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Adil Nurmakov

Regional Editor for Central Asia

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About Adil Nurmakov

992 posts · joined 2007-05-25

I am a 29-year-old researcher from Almaty, Kazakhstan. I hold Ph.D. in Political Science, run an NGO, a neweurasia.net's Kazakhstan section and a personal blog.

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January 9th, 2009

Central Asia & Caucasus

Daniel writes about the return of Haj pilgrims to the airport of Dushanbe, capital city of Tajikistan, noting that hundreds of police officers lined the airport's arrival terminal perimeter, taming an anxious crowd.

Central Asia & Caucasus

KZBlog writes about his experience visiting a skiing resort near Almaty, the former capital city of Kazakhstan, and concludes that there is a lot of great tourism potential, but no investment and the people with the energy and desire to improve things.

January 8th, 2009

Central Asia & Caucasus

Adam informs the readers that an 18-year-old student from Kazakhstan had been stabbed to death in south-west Moscow.

January 5th, 2009

Kazakhstan: LiveJournal Still Blocked

LiveJournal is still blocked in Kazakhstan – the national telecom operator started filtering it on October 7, although it never acknowledged this fact. Skullptor is sarcastic [ru]: I think it’s a step in the right direction. Kazakhs should be barred from Internet on the whole – there are viruses, porn, violence ...

Central Asia & Caucasus

Michael Hancock informs the readers that Uzbekistan has shut off the gas to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan isn’t sending electricity to this country, leaving it without electricity.

Central Asia & Caucasus

Joshua Foust reports that a Canadian soldier in one of the ISAF embedded training teams in Helmand, is under arrest in Afghanistan for murder.