Articles by Ben Paarmann
Born June 16, 1981, Ben is one of the founders of neweurasia. He hails from Berlin, where he and Ollie Dams, neweurasia’s mind behind the website, went to school together. A graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies and Cambridge, he has now found his new home in The Hague, Netherlands. Check out his personal blog @ http://www.paarmann.info/weblog.
Kazakhstan’s financial markets were hit hard by the US subprime crisis. That’s not surprising when one looks at the national banks’ exposure to international credit markets.
Just consider the macroeconomic data: Kazakhstan’s debt service ratio – …
[inspic=42,left,fullscreen,100]This blog relies on Norman Foster’s professional engagement in Kazakhstan. We previously reported about Foster’s contributions in making Astana a true architectural capital of the 21st century: The huge yurt-like tent structure, Khan Shatyry and …
Over at The Registan, Josh leaves Central Asian territory in order to discuss Russian-European energy issues. Which are – in the end – also relevant to the focal region of this blog.
Nordstream, Russia’s ambitious subsea …
The continuous trouble over the delay in the Kashagan development has seen a few new developments over the last week. The 22 October deadline after which talks between the consortium and the Kazakh government about …
Probably also due to my new job*, I have discovered a strange affection for numbers within me. Add on top of that The Pocket World in Figures 2008 which The Economist was kind enough to …
A few people have already mentioned this, but I wanted to add a few thoughts on this as well. The sub-prime lending crisis in the US and its global repercussions hit Kazakhstan’s foreign capital dependent …
Ivar Dale’s articles on Kyrgyzstan have been published on the Kyrgyz page already. Now, Ivar has visited Uzbekistan, and while the following article is also available on the Uzbek blog, we thought such a long …
There’s new talk of a New Great Game unfolding in Central Asia. The thing that made me post on this, to me unfamiliar, terrain of geopolitics was a news report in yesterday’s UK Times. The …
Kiran over Mongolia is a feature-length documentary about a Kazakh eagle hunter in Mongolia. neweurasia asked the filmmaker, Joseph Spaid, a few questions about the film, which is hitting the screen in Kazakhstan at this …
Having just written a comment to my earlier post – I only come to read today’s news now. And there’s a new development to the Kashagan charade: Nurlan Isakov, Kazakhstan’s environment minister said (The Moscow …
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