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| Kazakhstan traveler guide | | 2008-07-10 12:01:00 | | Kazakhstan located in the heart of Central Asia on the historical oldest road which called the "silk road" and that mentioned road used in the past by silk traders between China and North Europe. Exactly it is locate in the old crossroad of most ancient civilizations. The distance of Kazakhstan is about 2727300 square km from the western borders of China to the sea of Caspian and from the Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the South and Russia in the North. The people of Kazakhstan is about seventeen million according to 1998, most of them work and live and educate in the cities. Kazakhstan is the land which you can fined mixed climate between the sun of Africa and the saddles snow of North Europe, Imagine meeting between the hot climate and the cold climate you can find in Kazakhstan. Sand deserts with a green turf and great stone with various colors all over the land of Kazakhstan tell the Aral Sea. It was the second largest territory of the former Soviet republics. Now it divide... | | By: Travel to Famous Sites | | |
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| | Financial Times on Kazakhstan | | 2007-07-03 23:22:00 | | If you want to know anything about the political economy of CIS countries, there is no better place to turn than the Financial Times. Always erudite, FT’s special reports provide a broad evaluation of the region’s economy, politics, culture, and society often without the usual ideological claptrap about the incompatibility between capitalism and authoritarianism. Take for example the business daily’s most recent special on Kazakhstan. I think that FT understands the essence of post-Soviet politics as a combination between one man rule, family circles, elite clans, and bureaucratic pressures. There is no total one man rule, only a network of alliances between competing elites. At the center stands, in the case of Kazakhstan, Nursulatan Nazarbayev, who parcels out power and pieces of the political and economic pie to maintain the integrity of the state. I think this description of Nazarbayev’s power is spot on: The canny Mr. Nazarbayev has built an authoritarian re... | | By: Sean's Russia Blog | | |
| | Borat & the real Kazakhstan | | 2007-06-30 11:44:53 | |
Despite knowing that there’s more to the world than the fluffy-moustached alter-egos of British comics, we seem to get a nervous twitch when we go too long without mentioning Borat or Kazakhstan. So what is the real Kazakhstan like, what’s the link with the former Soviet Union and what’s happening now?
Borat
In November 2005, following Borat’s hosting of the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry voiced its concerns about the character. Spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news conference: “We view Mr Cohen’s behaviour at the MTV Europe Music Awards as utterly unacceptable, being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners which is completely incompatible with the ethics and civilised behaviour of Kazakhstan’s people”, concluding “We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind.”
Kazakhstan
Although there was a brief period of autonomy during the tumultuous per... | | By: Robs Place | | |
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| EUROASIA: Kazakhstan Aims to Increase Oil Production 7.7% Next Year | | 2007-05-24 13:52:00 | | by Nariman GizitdinovKazakhstan, the second-largest oil producer in the former Soviet Union after Russia, aims to increase production of oil and gas condensate by 7.7 percent in 2008 to 70 million tons. By 2009, output is expected to climb to 78 million metric tons, meaning annual growth will accelerate to 11 percent, the government forecast in an economic report published today by state-run Kazakhstanskaya Pravda. The country's $80 billion economy has grown at an average pace of 10 percent a year since 2000 amid high oil and natural- gas prices. The former Soviet republic has 3.3 percent of the world's proven oil reserves and about 2 percent for natural gas. Output of crude oil and gas condensate is expected to remain at about 65 million metric tons (1.31 million barrels a day) this year, Amantai Suyesinov, deputy head of the Energy Ministry's oil department, said in January, without giving a reason for the forecast. The product... | | By: energy BLOG | | |
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