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• 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 […]

  10/11/11 • (6)

• MPs Too Busy to Pay

  I’ve mentioned before the phenomenon in Kazakhstan that people don’t pay their utility bills. Often, when I complain about this, people tell me that those who don’t pay are too poor. However when I see my neighbors driving Porsche Cayennes and new BMWs (or reporting robberies of 5 computers from their apartment), I find it […]

  6/16/11 • (Comments Off on MPs Too Busy to Pay)

• The Inauguration and the New Government

  The inauguration was apparently the place to be today; even the candidates who ran against Nazarbayev attended. In his speech, the President thanked the people for reelecting him and listed the world leaders who had congratulated him on his victory (conspicuously absent from the list were Obama, Ban-Ki Moon and Cameron). He also claimed that […]

  4/08/11 • (Comments Off on The Inauguration and the New Government)

• Parliament Passes Amendment

  Today in a joint session, the Parliament of Kazakhstan unanimously approved a motion to amend the Constitution in order to extend the term of Nazarbayev until the year 2020, overcoming the President’s earlier veto. The head of the Central Election Committee, Kuandyk Turgankulov, who approved the referendum from the people of Kazakhstan was in Parliament […]

  1/14/11 • (2)

• The Big Day

  Today there will be a joint session of both houses of Parliament and the referendum to extend Nazarbayev’s term until 2020 is on the agenda. The Central Election Committee in a record 3 days checked all 5 million signatures and found only 194,000 were invalid. They have sent the petition on to the President. The […]

  1/14/11 • (Comments Off on The Big Day)

• It Ain’t Over Til the Parliament Sings

  Following on news that Nazarbayev vetoed the referendum to extend his term until the year 2020, ITAR-TASS reports that the Speaker of the Mazhilis (the lower house of Kazakhstan’s Parliament) has called for a joint session on the 14th of January. So far there is no word on the agenda of the meeting, however some […]

  1/10/11 • (1)

• Nazarbayev Turns Down Referendum

  Kazakhstan Today is reporting that Nazarbayev has rejected the referendum on extending his presidential term to 2020. He issued a decree today: “On the rejection of the proposals of the Parliament of Kazakhstan for an all-nation referendum amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan,” in which he official rejected the Parliament’s proposal for […]

  1/07/11 • (1)

• People’s Referendum

  Hope everyone had a nice New Year’s. Following up on the referendum to allow Nazarbayev to remain in power until 2020, which requires 200 000 signatures to be approved, one group in Almaty reports that they already have 300,000 signatures in support of the referendum. However they will continue to collect signatures until 11 Jan […]

  1/05/11 • (1)

• President For Life, Or At Least Until 2020

  As has been widely reported, a movement to keep Nazarbayev as President until 2020 is underway. The “Initiative Group For Conducting a National Referendum to Extend the Powers of the First President of Kazakhstan” met on December 23 Ust-Kamenogorsk and called for a referendum that would extend Nazarbayev’s term until 2020, in other words giving […]

  12/27/10 • (2)

• Deputy Calls for Solution to Evolution/Creation Debate

  I never did get around to posting about the Kazakh student who beat up 2 men in the UK after hearing them make a joke about Borat. I then failed to post about member of Parliament in Kazakhstan, Bekbolat Tleukhan’s reaction to the attack, mainly that he blames Sascha Baron Cohen because “our students abroad […]

  12/26/10 • (1)

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