing on the crisis in Georgia primarily because it doesn’t concern Kazakhstan particularly. That being said, Nazarbayev was one of the first Heads of State to make a statement urging for a peaceful and diplomatic resolution. And he made an interesting suggestion that other CIS nations should not be silent on […]

  8/16/08 • (Comments Off on Some Other Trivial Events Besides the Olympics)

• Olympics Update

  Back to the 2008 Olympic Games and in the couple of days I skipped, Kazakhstan picked up 2 silver and 1 bronze medals. In total Kazakhstan now has: 2 silver in weightlifting and 1 bronze; 2 bronze in wrestling and 1 silver in judo. Just last night, Mariya Grabovetskaya took the bronze in weightlifting, 75+ […]

  8/14/08 • (Comments Off on Olympics Update)

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  Kazakhstan Wins Second Medal

  I must have misunderstood something when I wrote that Kazakh wrestler Tenizbayev still had a match to go to win the bronze Nurbykhyt Tenizbayev won Kazakhstan’s second medal in the Beijing Olympics, taking a bronze in Greco-Roman Wrestling, 60 kg category, sharing it with Ruslan Tiumenbaev of Kyrgyzstan. I miswrote that the two would face […]

  8/12/08 • (Comments Off on Kazakhstan Wins Second Medal)

• Olympics Update: Boxing, Wrestling and Weightlifting

  Kazakhstan’s boxers continue to lead the hope for a medal. While in other events, Kazakhstan’s athletes have already finished empty-handed, the boxers are still in the ring and pounding away. As I reported before, Bakhityar Aratayev is still in the final 16 and will have his next match on Aug 16 against Matvey Korobov, the […]

  8/12/08 • (2)

• Movie Tickets Wanted

  Go see Wanted [Особо Опасен in Russian] which opened on June 27th in the US and on June 26th in Kazakhstan. Why am I talking about this film and why did it open in Kazakhstan before it opened in the US? Because the director, Timur Bekmambetov is a native son of Kazakhstan, born in Atyrau. […]

  6/22/08 • (Comments Off on Movie Tickets Wanted)

• Press in Kazakhstan only a little worse than last year

  According to Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press 2008 survey, Kazakhstan’s press in 2007 was only slightly less free than in 2006. Out of a scale of 100, Kazakhstan recieved a 78, where 100 represents total government control over the media and 0 represents total freedom. In 2006, the country scored 76. Overall the report […]

  6/02/08 • (Comments Off on Press in Kazakhstan only a little worse than last year)

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