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Kazakhstan: Internet Regulation Amendments Adopted in First Reading
Yesterday the Kazakh Parliament's lower chamber has approved the first reading of the draft law on online regulation, which is meant to equate all websites (including blogs, social networks, chatrooms, forums and even online shops) with mass media. On the other hand of this law, the authorities will be granted ...
Global Recession: The world is talking. Are we listening?
There is no lack of online articles about the various aspects of the global economic crisis. Many of them are written by economic experts and policymakers. What about the perspectives of ordinary bloggers? This global roundup of blogs gathers stories of people around the world who are struggling to survive the economic downturn.
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July 1st, 2009
Kazakhstan: State-ordered blogging
rOOse, a blogger on the YVision.kz blog platform in Kazakhstan, has posted [ru] a letter from the government to the principals of schools and colleges across the country containing recommendations to upload videos to the KazTube.Kz video portal, which was created in February 2009 at the expense of the state budget.
Kazakhstan: The decay of culture and media
Today’s roundup of blogs from Kazakhstan is dedicated to culture and media and how they come across each other. Of course, it did not go without politics being involved in it, as well as well as in many other things in Kazakhstan.
June 29th, 2009
Grimaces of education in Kazakhstan
From June 01 to June 10 school graduates in Kazakhstan were undergoing Unified National Test (UNT) - the first and one of the most important tests in their lives. As Zara, one of our bloggers, writes, the average test result has been 74.9 points, which is 7 points higher ...
June 23rd, 2009
Kazakhstan: Bureaucracy, diplomacy and personality cult
Bloggers keep on commenting political situation in Kazakhstan. megakhuimyak reports that according to the new presidential decree, the Financial Police has got extra authority, informers against corrupt officials will be awarded, the civil servants' property and income will be monitored [ru]:
The bad thing is that now officials will stop working ...
June 15th, 2009
Kazkahstan: Educational Deadlock
The problem of Kazakhstani textbooks for secondary school is still very urgent - numerous misprints, factual errors and inadequate language are charachteristic for these books.
Lately, the Minister of Education reported to the ruling party on his activity, and told that his ministry is not responsible for them, as they are ...
June 5th, 2009
Kazakhstan: “Statistical Error”, a new corruption scandal
Yesterday the Kazakhstani court sanctioned the arrest of Nurman Bayanov, the Deputy Chairman of the Statistics Agency on charges of misappropriation of the funds, assigned to the national census [ru]:
"There was total of $7.6 million allocated for the census. As a result of investigation ...
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Kazakhstan: State-ordered blogging
- there are a lot of videos upload under social category, check www.kaztube.com unfortunately in ...
- Have any school videos been uploaded yet?
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