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An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Nur Otan’

  • Sub Rosa Endorsement

    The article everyone is talking about today is Yermukhamet Yertysbayev’s interview with Russian newspaper, Kommersant in which he stated that Timur Kulibayev will replace President Nazarbayev if something should happen. The interview covers a lot of recent controversies, and was pretty clearly designed to allay concerns about some of the machinations in Astana, such as […]

  • “An individual must never forget those public forces that bestow trust upon him and support him.”

    Interfax has an interview with Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, advisor to the President and former Minister of Information and Culture, where he discusses the “Leader of the Nation” law. In the interview, Yertysbayev claimed that there was nothing unusual about the speed with which the law went through Parliament: Decisions of that kind are usually made very […]

  • Who Will Watch the Watchmen?

    I have heard from a number of my friends who work in the government-understandably they preferred to remain anonymous–that the government is doing something about government cars being used for personal purposes. However, the program they have put into place doesn’t seem to be optimal. To the casual observer, this does seem like a really […]