neweurasia’s English site is taking the Christmas-New Year’s week off. While we’re gone, we invite you to check out our Russian site (www.neweurasia.net/ru/) and our, ahem, seasonal “classical”, “Why Ded Moroz is infinitely more badass than Santa Claus”. ;-)
After Tajik President Emomali Rahmon signed into law a bill “On the responsibility of parents for their children’s upbringing and education” in August, 2011, citizens of the poorest country in Central Asia have mixed feelings …
Uzbek Novosti Uzbekistana (News of Uzbekistan) newspaper has published an article, entitled “Arab Wind Over the Kazakh Steppe” (issue #51 of December 23, 2011).
Author mentions about 15 people killed in riots, as well as emphasizes …
Almost apolitical and owned by a group totaly loyal to President Karimov and his daughter, the most tabloid of all the Uzbek tabloids and most lovable by housewifes and celebrity news followers, Darakchi magazine gives …
Apart from expensive and useless receptions and seminars on human rights theory for high school and university students and older generations, i.e. former Communists who did not know about human rights during Soviet times, the …
Political tensions, trade rules and simple corruption make travel between Central Asian states a complex and unpleasant business.
By Almaz Rysaliev, Askar Aktalov, Inga Sikorskaya, Dina Tokbaeva, Timur Toktonaliev, Lola Olimova - Central Asia
Twenty years after the newly-independent states of Central Asia began marking …
Today’s news about North Korean ruthless dictator Kim Jong-il’s death, who actually died on Saturday, December 17, came along with news about a death of another world-known political figure, Václav Havel.
Both had their own ways …
neweurasia’s Schwartz gives an overview on the situation currently developing in Kazakhstan’s Mangystau Province [updated again on 20/12/2011]. We also invite our Kazakh language readers to visit our official Kazakh blog run by Asqat Yerkimbay @ http://neweurasia.net/kazakhstan
“I found these paintings, rolled up under the beds of old widows, buried in family trash.
These were forbidden works by artists who stayed true to their vision, at a terrible cost.”
– “The Desert of Forbidden …
The story of the life of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is for sale in Kazakhstan.
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, is Amazon’s top grossing book of the year – in both “print and Kindle editions …
RSS Feeds
Podcasts
This work by Neweurasia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.neweurasia.net/contact/.
Recent Comments