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Tag archive for ‘Yevgeniy Zhovtis’

• Tweet

  RT @robertsreport: A Kazakh prankster in DC? Zhovtis pic outside KZ embassy sent to me by some Kuat Dikibaev… http://twitpic.com/1qwmma

  5/26/10 • (Comments Off on Tweet)

• Another Huffington Post Controversy

  The Kazakhstan Embassy has seen fit to respond to an article on Huffington post giving Kazakhstan a low midterm grade for its OSCE Chairmanship. Mr. Ardaq Adilet made a number of comments criticizing the article and these have been complied into a special report sent out by the Kazakhstan Embassy to the US. I always […]

  5/25/10 • (Comments Off on Another Huffington Post Controversy)

• OSCE Visits Zhovtis; Kazakhstan Disobeyed

  Eurasianet reports that an OSCE representative (Matteo Mecacci, senior member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Human Rights) went to see Yevgeniy Zhovtis, a human rights leader and head of the Bota NGO who was imprisoned earlier this year for vehicular manslaughter. Many have protested the government’s handling of the case, claiming that Zhovtis […]

  5/21/10 • (2)

• 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)

• 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)