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• Sexiest Leader in the Post-Soviet Space

  NR2.ru is holding a contest to vote for the sexiest CIS President. At the moment, Putin (Russia) and Edward Kokoyty (South Ossetia–and his presence in the list tells you this is a Russian survey!) are neck-in-neck. Nazarbayev, whose birthday is in 2 days (and I will post on what’s been going on in Astana for […]

  7/04/07 • (Comments Off on Sexiest Leader in the Post-Soviet Space)

• Apologies to Nazarbayev (Or Not…)

  EDIT: As of Tuesday, the 19th of June, Aliyev claims that the interview described below, in which he apologized to the Presdient was in fact a fake composed by the editors of “Vremya” newspaper. The editors are sticking to their guns. So maybe the announcement that the interview was fake, was in fact fake? Rakhat […]

  6/18/07 • (Comments Off on Apologies to Nazarbayev (Or Not…))

• Online Press Conference

  Yesterday the President of Kazakhstan gave a televised press-conference, answering the 30 most popular questions put to him on the e-government portal, and some of the questions emailed to him. Well, almost the top 30 questions…the most popular question: Как пропатчить KDE под FreeBSD???? How can (pay for? elect?) KDE under FreeBSD? was commented on, […]

  6/08/07 • (Comments Off on Online Press Conference)

• E-President: Your Chance to Send a Question to Nazarbayev

  On June 7th, President Nazarbayev will hold an Internet press conference, answering questions sent in through the Internet. You can write to akorda@e.gov.kz or go to go to E.Gov.kz, the Kazakhstan government electronic portal. There you can also see the questions asked, and vote for your favorite questions. He is taking questions from foreigners so […]

  6/02/07 • (Comments Off on E-President: Your Chance to Send a Question to Nazarbayev)

• President for Life?

  Today Parliament held the second meeting to vote on Amendments to the Constitution. Although most of the amendments proposed today had been discussed earlier, there was one surprise amendment. Parliament today voted to allow the First President of Kazakhstan to run for reelection as many times as he choses to[RU].

  5/18/07 • (Comments Off on President for Life?)

• Constitutional Amendments Proposed

  Today, a joint-session of Kazakhstan’s Parliament is meeting to discuss and possibly approve Constitutional Amendments. The President will be present along with the Prime Minister, the akims of the oblasts and major cities, and representatives of the President’s Administration. According to the head of the Constitutional Commission, the proposed amendments will: increase the role of […]

  5/16/07 • (Comments Off on Constitutional Amendments Proposed)

• The New Great Game Take infinity

  President Vladimir Putin was in Kazakhstan yesterday and he and President Nazarbayev will be traveling to Turkmenistan this week together. Two issues are on the agenda. First, Russia will be assisting Kazakhstan in enriching uranium for its nuclear energy power center. The two countries will be setting up a joint-uranium enrichment center. It looks like […]

  5/11/07 • (Comments Off on The New Great Game Take infinity)

• 2007 Address to the People of Kazakhstan

  On the 28th of February, the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev, gave his annual Address to the People of Kazakhstan, the speech where he gives the government its tasks and strategies for the year. You can go to Akorda.kz for the full text of the speech. Overall the speech focused on improving social protection […]

  3/01/07 • (3)

• Blogger Arrested

  There’s been some big changes in my lifestyle that have prevented me from spending much time on this blog for the past two weeks, but I noticed an item today that is well worth mentioning. Leila at Kazakhstan.Neweurasia has an article up about a blogger on trial for insulting the honor and dignity of the […]

  1/27/07 • (Comments Off on Blogger Arrested)

• NurOtan

  Yesterday at a meeting of the party of Otan, the party that holds the majority in Parliament and the party of the President two major decisions were made: 1) Otan will change its name to NurOtan. While Nur means “sunlight” in Kazakh, and Otan means “fatherland”, no one can doubt that the name change refers […]

  12/23/06 • (Comments Off on NurOtan)

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