Yuri Mizinov is a founder and an editor of Zonakz.net, an online newspaper, previously known as Navigator. Zonakz.net is planning to launch blogs on their site, and Yuri Mizinov agreed to comment on blogs and …

Cross-posted on Global Voices
Kazis Toguzbayev is a Kazakhstani journalist/blogger, who was sued for insulting the honor and the dignity of the president in January 2007 when he uploaded two articles on a group blog KUB.kz. …

This is a translation of Mirsulzhan’s post.
There were only about two or three thousand people on a meeting. The majority came from other cities and did not understand the oppositions’ demands.
One adult man came from …

This is a translation of Mirsulzhan’s post, who is reporting directly from the protests in Bishkek.
The day has come. I am scared, not for myself, but for my country. I hope everything will be all …

This is a translation of Mirsulzhan’s post, who is reporting directly from the protests in Bishkek.
“If Bakiyev does not answer the requirements of the protesters’ demands, there will be unrest in the city…”, said …

Kazakhstan introduced a jury trial in cases where crimes are punished by the death penalty. The trials have already taken place in Eastern and Northern Kazakhstan. The jury consists of eleven people, selected by special …

After his posts on the demolition of old Stalin and Khrushchev houses in Almaty, Adam Kesher continues writing about the changes in the city in his Livejournal (RUS). In his post, he writes about the …

On 21 March, Dr. Igor Tomberg, senior research fellow with the Energy Research Center at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, wrote an article entitled “Moscow is no Longer Kazakhstan’s Only Friend”:
While Europe, …

On March 21 I was happy to present neweurasia (together with Global Voices, see detailed post about the conference on GV) as an example of citizen media site on First Moscow International Conference on Blogs, …

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LJ user aqua_snezhok posted photos of cotton picking in Uzbekistan. The country is one of the five leading exporters of cotton in the world, and cotton is major export production …