Adil Nurmakov · September, 2009

Latest posts by Adil Nurmakov from September, 2009

Turkmenistan: Reforms back on the shelf?

  26 September 2009

Annasoltan analyzes the political impact of the visit of Turkmenistan president Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov to the United States, and says that it will be difficult for him to present himself as a reformer who would take Turkmenistan out of present isolationist course.

Kazakhstan: Propaganda Allergies

  20 September 2009

As megakhuimyak described it, last week in Kazakhstan “the senility grew ever stronger.” The country is astir over the president’s former son-in-law, Rakhat Aliev, now émigré enemy of the state # 1. People’s fear of the once-omnipotent oligarch and secret service official has turned into fear of being associated with...