· February, 2007

Stories about Kazakhstan from February, 2007

Kazakhstan: Nation-Branding

  5 February 2007

Sean Roberts wonders if one can speak of “pulling a Kazakhstan,” that is, performing successful but sloppy nation-branding. Registan.net has a related post discussing comments by a nation-branding specialist comparing Montreal to Kazakhstan, leading to a quite undiplomatic debate.

Kazakhstan: A Long Way to Go

1 February 2007

Irene crunches the numbers and points out that even if every single person in Kazakhstan blogged, there would still be far more Chinese bloggers. She looks at possible reasons why Kazakhstan's blogging community is as small as it is.