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  Happy American Independence Day

  For some reason, every Fourth of July weekend, I am unable to go to the Embassy cookout, but I am hoping to grill burgers outdoors myself this year. If only we could get decent corn on the cob in Astana, I’d be happy. I am pleased that this year they made the 4th a day […]

  7/04/11 • (Comments Off on Happy American Independence Day)

• Obama and Nazarbayev Did Discuss Zhovtis

  A more detailed look at the meeting between Obama and Nazarbayev from Joshua Kucera indicates that Obama did bring up Zhovtis and other human rights issues in some detail. And McFaul, Obama’s advisor on Eurasia and Russia on the National Security Councilapparently did not intend to indicate that Obama was overly soft on Kazakhstan and […]

  4/13/10 • (Comments Off on Obama and Nazarbayev Did Discuss Zhovtis)

• Barack Obama Wins the Presidency

  Barack Obama won a clear victory over John McCain, taking several key states that were under contention–Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida. That combined with the traditionally Democratic states in New England, the Great Lakes region and California, Washington and Oregon put him over 270 electoral votes at around 10am this morning, Astana time. John McCain gave […]

  11/15/08 • (1)

• What Does an Obama Presidency Mean for Kazakhstan?

  I have written a bit about this earlier. In a post from February, Which Candidate is Good for Central Asia?, I noted that Obama is widely viewed as having a more international outlook and being more willing to negotiate with foreign countries, even those that may have questionable human rights policies. However commentors agreed that […]

  11/06/08 • (Comments Off on What Does an Obama Presidency Mean for Kazakhstan?)

• Russians Love Obama?

  In Digging the awesome post at Chris Merriman.com on a Russian solider who covered Eminem’s Stan in a video showing the squalor of the Russian army and got exiled for dishonoring the image of the Army, I found a YouTube video of a Russian guy praising Barak Obama and disparaging John McCain. At first I […]

  10/01/08 • (Comments Off on Russians Love Obama?)

• US to Kazakhstan: Send Advice

  After the buyout of AIG, giving the government an 80% share in this major insurance company, there has been a great deal of debate. There is outrage over the way the deal went down, without any warning and apparently without a coherent plan. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expressed dismay, saying, “We are in new […]

  9/24/08 • (Comments Off on US to Kazakhstan: Send Advice)

• Joe Biden on Central Asia

  The biggest news of the past months has broken: Barack Obama, the US Democratic Party Presidential candidate, has picked Joe Biden as his vice-president. As many pundits have been pointing out for months, one of Obama’s weak points is his lack of foreign policy credentials. Biden, a Democrat from the state of Delaware, is a […]

  8/23/08 • (1)

• 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)

• Which Candidate is Good for Central Asia?

  Thanks to Registan.net for pointing me to this article on problems with US AID funding for Central Asia: Aid for almost every country in the former Soviet Union will be falling in 2008, under the current foreign affairs budget released by the US State Department. Much of the planned US assistance will go toward helping […]

  2/14/08 • (1)

• News Wrap-Up

  US ambassadorial jeep barely misses crashing into Kazakh President’s car My brother-in-law just called me to warn me to be careful about anti-Americanism in reaction to this. Presumably the guy was drunk, but that ain’t right, my friends, that just ain’t right… But from the US side: The AP story So maybe it was just […]

  4/25/06 • (Comments Off on News Wrap-Up)

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