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Tag archive for ‘CIS’
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Kazakhstan Buys Controlling Shares in Banks; Seeks to Sell Them
As part of its bailout project, the Kazakhstan government had planned to buy assets in commercial banks. After negotiations with Halyk Bank and Kazkommerstbank to take government money, attention has turned to BTA and Alliance Bank. Samruk-Kazyna, the newly formed holding that combines development holding Kazyna and Samruk holding, which owned the largest and most […]
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The CIA and Dr. Zhivago
OK, this post has nothing to do with Kazakhstan per se and the story is already 2 years old. But 2008 marked the 50th anniversary of Boris Pasternak winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for Dr. Zhivago. Because the Nobel Prize committee seals its records for 50 years, we look forward to the records being […]
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Kazakhstan Imports Hottie
Kazakhstan has made a deal with 19-year old Sesil Karatantcheva, the once up and coming tennis star who was ranked 35th in the world, and mentioned in the same breath as Ivanovic and Sharapova, before being banned for 2 years for doping. She was 16 at the time and became the first woman to be […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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+ […]
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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 […]
