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• Apologies to Nazarbayev (Or Not…)

  EDIT: As of Tuesday, the 19th of June, Aliyev claims that the interview described below, in which he apologized to the Presdient was in fact a fake composed by the editors of “Vremya” newspaper. The editors are sticking to their guns. So maybe the announcement that the interview was fake, was in fact fake? Rakhat […]

  6/18/07 • (Comments Off on Apologies to Nazarbayev (Or Not…))

• Arrested but not extradited

  Bonnie Boyd at Central Asia has an update on the situation with Aliyev. He has been detained–on his way back from a barber shop no less, but has paid his bail of 1 million Euros. Bonnie provides an excellent analysis of how the extradition process might work. On the same note, I’ve been meaning to […]

  6/06/07 • (Comments Off on Arrested but not extradited)

• High Level Scandal in Kazakhstan

  As many of you have probably read by now, Rakhat Aliyev, the wife of Dariga Nazarbayeva and son-in-law to the President of Kazakhstan is the subject of an international police search. The President has issued an order to arrest Aliyev, he has been reported to Interpol to be extradited to Kazakhstan for investigation, but he […]

  5/29/07 • (Comments Off on High Level Scandal in Kazakhstan)

• Kidnapping

  According to gazeta.kz, an employee of the KTK television company was kidnapped Thursday morning and held in a cell, though he has since been released. His situation remains critical after he suffered a stroke and potentially numerous concussions. He was taken at KTK headquarters by people in civilian clothes–two of them wearing masks–and driven away […]

  5/13/07 • (Comments Off on Kidnapping)

• Aliyev is leaving

  I thought I would have a chance to add valuable information to Leila’s article on Neweurasia, Kazakhstan: Money, Kidnapping, Money, Power, Money…, when I heard that Rakhat Aliyev was being sent to Vienna as Ambassador to Austria and to head all Kazakhstan offices there. He has been there before, 5 years ago, and we will […]

  2/10/07 • (Comments Off on Aliyev is leaving)

• Borat videos

  Two Borat-related videos came to my attention. Chris Merriman has put up the BBC coverage of the London premiere of Borat’s film, with discussion of the uproar, Aliyev’s invitation, and his insistence on remaining in character. Second, the first four minutes of the Borat film, the bit set in Kazakhstan: It’s not particularly funny to […]

  10/26/06 • (Comments Off on Borat videos)

• Poppa, Monarchiya

  When in the course of human events, a nation suffers hardships and prospers and one group of people prospers beyond the limits of all predictions, they get odd ideas. Many accuse the Bush administration of trying to use political and material capital to remake the fundamental core of the United States government. Now in Kazakhstan, […]

  9/20/06 • (Comments Off on Poppa, Monarchiya)

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