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• Poppa, Monarchiya

  When in the course of human events, a nation suffers hardships and prospers and one group of people prospers beyond the limits of all predictions, they get odd ideas. Many accuse the Bush administration of trying to use political and material capital to remake the fundamental core of the United States government. Now in Kazakhstan, […]

  9/20/06 • (Comments Off on Poppa, Monarchiya)

• The Visit

  On the eve of Nazarbayev’s visit to the White House on Sept. 29th, speculation and analysis abounds as to what the issues on the table will be. The White House site has a nice list: Democracy Promotion: Kazakhstan Neweurasia has put up a slighting cartoon from The Economist. This is one big issue. And one […]

  9/01/06 • (Comments Off on The Visit)

• News Wrap-Up

  US ambassadorial jeep barely misses crashing into Kazakh President’s car My brother-in-law just called me to warn me to be careful about anti-Americanism in reaction to this. Presumably the guy was drunk, but that ain’t right, my friends, that just ain’t right… But from the US side: The AP story So maybe it was just […]

  4/25/06 • (Comments Off on News Wrap-Up)

• 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)

• Aftermath: Reports and Opinions

  Some Primary Sources for your Evaluating Pleasure The OSCE preliminary findings and conclusions An interesting point not likely to picked up elsewhere: In observed polling stations with e-voting, a large majority of voters appeared to have favoured voting by paper ballot. The Institute for War and Peace Reporting Too Good to Be True? via kazakhstan.neweurasia.net, […]

  12/07/05 • (Comments Off on Aftermath: Reports and Opinions)

• 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)

• 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)

• 50 Things About Kazakhstan

  DNews, claiming to be: “Opinionated news exctraction (sic) for all by that geeky accountant type guy…” proves that the Borat incident has hit such levels as to reach Australia. I neglected to append the comment from the official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that 1) Borat might be an agent of someone or other–that […]

  11/22/05 • (Comments Off on 50 Things About Kazakhstan)

• 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)

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