September 2009

08 Sep

Events and opinions

2866

Kasachische Wochen in Wien

Von Drogen, Erpressung, Mord und Folter ist die Rede - Mitglieder der rechtspopulistischen FPÖ sollen mit dem kasachischen Geheimdienst gemeinsame Sache gemacht haben. Um möglicherweise ille... read more..

08 Sep

Economy

3144

BTA to reduce debt by $8 billion with restructuring

Kazakhstan’s largest bank, BTA, presented a restructuring proposal to investors last week that would allow it to cut its $10.3 billion debt by $8 billion to avoid bankruptcy. The debt ... read more..

U.S. Embassy to Kazakhstan insist Zhovtis’s sentence be revised

08 Sep

Events and opinions

2369

U.S. Embassy to Kazakhstan insist Zhovtis’s sentence be revised

The U.S. Embassy to Kazakhstan asks the Kazakh authorities to revise the 4 years’ imprisonment sentence imposed on Yevgeny Zhovtis, a well-known human rights defender, who was found guilty of mansla read more..

Name schools, institutes after me, Kazakh leader says

08 Sep

Events and opinions

2670

Name schools, institutes after me, Kazakh leader says

Name a university after me, a school, a scientific institute or even a science foundation; but leave my name off the towns and streets of our country, President Nursultan Nazarbayev told Kazakh scient... read more..

04 Sep

Events and opinions

3122

Black Raiders of Kazakhstan

A documentary in Russian on how Rakhat Aliyev became one of the most feared individuals in Kazakhstan. The video might be used as an alternative to the recent book publication by Aliyev, in whic... read more..

04 Sep

Extra

1020

The Aliyev Dossier

This dossier is probably a result of Aliyev‘s recent book publication „Godfather-In-Law“. The authors of this essay decided to publish a text quite different to the above mentioned book, because ETG read more..

04 Sep

Events and opinions

7427

Nazarbaev the grizzled love-lace

The old love-lace Nazarbaev has turned the state into a brothel and debauched the entire country It goes without saying that Nursultan Nazarbaev suffers from – to use medical terms – idiopathic ... read more..

04 Sep

Political process

3179

Kazakhstan: Review Rights Defender’s Harsh Sentence

Case Underscores Concerns about Country’s Upcoming OSCE Chairmanship A Kazakh court has sentenced the country's leading human rights defender to four years of imprisonment in a trial th... read more..

Kazakhstan's Human Rights Drop Through the Floor

04 Sep

Events and opinions

2652

Kazakhstan's Human Rights Drop Through the Floor

With the hasty conviction of Zhovtis, which comes on top of scores of other false cases, Kazakhstan is entering deeper and deeper into a human rights black hole, just months before Nazarbayev is meant... read more..

Kazakh BTA Bank Sues for Millions, Gets Boxer Shorts in

04 Sep

Economy

3350

Kazakh BTA Bank Sues for Millions, Gets Boxer Shorts in

Lawsuits filed by state-controlled BTA Bank, Kazakhstan’s largest lender, to recover 917 million tenge ($6 million) from a newspaper and a charity have so far yielded nothing but seven pairs of boxer ... read more..

04 Sep

Events and opinions

2499

Kazakhstan: Rights Activist Receives Four-Year Jail Term for Vehicular Manslaughter

In a case that is sending shockwaves through Kazakhstan’s non-governmental organization community, Yevgeny Zhovtis, one of the country’s leading human rights activists, was found guilty on September 3... read more..

Eurasia: Bracing for a Technological Counter-Revolution

01 Sep

Events and opinions

2949

Eurasia: Bracing for a Technological Counter-Revolution

The advent of social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook has changed the nature of political dissent. But as this summer's unrest in Iran and China has demonstrated, authoritarian-minded... read more..

01 Sep

Political process

3364

Turkmenistan plans Caspian naval base amid dispute

Turkmen president says gas-rich nation will build Caspian Sea naval base amid energy disput Turkmenistan will establish a naval base on the Caspian Sea, the Central Asian nation's president ... read more..

01 Sep

Economy

3116

Foreign investors remain sceptical about Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan-focused funds suffered big losses over the past year. But even with stock prices now rebounding, it’s proving difficult to attract international investors, who remain sceptical about the co... read more..

01 Sep

Political process

3561

Kazakhstan's OSCE chairmanship is aimed at developing relations between East, West – head of OSCE office in Kazakhstan

The decision to make Kazakhstan chairman of the OSCE was made by the member countries solely to promote the relations between the East and the West, said Alexander Kelchevsky, the head of the OSCE cen... read more..

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