· December, 2007

Stories about Kazakhstan from December, 2007

Kazakhstan: Crisis Has Gone?

Arseny provides excepts from the interview to Bloomberg, given by Kazakhstan’s top banker, saying the country has got rid of the crisis.

25 December 2007

Kazakhstan: Almaty travelogue

The Schirm Project posts a travelogue entry on his trip to Almaty, the commercial capital of Kazakhstan, saying it can be compared to a cross between Reno, Washington DC, and...

24 December 2007

Kazakhstan: Blogosphere’s Self-Reflection

Recently, the Kazakhstani blogosphere has suddenly become interested in what the blogs really are and what sort of impact they have. Bloggers produced series of posts on this topic approximately...

20 December 2007

Kazakhstan: What is Ak-Orda?

Arseny posts a funny story that vividly indicates how many people living in Astana’s Old Town – a Soviet provincial cityscape – sometimes do not have any idea of what...

19 December 2007

Kazakhstan: Zebra Mussels Invade U.S.

Steve LeVine says that communities around the U.S. are in a panic over the creeping invasion of a native Caspian Sea mollusk called the Zebra Mussel, which had been first...

18 December 2007

Kazakhstan: Nabucco Pipeline Lacks Commitments

Steve LeVine notes that this week's Washington appearance of Valekh Aleskerov, Azerbaijan's former chief oil negotiator, highlighted the absence thus far of concrete commitments by Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to a...

14 December 2007