· July, 2007

Stories about Kazakhstan from July, 2007

Central Asia: Expert interview

James of neweurasia interviews Central Asia specialist Dr. Eric McGlinchey – the topics of the long conversation include radical Islam, Russian influence, the regime in Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan's development.

31 July 2007

Kazakhstan: Team Astana withdraws

neweurasia reports that this year's Tour de France is over for the Kazakhstani Team Astana following the positive doping test of the team's captain Alexander Vinokurov.

24 July 2007

Kazakhstan: All-nation leader

Arthur finds that a recent press release of the Kazakhstani embassy is not even trying to hide the fact that President Nazarbayev, following recent constitutional changes, is now the “all-nation...

20 July 2007

Kazakhstan: Blogs not only for debate, but also a source

A lot of goodies in the Kazakhstani blogosphere this week: The big bosses walk away unscathed after two important trials, right-hand-drive advocates celebrate their victory, Kazakhstan is set to advance in nuclear energy production, many facts and figures, and much more in this week's roundup.

20 July 2007

Kazakhstan: Nuclear proliferation?

At Registan.net, Nathan is discussing whether the purchase of 10% of Westinghouse's shares by a Kazakh nuclear energy firm is really as problematic as argued by a prominent blogger.

19 July 2007

Central Asia: Evil ranking

BordersCA, a blog on borders in Central Asia, is reporting that Turkmenistan is slowly loosing its “Evil-Number-One” status to Uzbekistan. A sign of this are the small, yet continuous changes...

16 July 2007

Central Asia: Clash of opinion

Josh Foust engages in an extremely interesting discussion with an Uzbek journalist (working for a Russian news agency) about Western promotion of democracy in Central Asia.

14 July 2007

Kazakhstan: Transforming spaces

Kazakhstan's economic boom has led to manifold and ambitious construction projects of often questionable quality. Artpologist.net focuses on the studios and personal spaces of artists (such as Galim Madanov) amidst...

9 July 2007

Kazakhstan: Bloggers discuss politics

This week the Kazakh blogosphere is brimming with post about the country's all-powerful President, Nursultan Nazarbayev. He decided to rename a whole city and has continuous trouble with his former son-in-law. And there's much more that Kazakhstani have to say about what's going on in their country.

5 July 2007

Kazakhstan: HIV scandal

On neweurasia, Arthur gives an update about a trial in southern Kazakhstan, where doctors, but no bosses, were jailed for negligence and corruption leading to the infection of more than...

5 July 2007

Kazakhstan: Free lunch

Irene thinks (RUS) that the behaviour of certain government officials is not really promoting foreign direct investment in Kazakhstan. KZBlog provides the gist of the story in English: A German...

4 July 2007

Kazakhstan: Music

Music in Kazakhstan finds that Kazakh rap doesn't get the attention it deserves while an entire new magazine is devoted to the dombyra – a classical string instrument.

3 July 2007

Kazakhstan: Fun food

KZBlog finds some funky food in Kazakhstan's supermarkets, including USSR icecream and horsemeat-flavoured chips/crisps.

3 July 2007

Central Asia: Ask the expert

James of neweurasia asks regional expert Dr. Johannes Linn about economic development, regional geopolitics, human rights, and development prospects for Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

3 July 2007

Kazakhstan: Saving the Saiga

News from the Caravan has an in-depth post about the Saiga Steppe antelopes and what needs to be done to save the endangered species from extinction.

2 July 2007