The European Commission has been critical about some provisions in the Kazakh laws regulating the conduct of rallies and demonstrations.
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by J.G. Cefalo
Kazakhstan is being rewarded for these flagrant abuses of authority and civil society with chairmanship of the OSCE in 2010. That decision may encourage leaders of other authoritarian states who routinely scoff at democratization and sacrifice the interests of their citizens for their own political and economic gains.
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by BAGHDAD AMREYEV
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will make an official visit to Turkey on Oct. 21-24. This will bear a historic meaning in terms of content. Nazarbayev made his last official visit to Turkey in 2003; however, there have been significant changes in the content of bilateral relations between Turkey and Kazakhstan in the last six years.
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Reporting by Olga Orininskaya; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov
A Kazakh court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a human rights activist who was jailed last month over a road accident in a trial criticised by rights campaigners as politically motivated.
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The former head of Kazakhstan's state nuclear corporation, KazAtomProm, who has been in jail since May, was hospitalized on October 19, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
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By Alistair Dawber
Kazakhmys, the Kazakh mining giant, yesterday announced major funding plans, including borrowing $2bn (£1.3bn) in loans, which it hopes will help get some major unfunded copper projects off the ground.
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The former Soviet bloc economy will contract by a sharper-than-expected 6.3 percent in 2009 before returning to growth next year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development forecast Thursday.
