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• The National Anthem, Live!

  To symbolize the revitalization of this blog, I am going to be liveblogging an event I have stumbled into. As soon as I find out what that event is, I’ll be writing it down here. I start with a question: Why are there hundreds of school children (EDIT: I am told that they are in […]

  9/15/06 • (Comments Off on The National Anthem, Live!)

• Flash Mobs

  Posting to an Astana community on LJ about Flash Mobs, translated here: Question. Maybe someone knows. Is there a flashmob in our town, and who does them? Has anyone ever made a flashmob in the streets of our town? If not, why don’t we develop this idea? Then he links to Wikkipedia to explain what […]

  9/01/06 • (Comments Off on Flash Mobs)

• BBC podcast “From Our Own Correspondent”

  BBC launched a new podcast of From Our Own Correspondent. Look it up and download the one from 15 July 2006 (the first one) ,which covers Kazakhstan. The bit about Kazakhstan and Astana is located about 17 minutes in, although I intend to listen to the other reports as they sound interesting (and obviously listening […]

  7/19/06 • (Comments Off on BBC podcast “From Our Own Correspondent”)

• For the record

  Wherein I divulge the procedure by which the relected President is honored The Inauguration of Nursaltan Nazarbayev: Typed up while watching Khabar TV’s broadcast 10:45am, in Kazakh and Russian alternating.

  1/11/06 • (Comments Off on For the record)

• Election News Wrap Up

  The preliminary results are in: 91% of voters voted for Nursaltan Nazarbayev. 6.6% voted for Tuyakbai (For a Fair Kazakhstan) 0.38% voted for Yerasyl Abylkasymov (Communist Party) 1.65% for candidate Alikhan Baimenov (Ak Zhol) and 0.32% for Mels Yeleusizov 77% of voters turned out. The surprises are the high turnout, especially among youth and of […]

  12/04/05 • (1)

• Election Atmosphere

  The day job keeps me a little busy to be posting. But a couple of notes: Apparently some people in Almaty pelted TSUM and Ramstor, the big shopping centers , with rocks. There is worry that there will be riots. The Almaty police have detained hundreds of people. They claim that they are looking for […]

  12/04/05 • (Comments Off on Election Atmosphere)

• The election trail gets a bit bloody

  Unfortunate Incidents and Warnings of Violence After the Kyrgyz revolution, the government of Kazakhstan (among other nations) took a long hard look at their own situation and potential for such an uprising. A number of statements were made to the effect that Kazakhstan was too politically and socially stable, that the level of living was […]

  11/25/05 • (Comments Off on The election trail gets a bit bloody)

• Updates from the Kazakhstan Embassy in the US

  The Kazakhstan Embassy in the US puts out information and news bulletins for anyone interested. [EDIT: Not sure how to subscribe to it now, but try writing to Zhanbolat Ussenov, zhan@kazakhembus.com, who puts it out regularly.] A couple of landmarks: 1) Kazakhstan signed the United Nations’ International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on […]

  11/23/05 • (Comments Off on Updates from the Kazakhstan Embassy in the US)

• 4th of December Elections

  My first encounter with the election came when a knock came at my door on a Sunday morning. I growled, “Who’s there?” in my meanest voice as one does. A timid voice replied, “The school, about the elections.” This made sufficently little sense as to tempt to me open the door. Two middle-school girls were […]

  11/18/05 • (1)

• Relatives of Opposition Attacked

  I was watching the news today on Khabar and I caught a Ministry of the Interior official saying something about how the incident would be investigated thoroughly. He also warned that the opposition was not the opposition, but ordinary citizens with the same responsbilities as any other citizen and that no one had the right […]

  11/17/05 • (Comments Off on Relatives of Opposition Attacked)

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