Kazakhstan
Kazakh woman may be oldest person by years
March 27, 2009A Kazakh woman who has identification giving her birth year as 1879 may be the oldest person alive -- and 16 years older than the closest contender. Sakhan Dosova's age was listed as 47 in 1926, when Josef Stalin held the first census of the Soviet Union...
Russia in EurAsEc: Imperial Largess from Dwindling Resources?
February 11, 2009by Vladimir Socor The presidents of Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEc) member countries -Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, as well as observer country Armenia- held an extraordinary summit of that organization in Moscow on February...
Russia Preparing to Buy Allies Through Anti-Crisis Assistance
February 11, 2009by Vladimir Socor While facing a financial and economic crisis of its own, Russia has launched an ambitious program of anti-crisis subsidies to several loyalist governments. The program seeks to consolidate a sphere of Russian economic and political...
Kazakh president calls for reform of international organizations
April 20, 2007Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev called on April 19 for significant reform of international organizations and urged them to "adapt to modern realities," RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. Addressing the opening of the sixth annual Eurasian...
Analysis: Moscow pressuring Kazakhstan to frustrate westbound energy transport projects
April 05, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Kazakhstan is apparently facing Russian pressure to stay out of Western-supported energy projects and maximize the transit of Kazakh oil and gas via Russia. In recent days, President Nursultan Nazarbayev...
