March 11, 2009
Elina Galperin says that the economy of Kazakhstan has been hit hard hard by the worldwide drop in demand for energy supplies, and the government is increasingly worried about protests here....
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Bloggers of Kazakhstan continue to follow closely the situation in the country and the government's attempts to switch on a “manual control� mode in economy and other spheres of social life. Dass is citing [ru] the Minister of Labor, who declared at the governmental meeting that around 900,0...
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March 07, 2009
Greetings, gentle Registanis. I spotted a couple interesting stories with similar themes. The theme might best be titled, to borrow from the Daily Show, Clusterf@#$ to the Poor House [Central Asian Edition] More after the jump. Bailouts Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbaev increased the grow...
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michaelhancock
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March 03, 2009
And let me get this out of the way: we didn't talk about Borat. I didn't ask him if anyone had ever jokingly threatened to throw the Jew down the well. He didn't show me a picture of his pet chicken. To have gone into any of this, even as a joke would have been incredibly disrespectful, not to menti...
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March 02, 2009
After the jump you’ll find the entirety of my Balkhash paper, as presented at the 16th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference in Bloomington, Indiana at Indiana University. It was my first conference, but I doubt it will be my last. The next paper I’m working on is also post-Soviet f...
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michaelhancock
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February 14, 2009
Director : Larry Charles Release Date : 3 November 2006 (USA) Genre : Comedy Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev, Ken Davitian as Azamat Bagatov, Luenell as Luenell Plot : Kazakh TV conversing set Borat is dispatched to the United States to results on the most emine...
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January 28, 2009
Our story so far: PETA produced a Super Bowl ad that featured scantily-clad women doing naughty things with vegetables. Somehow, Sean Salisbury and Whoopi Goldberg got involved. Then things got weird ... Knowing darned well that their ad would never see the light of a flat-screen TV, PETA pretended ...
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Rick Chandler
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January 12, 2009
Tajikistan in the News - and news is rarely congratulatory or happy. Happy Old New Year to all the slavs - make it count! Russian/Tajik relations turn colder over media relations Energy Price Hikes Rumors of Earthquake send thousands outdoors to sleep Cotton cultivation to be down in 2009 Tajikist...
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Michael Hancock
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Of course it is no wonder to see more and more countries adopting various social media tools now that it is a proven fact that they can be more than efficient in talking to the connected population of a country - with Barack Obama heavily relying on internet and various social media tools in the pre...
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Svetlana Gladkova
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January 10, 2009
Greetings all. I’m unabashedly a blogger, and a fan of the blogosphere. This is not to say that I’m ignorant of the many flaws this form of writing, something I’ll describe best with a string of hyphens: academia-cum-journalism-cum-rhetoric-cum-diatribe. I think one of the ar...
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