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An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Address to the People’

  • President Waiting for Constitutional Council

    Gazeta.kz has a better summary of the President’s words on the referendum than my liveblogging on the Address. Could be because their Russian is better than mine. In short (via Google Translate) he said: I vetoed the law and sent it to the Constitutional Council, as it was given to me, and they must determine […]

  • State of the Union of Kazakhstan 2011

    Liveblog of the Address to the People of Kazakhstan by the President 2011. Tried to pick up on most of the highlights. Look forward to doing a better summary and analysis when the transcript comes out.

  • Referendum and ElBasi Amendments Sent to Constitutional Council

    There’s actually an excellent article on Central Asian News Wire that sums up the whole history of the referendum movement, including the latest move. Rather than sign the bill from Parliament to approve amendments to the Constitution, Nazarbayev has sent them to the Constitutional Council. The role of the Council is to judge whether proposed […]