President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has announced a package of social reforms, unprecedented in scope and content. Mortgage at 7 percent, as in developed countries, reduced income tax, a record number of grants for university education, increased microcredit and not directly related to the social sphere, gasification, which is designed to improve the state of […]
Совет БЕЗ опасности. Как Казахстан примирил членов СБ ООН
В Совете Безопасности ООН прошла очередная ротация председательства. Казахстан после месяца во главе ключевого органа самой главной международной организации планеты уступил место Кувейту. Уступил, надо думать, с чувством выполненного долга. За месяц председательства Казахстан сделал на этом посту больше, чем удавалось некоторым членам СБ за годы. Январь 2018 года останется в истории как один из […]
UN Security Council – How Kazakhstan reconciled the Security Council members
Kazakhstan, after a month as the chair of the UN Security Council, has passed the baton to Kuwait. This is the time to pause and ponder. — During the one month of chairmanship in January 2018, Kazakhstan managed to accomplish more than what some members of the Security Council achieved over the years. January 2018 […]
Central Asia: Shared Water Resources
This question is regularly asked around the world: Some experts believe that without introducing purely economic and trade relations to the use and distribution of water resources, in particular, it is a question of transboundary rivers, it is difficult to manage, given the specifics of interstate relations and the priority of national interests in such […]
Центральная Азия: общие водные ресурсы
Этим вопросом регулярно задаются во всем мире. Некоторые эксперты полагают, что без привнесения чисто экономических, торговых отношений в область использования и распределения водных ресурсов, речь идет, в частности, о трансграничных реках, обойтись сложно, учитывая специфику межгосударственных связей и приоритет национальных интересов в столь непростом вопросе. У каждой из стран имеются очевидные мотивы для забора и […]
Central Asia – Caucasus: 2018 – The Year of Opportunity for France
Gilles Remy, CEO of CIFAL Group, Vice-President of the Eurasian Commission of Foreign Trade Advisers, Chairman of the French-Turkmen Chamber of Commerce Ashgabat, the 5th Asian Games in closed premises and in martial arts, September 2017. 2017 was a year of economic recovery for Central Asia and Caucasus. Following a sluggish phase, growth has resumed, […]
Beware Central Asia – Social media is already a deadly battlefield, with no rules of war
nCa Commentary “It’s an odd world we live in—one where people view the world through a mobile device, a lens that has created a new landscape where official news, news stations, newspapers, and the like, have been replaced by instantaneous information free from vetting, researching, and journalistic standards that were once the foundation of our […]
President of Kazakhstan presents 10-point formula for modernization, development
President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, in his address published on 10 January 2018, has given the roadmap for ‘successful navigation and adaptation’ through the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution.’ The new technological structure, which is increasingly taking over the world, fundamentally changes people’s habitual life, President Nazarbayev writes. At the same time, he notes the decline of […]
Президент Казахстана представил 10-балльную формулу для модернизации, развития
Что предстоит сделать Казахстану, чтобы достичь «успешной навигации и адаптации» в мире Четвертой промышленной революции? Ответ на этот вопрос дан в очередном Послании Главы республики Нурсултана Назарбаева, опубликованном в СМИ 10 января текущего года. Новый технологический уклад, все больше завладевающий миром, кардинально меняет привычную жизнь людей, пишет Президент Назарбаев. При этом, он отмечает закат эпохи […]
Kazakhstan – Highlighting Central Asia on World Stage
Kazakhstan has always followed a balanced policy that highlights the Central Asian region in a positive light on the world stage. An ongoing tenure and a recently concluded event are the case in point. — President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan met President Trump of USA on 16 January 2018, and Kazakhstan is the current chair of […]