Articles by Adil Nurmakov
Born October 17, 1978, Adil is a graduate of the International Relations department of the Almaty State University, holding a Ph.D. in Political Science. He has worked for international organizations in Almaty and Moscow. Since 2007 he has been the director of the Competitiveness Research Center (http://www.rating-kz.info), the Central Asia regional editor for Global Voices Online (http://www.globalvoicesonline.org), and Kazakhstan coordinator for neweurasia. In his many capacities he has been a participant of several international conferences and author of numerous research papers and articles. An active internet enthusiast, in 2007 Adil was named Kazakhstan’s best blogger by MediaNet/Soros and Hivos. Check out his personal blog and projects @ http://adam-kersher.livejournal.com, http://www.alatoday.info, and http://www.moblog.kz.
Last week, the World Economic Forum (WEF) issued annual report on “Global Competitiveness Indexes”. Reminder: on March 1, president Nazarbayev proclaimed “Strategy of Kazakhstan’s entry to 50 most competitive countries of the world”. The report …
On September 27, Kazakhmys PLC, a UK-incorporated company (and a predominant owner of the biggest Kazakh copper producer Kazakhmys Corporation), has distributed a press release on redistribution of shares between main stakeholders. It reads that …
This week was marked by series of perturbations in higher echelons of the government – E. Dosayev, health minister (who actively blamed the regional officials for the infecting children with HIV), as well as “old …
Earlier in September this year, World Bank presented its annual report, rating 175 countries by ease of Doing Business. According to the report, Kazakhstan has gone 20 points up in the rating. Certainly, this fact …
One of the favourite themes of the Kazakh mass media – a bid for chairmanship in the OSCE – was significantly saddened last week. Besides the ongoing scandal with infection of 55 babies with HIV …
The country’s bid to chair in the OSCE and the president’s visit to Washington are the main themes in the “Great PR Attack” of the Kazakhstani officials and news agencies.
For example, on August 8, Agence …
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