Comments on: Kazakhstan: A President for Life http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/18/kazakhstan-a-president-for-life/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:03:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: yashar http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/18/kazakhstan-a-president-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1167111 yashar Fri, 25 May 2007 09:53:03 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/18/kazakhstan-a-president-for-life/#comment-1167111 Will happy to see you, guys, at my original blog in Russian on http://www.yashar.ru Will happy to see you, guys, at my original blog in Russian on http://www.yashar.ru

]]> By: KZBlog http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/18/kazakhstan-a-president-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1160753 KZBlog Thu, 24 May 2007 03:56:47 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/18/kazakhstan-a-president-for-life/#comment-1160753 yashar: There really is no better candidate than Nazarbayev. Partially that is because no one is given national access to the media, as Leila wrote, so people are unaware of what other people in the gov't are doing, let alone any opposition or independent candidates. Also, since all roads lead to Ak Orda, no one has the experience necessary to prove that they would be a good President (or so it would seem). Unfortunately everything is signed by Nazarbayev, so everything appears to be his idea, as if no one else has any good ideas or ability to get anything done. It's a mess and this new law is just putting off the inevitable when someone else will have to become President, but within the mess we have, Nazarbayev really is the best option. yashar: There really is no better candidate than Nazarbayev. Partially that is because no one is given national access to the media, as Leila wrote, so people are unaware of what other people in the gov’t are doing, let alone any opposition or independent candidates. Also, since all roads lead to Ak Orda, no one has the experience necessary to prove that they would be a good President (or so it would seem). Unfortunately everything is signed by Nazarbayev, so everything appears to be his idea, as if no one else has any good ideas or ability to get anything done. It’s a mess and this new law is just putting off the inevitable when someone else will have to become President, but within the mess we have, Nazarbayev really is the best option.

]]> By: Leila http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/18/kazakhstan-a-president-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1159340 Leila Wed, 23 May 2007 22:05:54 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/18/kazakhstan-a-president-for-life/#comment-1159340 yashar, that is what I am asking myself too! it's all combined I think. The opposition does not have channels - all administrative resources and media are dominated by the regime. Also, people do live better now, comparing to the 90s. There are jobs for young people, opportunities for business, there is (relative) ethnic stability. They compare "stable" Kazakhstan with revolutionary Kyrgyzstan or tyrannic Turkmenistan and decide it's better to stay with the same leader, they haven't tried any other, right. People tend to choose the easiest ways. I think so... yashar, that is what I am asking myself too! it’s all combined I think. The opposition does not have channels – all administrative resources and media are dominated by the regime. Also, people do live better now, comparing to the 90s. There are jobs for young people, opportunities for business, there is (relative) ethnic stability. They compare “stable” Kazakhstan with revolutionary Kyrgyzstan or tyrannic Turkmenistan and decide it’s better to stay with the same leader, they haven’t tried any other, right. People tend to choose the easiest ways. I think so…

]]> By: yashar http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/18/kazakhstan-a-president-for-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1156722 yashar Wed, 23 May 2007 10:05:14 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/18/kazakhstan-a-president-for-life/#comment-1156722 Once I wrote an opinion on the long-term-presidency in our countries (Central Asia) especially Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and I had always met with the opinion of Kazakh youth that there is no better candidate but Nazarbayev. The question is: Is that true? Or do poor oppositionists fail to introduce themselves or fear something, or may be the fact that there is nowhere to show yourself(advertise/start campaigns), as all major influential media in the hands of Nazarbayev’s family members(his daughter) and those who close to him? извиняюсь за свой английский надеюсь понятны мысл.. давно я неписал на этом языке :) Once I wrote an opinion on the long-term-presidency in our countries (Central Asia) especially Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and I had always met with the opinion of Kazakh youth that there is no better candidate but Nazarbayev.

The question is: Is that true? Or do poor oppositionists fail to introduce themselves or fear something, or may be the fact that there is nowhere to show yourself(advertise/start campaigns), as all major influential media in the hands of Nazarbayev’s family members(his daughter) and those who close to him?

извиняюсь за свой английский надеюсь понятны мысл.. давно я неписал на этом языке :)

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