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• 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)

• Medvedev Chooses Kazakhstan First

  Thanks to Net News Publisher for bringing this to my attention. However as a resident of Astana it was hard to miss the fact that the newly inaugurated Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev, was recently here. Roads were blocked off, Russian flags were hanging from hotels and planted outside Bayterek. Black Mercedes and Land Cruisers with […]

  5/28/08 • (Comments Off on Medvedev Chooses Kazakhstan First)

• Useful Russian for English Football Fans

  Something a dear friend send me that’s going around the Russian Internets 20 phrases in Russian That Will be of Use to English Football Fans during the Champion League Finals in Moscow. It appears to have originated with Prosports a popular Russian sports journal, but I can’t find it linked there. It’s very funny and […]

  5/23/08 • (Comments Off on Useful Russian for English Football Fans)

• Neo-Nazis in Russia Getting More Violent

  Patrick Frost at Central Asia Foreign Policy Blog recently posted a disturbing article about violence against minorities in Russia. Of course, most of the non-Slavic residents are from Central Asia and the Caucacus. Around 50 people were killed in clear hate crimes in the first three months of 2008, according to human rights groups. That’s […]

  5/14/08 • (Comments Off on Neo-Nazis in Russia Getting More Violent)

• New Ambassador Nominated

  According to various foreign news services, Richard Hoagland has been nominated by President Bush to replace John Ordway as Ambassador to Kazakhstan. Hoagland is currently serving in the U.S. Embassy to Turkmenistan and was Ambassador to Tajikistan. Hoagland was nominated as Ambassador to Armenia last year but his nomination was withdrawn in relation to questions […]

  4/06/08 • (Comments Off on New Ambassador Nominated)

• Batu’s Wife Historically Significant

  An Iranian website has put up a list of historically significant women in and near Iran and Khanum Boraksin, the wife of Batu, son of Chinghis Khan, makes the list. 1255-57 Regent Dowager Khanum Boraqcin of Hwarizim Sahi (or the Khanate of Kipchak) (Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) She was the widow of Batu, who was khan […]

  3/09/08 • (Comments Off on Batu’s Wife Historically Significant)

• Shooting from a Balcony

  According to the nomad.su the car of the Russian ambassador to Kazakhstan was shot at in Astana on the 7th of February from the balcony of an apartment building near the Russian Embassy. According to the story (originally broadcast on Channel 31 ) four 15-year olds are under suspicion. The teenagers and their parents claim […]

  2/10/08 • (Comments Off on Shooting from a Balcony)

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  Santa Claus To Invest in Kyrgyzstan

  Kazakhstan aims to position itself as a bridge between East and West, seeing it’s geographic position as a unique political and economic advantage. However the nation may have to admit that its neighbor to the south, while poorer is much more significantly placed to influence the world economy and geopolitics. According to SWECO, a Swedish […]

  12/09/07 • (Comments Off on Santa Claus To Invest in Kyrgyzstan)

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