{"id":405982,"date":"2010-03-09T00:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=126164"},"modified":"2010-03-09T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:08:25","slug":"kazakhstan-politics-ethnic-balance-and-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/405982","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan: Politics, ethnic balance and opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloggers in Kazakhstan continue to discuss issues centered around governance and political stability. <a href=\"http:\/\/izhanov.livejournal.com\/120361.html\">Izhanov thinks<\/a> there is a potential problem brewing in Kazkahstan&#39;s ethnic demographics [ru]:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The last census showed two major trends of the past decade: there are now much more Kazakhs (+26 per cent) and sufficiently less Russians (-15 per cent). The first trend is good, while the second is bad &#8230; The growth of Kazakh population should not oppose the number of Russians in the country. Unfortunately, there are voices that put a question this way&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/megakhuimyak.livejournal.com\/792104.html\">Megakhuimyak comments<\/a> on access (or, rather, absence of access) of the political opposition to the mass media [ru]: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Opposition is effectively blocked out of the most part of media, especially television. However, [it&#39;s strange that they don&#39;t use alternatives] none of the opposition parties uses Internet. Some of them don&#39;t have websites, others don&#39;t update them often. Meanwhile, there is 1.2 million users of broadband Internet in Kazakhstan already [the country&#39;s population is about 15 million].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The past couple of weeks were marked in the region by the birthdays of two ladies &#8211; Aliya, the daughter of Kazakh president Nazarbayev, and Gulnara, the daughter of Uzbek leader Karimov. The first <a href=\"http:\/\/foro.univision.com\/univision\/board\/message?board.id=elgordoyflaca&#038;message.id=621346\">invited<\/a> Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez to the party, the second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzblog.net\/2010\/02\/27\/sting-gets-no-slack\/\">chose<\/a> Sting. <a href=\"http:\/\/zadumka.livejournal.com\/100596.html\">Zadumka opinionates<\/a> [ru]:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Uzbek daughter defenitely has a better taste&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The persistent gap between the rich and the poor, harshly aggravated by the global financial crisis, worries local political observer <a href=\"http:\/\/epolet.livejournal.com\/169947.html\">epolet<\/a> [ru]:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The way they carry out their political practices in 2010 provokes fear in the society. I feel it in the people&#39;s moods. I hope it won&#39;t lead to some bloody final.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gaisa.livejournal.com\/108609.html\">Gaisa is alarmed<\/a> by a new round of the government&#39;s good intentions [ru]: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Prime-minister ordered to reduce pressure on the business. According to our experience, the fight for reduction of pressure increases the pressure twice&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloggers in Kazakhstan continue to discuss issues centered around governance and political stability. Izhanov thinks there is a potential problem brewing in Kazkahstan&#39;s ethnic demographics [ru]: The last census showed two major trends of the past decade: there are now much more Kazakhs (+26 per cent) and sufficiently less Russians (-15 per cent). The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}