Articles by Askhat Yerkimbay
Born April 19, 1983, Askhat is a freelancer journalist with a passion for economic policy, New Media, and Kazakh blogging. He coordinates all Kazakh language content on the network. He holds a degree from the Abay Kazakh National Pedagogical University in philology. Check out his personal blog @ http://urimtal.wordpress.com.
As Chinese-Kazakh relations increase, China’s evidence on Kazakh society is becoming more and more visible on the Kazakh blogosphere, reports neweurasia’s Kazakh bridge-blogger Askhat in this round-up of selections from the Kaznet. Is this China’s “weaponless invasion” into Central Asia?
Translated by Sagym (KAZ)
Lately I have often seen posts about national problems in Kazakh language blogs. I am going to review some of them.
Ainash Esali in a post titled “The government should have only one …
The WordPress blog platform, which services most of the Kaznet, is inaccessible in several Almaty offices. This blockade has been the result of internal rules and electronic filters. Since it began, several Kazakh …
The Kazakh Internet regulation amendments which were sent to the Parliament last week have woken up the Kazakh language bloggers’ activism. A lot of posts in Kazakh language tried to analyze the influence of the …
In the beginning of January 2009, one of the YouTube user’s Shymkali posted a short clip from Kazakh Aitys, a song competition which is held between two aqyns [bards].
Each usually strums a national instrument and …
The world’s oldest person was discovered during the census in Karaganda. Her name is Sahan Dosova and she is 130!
[inspic=151,,fullscreen,450,:500] Mrs. Dosova celebrated her birthday on March 27th. “I don’t have any special secret” she …
Kuala Lampur is one of several cities around the world that will be practicing “Earth Hour” by turning off their lights for one hour. “Earth Hour” is a symbolic action to protest against global warming, …
Last month my cousin visited his relatives who live in a village near Balkhash. He told me that many residents of this village fish in the winter:
Fishing in the winter is easier than in summer. …
I was shocked to read this quote from Ansar’s blog [kaz]:
“Kazakhstan’s external debt nowadays is 105,5 billion dollars. Oh my god, what the hell?! According to these statistics, Kazakhstan has more debt than ten CIS …
Translation of the post by Askhat on the Kazakh-language neweurasia.
Recently, I left this comment on the blog of Akylbek Kurishbayev, the Kazakhstan’s Minister of Agriculture:
“As a journalist, whose focus in agriculture, I would like to …
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