Stories about Kazakhstan from November, 2006
Kazakhstan: Interview with Merkhat Sharipzhan
neweurasia interviews Merkhat Sharipzhan, the director of RFE/RL's Kazakh service about his work and media in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan: Fashion
KZ Blog has a bit of fun with photos from Kazakhstan's Fashion Week.
Kazakhstan: Fashion
Almaty's fashion week just wrapped up and KZ Blog reports.
Kazakhstan: Video & Image
Registan.net discusses the very different images created by Kazakhstan's promotional videos and videos of the destruction of a Hare Krishna community in southern Kazakhstan.
Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus
Astana (Kazakhstan) – Waiting for a bus – photograph taken by Richard Messenger (Many more bus stops here) While we're waiting for the bus, why not check out some of...
Kazakhstan: Religious Tolerance
KZBlog reports on religious and ethnic tolerance in Kazakhstan in the wake of the destruction of the only Hare Krishna community in the country.
Kazakhstan: Right Hand Rights!
Leila reports on protests in Kazakhstan over the the government's decision to ban the import and sale of cars with steering wheels on the right side.
Kazakhstan: Exact Change
KZ Blog discusses the overwhelming preference for exact change in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan: Kazaksha
KZ Blog has a lengthy report on the Kazakhstani government's Kazakh language promotion policies and the anxieties felt by the large population that only uses Russian.
Kazakhstan: Bread and Circuses
Sean Roberts looks at some recent policy decisions of the Kazakh government and notices an active middle class making its voice heard.
Voices from Kazakhstan
Kazakh President in Aralsk by lambro “Kazakhstan invented a national chess game. Introduced a new chess piece “President”. It can go as it wishes and take whatever it wishes to...
Jamaica:”Borat” and the thin line
For the Jamaican blogger BassChocolate, watching — and laughing at — the film Borat raises some conflicting issues: “Many Jamaicans are offended with Americans portray us as Weed Orgy Central....
Kazakhstan: Western Trading
Ben Paarmann reports on the drive of some Kazakh companies to Western stock exchanges and some of the positive benefits this will usher in.
Kazakhstan: Party Reconfiguration
Sean Roberts reports on the reconfiguration of Kazakhstan's political party landscape.
Kazakhstan: Filipinos in Tengiz
KZ Blog notes reports of violence and robbery against Filipino workers in Tengiz, Kazakhstan that have been overshadowed by the violence between Turkish and Kazakh workers there.
Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus
Club in Almaty/Kazakhstan – (c) Christopher Herwig – www.herwigphoto.com Welcome to the latest roundup of the Central Asian and Caucasian blogospheres. A lot has happened over the past two weeks...
Kazakhstan: Of Phony Anthems
KZ Blog writes that the fake national anthem featured in the Borat movie is good satire of some of the things in which the Kazakhstani government takes pride.
Kazakhstan: Free Haircuts
KZBlog reports on a bizarre scheme in Astana, Kazakhstan in which local officials have required hair salons to provide free services to pensioners and veterans of World War II.
Kazakhstan: Borat Opens
Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat, the story/mockumentary telling a “Kazakh” journalist's quest across America to marry Pamela Anderson, opened over the weekend in North America much of Europe and neweurasia looks...
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan: Steinmeier
neweurasia reports on the visits of Germany's foreign minister to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Both trips were part of a region-wide tour that comes as Germany works on a comprehensive Central...
Kazakhstan: Borat
With the “Borat” movie appearing in theaters today, Sean Roberts asks if Americans really get the joke and KZBlog reports on some reactions to the character.
