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An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Law’

  • Would the Koran Have Been Approved by the Government?

    I’ve been meaning to post on the new religion law which just passed the Senate in Kazakhstan leaving it up to the president to sign. The Huffington Post has nice breakdown of the law, what it says and where it sits in historical context. And a link to a nice review of the law! As […]

  • All Signatures Will Be Destroyed

    An interesting twist on the referendum story. The Central Election Committee issued an order that all signatures will be destroyed, which is to say, All the [petition] papers with the signatures have the status of confidential information and should be kept at the [Central Election Commission] for three months and then should be destroyed in […]

  • Leader of the Nation Law Passed

    As predicted, the Leader of the Nation law entered into force [RUS] quietly this morning. Interestingly, the Kazakhstan Today article as republished on zona.kz spends a lot of time defending the legality of the law, noting that everyone who should have signed it, did in fact sign it. Except the President. The article goes on […]