Stories about Kazakhstan from July, 2006
Kazakhstan: Nuclear Age
neweurasia reports on Kazakhstan's entry into the nuclear age, the construction of several nuclear power plants in partnership with Russia.
Caucasus: BTC & Israel
Ben Paarmann questions those that claim that controlling the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline and accessing Central Asian and Caspian oil is a hidden motive for Israel in its fighting in Lebanon.
Kazakhstan: Criminal Medical Tender
Leila translates a Russian-language post about a health care scandal in Kazakhstan's Karaganda region.
Kazakhstan: Flashmobs
LJ user tropical-rat engages in some amateur anthropology regarding flashmobs in Kazakhstan.
Voices from Kazakhstan
Welcome to our latest round-up of blog posts and online discussions that took place in the Kazakh blogosphere in the last two weeks. The “Zhumbaktas” (“Enigma”) rock in Borovoe, a mountainous place with lakes between Astana and Kokshetau, is surrounded with legends. One of them is that a girl ended...
Kazakhstan: Infants & HIV
Irene asks who is responsible for the negligence that led to the infection of six infants with HIV in a hospital in southern Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan: Internet Development & Regulation
Leila reports on internet regulation and development in Kazakhstan. She notes that e-government is being explored in the country.
Central Asia: Eurasian Islam
Ataman Rakim argues for a Eurasian Islam that would unite Muslims of the former Soviet Union under a common identity and serve not so much as a formal set of religious and political ideas but instead as a catalyst for social initiatives.
Kazakhstan: Russian Emigration
Leila examines the potential impacts on Kazakhstan's demography of the recent Russian government decree on the resettlement of ethnic Russians from former Soviet Republics to the Russian Federation.
Kazakhstan: United
Rico of neweurasia discusses the merger of two political parties in Kazakhstan and its consequences. The first of the two parties is that of President Nursultan Nazarbaev while the other is that of his daughter, Dariga Nazarbaeva.
Kazakhstan: Internet Crackdown
With the passage of Kazakhstan's new media law, the government may be preparing to go on the attack against online journalism and other loosely regulated media, reports Leila.
Voices from Kazakhstan
Welcome to our first roundup of blog posts and online discussions that took place in the Kazakh blogosphere recently. On a World Refugee Day, 20 June, I overviewed the situation with the refugees in Kazakhstan on Neweurasia. Using the data of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kazakhstan and...
Kazakhstan: Media Wars
Leila translates a post about the debate over media regulations in Kazakhstan that argues that societ needs protection against abuses of the truth by journalists.
Kazakhstan: North of Rainbek
Ben Paarmann says that by focusing on the boom in Almaty, journalists paint an inaccurate picture of Kazakhstan.