Stories about Kazakhstan from April, 2007
Kazakhstan: Investment & the Court
An American businessman in Kazakhstan, Marc Seidenfeld, has been arrested in what appears to be a frame-up by local business interests to retaliate against him for selling his business in...
Central Asia: The EU's New Plan
Near|Abroad discusses the European Union's new diplomacy plans for engaging Central Asia.
Kazakhstan: Military Reform Dance
Bonnie Boyd reports on how Kazakhstan is carefully navigating domestic and international interests to reform its military.
Central Asia: Old Photographs
Sue Sypko discusses how photographs taken by Russian Imperial and Soviet photographers communicate different meanings.
Interview with the Blogger, adam_kesher
Adil Nurmakov is a 28-year old political scientist and a journalist from Almaty, who started as a blogger in 2004. He writes his own Livejournal adam_kesher (ru) and is a...
Kazakhstan: Interview with Mizinov
Leila Tanayeva interviews Yuri Mizinov of Zonakz.net, an online newspaper planning to launch blogs soon.
Kazakhstan: Kokpar
It's variously alled buzkashi some places, ulak in others, and “goat polo” to foreigners grasping to understand the sport. In southern Kazakhstan, they call this sport, which involves teams on...
Kazakhstan: Big Numbers
Ben Paarmann breaks down economic goals for 2015 from Kazakhstan's government, and finds them quite ambitious.
Interview with Kazis Toguzbayev, Journalist/Blogger from Kazakhstan
Kazis Toguzbayev is a Kazakhstani journalist/blogger, who was sued for insulting the honor and the dignity of the president in January 2007 when he uploaded two articles on a group blog KUB.kz. Kazis is 59, married and has grandchildren. He is a colonel of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan in reserve and a pensioner for 10 years now. We spoke about the lessons that he learned after the trial and about the citizen journalism in Kazakhstan.
Central Asia: Hot Air & the Aral
Bonnie Boyd writes that since 1991, there has been more hot air than progress on saving the Aral Sea.
Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan: Irrigation and the Aral
Bonnie Boyd discusses how Soviet irrigation policies led to the depletion of the Aral Sea.
Central Asia & Caucasus: Corporate Philanthropy
At neweurasia, Marianna argues that NGOs need to develop a culture of giving across Central Asia and the Caucasus to encourage local corporate support of the work that NGOs do.
Kazakhstan: Jury Deliberation
Leila reports on the starts of jury trials in Kazakhstan.
Central Asia: Aral's Cost
Bonnie Boyd begins a series of posts on the Aral Sea by discussing how we calculate the cost of the sea's loss.
Central Asia: Interview with a Scholar
neweurasia interviews well known American Central Asia scholar Martha Brill Olcott.
Kazakhstan: Building Laureates
Kazakhstan's president has determined that Kazakhstan needs Nobel laureates, reports Ben Paarmann, who notes that though initiatives to improve science funding will be good for Kazakhstan, the kind of science...
Kazakhstan: Laghman
News from the Caravan takes readers on another culinary adventure, making the popular Central Asian dish laghman.
Central Asia: Climate Change
Bonnie Boyd reports on how climate change affects Central Asia.
Russia, Central Asia: Russian Diaspora
Siberian Light links to neweurasia‘s stories on the Russian Germans and ethnic Russians living in Central Asia.
Kazakhstan: Architecture Square
Leila Tanayeva reports on a new, ultra-moder construction project for Almaty's Republic Square.
