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• Another Russian Rocket Crashes in Kazakhstan

  Following the Russian Dnepr rocket which crashed taking off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan last year, A Russian Proton rocket crashed in Karaganda Thursday. No one was hurt as the rocket crashed in an uninhabited area about 30 miles southwest of Zhezkazgan and the rocket was unmanned, carrying only a Japanese satellite. However the environmental damage to […]

  9/08/07 • (Comments Off on Another Russian Rocket Crashes in Kazakhstan)

• 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)

• 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)

• OSCE Leadership

  Christopher Pala who writes for The New York Times and The Washington Post, has an article summarizing the situation around the OSCE leadership bid. It’s a good summary in a few words but the last paragraphs highlight an issue that I haven’t seen too much discussion of: Kazakhstan’s reaction if it is turned down. European […]

  12/04/06 • (1)

• Media in Kazakhstan

  Kazakhstan.neweurasia has an interview up with Merkhat Sharipzhan, director of the Kazakh language service of RFE/RL. Very interesting look into attitudes toward Kazakh langauge–by Kazakhs (“I was unpleasantly surprised to see a “Who wants to be a Millionaire” show in Kazakh, where the majority of questions were about the nomadic way of life. Why not […]

  11/30/06 • (Comments Off on Media in Kazakhstan)

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  The Night Watch triology, and links to Kazakhstan

  Or The Night Watch and Day Watch movies and books are really cool; you should buy them now My wife and I went to buy a telephone. The store we got it from was running a contest in which if you spend between 5 and 10 thousand tenge you get a free DVD, if you […]

  9/02/06 • (Comments Off on The Night Watch triology, and links to Kazakhstan)

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