Lost amid the lonesome waste spaces of the Asian steppe, the world's 9th largest country,
Kazakhstan declared itself an independent country on December 16, 1991, the last Soviet republic to do so.
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Its communist-era leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, became the country's new president.
Since independence, Kazakhstan has pursued a balanced foreign policy and worked
to develop its economy, especially its hydrocarbon industry. While the country's
economic outlook is improving, President Nazarbayev maintains
strict control over the country's politics.
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Nevertheless, Kazakhstan's international prestige is building.
It is now considered to be the dominant state in Central Asia. The country is a member of
many international organizations, including the United Nations, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership
Council, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation.
Kazakhstan is one of six post-Soviet states who have implemented an Individual Partnership
Action Plan with NATO. In 2010, Kazakhstan is chairing the Organization for Security and
Co-operation in Europe.
Kazakhstan has 131 nationalities including Kazakh, Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek and Tatar.
It has a population of 16.2 million, of whom around 63% percent are Kazakhs.
Kazakhstan allows freedom of religion, and many different beliefs are represented in the
country. Islam is the religion of about two-thirds of the population, and Christianity the faith
of most of the remainder
en.wikipedia.org...
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This time the regime comes without the trappings of Marxism and is blessed
– or cursed – with the wealth that comes from oil and gas.
But Europe’s powers happily join in the fiction that Kazakhstan is a Western-style democracy,
as they do not wish to offend or destabilise a man who controls a large part of the world’s oil
and gas. GDP of around $U.S 120 billion/year
As usual, corruption and repression go hand in fist. The country languishes at No 105 in
Transparency International’s league table of corruption, alongside Argentina, Algeria,
Moldova and Senegal.
And it stands at No 162 on the Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders.
Any doubts of the leader’s grotesque self-worship fled away when I toured the museum
– once his palace – he has erected to himself in the older part of the city.
Visitors are compelled to wrap their feet in blue plastic bags and walk slowly past ludicrous exhibits.
Here we can see faded pictures of his humble childhood, the living leader’s old school reports
(top grades in all subjects), a painting of him with his father amid the sheep pastures, his gigantic
desk, his ranks of telephones, the robes given to him by the universities that have awarded him
honorary degrees, the President’s own books in many languages, a copy of Jonathan Aitken’s
biography (but not one of Aliyev’s), various gross nick-nacks presented by foreign delegations,
a tennis ball signed by Boris Becker and a dagger (of all things) sent by Alexander Lukashenko,
dictator of Belarus.
Read more:
www.dailymail.co.uk...
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Here's a thread from 2009 , that is worth looking at...
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Since 2000 , many alliances have been made here ...
It seems Kazakhstan is at the crossroads , geographically , politically and demographically .
East meets West ,...Democracy meets Communism
Christian meets Muslim ...
NWO's new capital of the world ..... Astana ?
..... and what about this ???
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The pyramid of Peace ? .... or new alien embassy ?
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... and the President of the World will be ...... ????????
edit on 8-11-2010 by radarloveguy because: ironing bugs