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• And Then There Was One

  While Kazakhstan has taken some more medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics since I last blogged, the boxing team upon which many hopes were pinned isn’t performing according to expectations. Of course neither is the US boxing team which went home with one lousy bronze so maybe it’s just a bad moon over China. The […]

  8/23/08 • (Comments Off on And Then There Was One)

• New Ambassador Nominated

  According to various foreign news services, Richard Hoagland has been nominated by President Bush to replace John Ordway as Ambassador to Kazakhstan. Hoagland is currently serving in the U.S. Embassy to Turkmenistan and was Ambassador to Tajikistan. Hoagland was nominated as Ambassador to Armenia last year but his nomination was withdrawn in relation to questions […]

  4/06/08 • (Comments Off on New Ambassador Nominated)

• Public Corruption Percieved as Worse

  The Corruption Perceptions Index for 2007 from Transparency International was released on the 27th of September. A table of the results can be found here. Kazakhstan, with a score of 2.1 out of 10, is tied with Azerbaijan, the Republic of Congo, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe and 5 other countries as 150th for corruption in […]

  10/06/07 • (Comments Off on Public Corruption Percieved as Worse)

• 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)