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• Survey of Expats About Life in Kazakhstan

  Kazakhnomad has yet another interesting series of posts up on a survey she did of expats living in Kazakhstan. If you start from that post and go forward in time, you’ll be able to see all the questions and results. I thought it might be fun to answer the questions myself as well, or at […]

  12/29/10 • (12)

• Make of This What You Will

  A child born at the end of November was named Summit in honor of the OSCE summit. I had heard of a child named Summitkhan so I wonder if this is the same child or if there’s another one out there. Frankly, I would hate my parents (or in this case, my grandparents, since they’re […]

  12/18/10 • (5)

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  OSCE Summit

  Apparently I have achieved a certain status as a Kazakhstan/Central Asia blogger status where people expect me to comment on events. I even get mentioned in the same sentence as Registan.net, something I had only dreamed of. So here is my take on the OSCE summit. First though let me point out that it is […]

  12/07/10 • (2)

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  Road Closings During OSCE Summit

  There’s been a lot of rumors and different sources of information about what will happen us to here in Astana during the OSCE Summit. They stuck this map of which roads will be closed to public traffic and when in my door the other day and I thought I’d share it with you. Click on […]

  11/21/10 • (3)

• Another Huffington Post Controversy

  The Kazakhstan Embassy has seen fit to respond to an article on Huffington post giving Kazakhstan a low midterm grade for its OSCE Chairmanship. Mr. Ardaq Adilet made a number of comments criticizing the article and these have been complied into a special report sent out by the Kazakhstan Embassy to the US. I always […]

  5/25/10 • (Comments Off on Another Huffington Post Controversy)

• OSCE Visits Zhovtis; Kazakhstan Disobeyed

  Eurasianet reports that an OSCE representative (Matteo Mecacci, senior member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Human Rights) went to see Yevgeniy Zhovtis, a human rights leader and head of the Bota NGO who was imprisoned earlier this year for vehicular manslaughter. Many have protested the government’s handling of the case, claiming that Zhovtis […]

  5/21/10 • (2)

• Kazakhstan Reacts to Events in Kyrgyzstan

  Two articles on Kazakhstan’s reactions to events. First, Kanat Saudabayev, Minister of Foreign Affairs and chairman of the OSCE, is sending his Special Envoys to Bishkek [RUS], Zhanikbek Karibzhanov, who is deputy speaker of the Mazhilis of Kazakhstan as well as chairman of the Kazakh-Kyrgyz Interparliamentary group. Herbert Zalberg, Director of the OSCE Center for […]

  4/09/10 • (Comments Off on Kazakhstan Reacts to Events in Kyrgyzstan)

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  Commemorative Tenge

  As usual in Kazakhstan, whenever the government plans to do anything rumors spread and everyone prepares for the worst. So it was a few months ago when I was told by several people that they were planning to replace the 1000 tenge bill. Everyone was trying to use up all their 1000 tenges.

  As it turns out, what really happened is that the National Bank has issued a commemorative 1000-tenge bill in honor of Kazakhstan’s 2010 chairmanship of the OSCE.

  3/19/10 • (1)

• 2010

  It is official. Kazakhstan will assume chairmanship of the OSCE in 2010, the bid for 2009 having failed. Inform.kz, the official news agency of the government puts it optimistically, preferring to focus on the positive outcome rather than the failure and quotes the Kazakhstan delegation’s report: We consider that the selection of Kazakhstan to the […]

  12/01/07 • (Comments Off on 2010)

• OSCE to Offer Silver Lining to Kazakhstan

  According to the MSNBC.com, Kazakhstan will likely not be given the chairmanship of the OSCE in 2009. As the preliminaries get underway for the OSCE annual meeting in Madrid on the 29th of Nov, sources indicate that Kazakhstan will be offered the chairmanship in 2010 or 2011. Spain, as the current chairman is putting together […]

  11/28/07 • (Comments Off on OSCE to Offer Silver Lining to Kazakhstan)

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