Kazakhstan: US Relations

Sean Roberts details the tensions and issues in US-Kazakhstan relations.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan: Japan Visit

Registan.net and neweurasia both comment on Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Central Asia: Borders 3

Ben Paarmann posts the third part of his series on the determination of borders in Central Asia.

Central Asia: Chinese Motives

Sean Roberts discusses Chinese goals in Central Asia.

Kazakhstan: Sarsenbaev & Change

Sean Roberts examines whether or not the murder of Kazakh opposition politician Altynbek Sarsenbaev will have changed anything as the trial of those accused of murdering him wraps up.

Kazakhstan: Almaty Driving

After having lived there for seven years, Narcogen has started driving every day, which is quite an experience.

Central Asia: Borders 2

Ben Paarmann has posted part two of his series of posts on the determination of Central Asia's national borders during the Soviet period.

Kazakhstan: Urker

Leila and Ben of neweurasia post an interview with Urker, a Kazakh pop-folk band from Almaty.

Kazakhstan: Responding to Borat

Sean Roberts reports that awarenes of Kazakhstan in the United States is much higher than it was a few years ago as a result of Sascha Baron-Cohen's “Borat” character. He notes that an official Kazakh media campaign campaign promoting the country in the leadup to President Nursultan Nazarbaev's visit to...

Central Asia & Caucasus: Press Freedom

Neil of neweurasia reports on press freedom in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Central Asia & Caucasus: 15 Years of Independence

neweurasia's team of bloggers have lengthy posts looking back at 15 years of independence in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Former Soviet Union: 15 Years Since the August Coup

Today is 15 years since the beginning of the events that some people consider (RUS) Russia's Orange Revolution – but which are better known as the August Putsch. This year, on August 20 and 21, memorial services will be held in Moscow for Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov,...

Kazakhstan: State Funding for NGOs

NGOs in Kazakhstan are worried about the possibility of the state funding them in the future. Leila looks at the pros and cons of state funding for Kazakhstan's NGOs.

Central Asia: Borders

Ben Paarmann begins to examine the reasons for Central Asia's current borders, which are often incorrectly called “arbitrary.”

Voices from Kazakhstan

Almaty Opera House Welcome to our latest round-up of blog posts and online discussions that took place in Kazakh blogosphere. neweurasia's Basil B. Akimov, a Karaganda journalist and editor of www.mediaprovinces.kz and www.medialaw.kz sites, writes about change of rules in the Supreme Court in Astana (RU). You have to show...

Kazakhstan: Residency Ordeal

Irene continues to detail the trials and tirbulations involved in getting a residency permit in Kazakhstan (RU).

Voices from Central Asia

Kazakhstan: Doing Business

Leila of neweurasia writes about doing business in Kazakhstan and interviews a manager from a firm supplying IT equipment to Kazakhstan for additional perspective.

Kazakhstan: Bowling

Andrey of neweurasia offers bowling as a summer sport (ru).

Kazakhstan: Volga – Kazakhstan – Braunschweig

Ben Paarmann translates a story from German that tells how Volga Germans who were exiled to Kazakhstan are returning to Germany.

Kazakhstan: EITI

Ben Paarmann writes about Kazakhstan's implementation of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative statutes. He says that if the EITI statutes are successfully implemented, high-level corruption in Kazakhstan could be seriously reduced.