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2011-09-23
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Tag archive for ‘President’
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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.
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
