Comments on: At the Center of Kazakhstan’s ‘Ugly Trade’

By: KZBlog

KZBlog — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:44:03 +0000

Jamie: News wires are actually publishing large chunks of the speech so if you feel Registan.net won’t fly as an authoritative source to your prof. for some reason, if you dig around you can get the quote you need from someone else.

Nothing against registan.net of course

By: Steve LeVine

Steve LeVine — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:20:30 +0000

Hi Josh, I agree that the test, as you suggest, is not these interminable vows of reform, but demonstrated commitment to the OSCE charter. Call it the Ukraine test. Or the Georgia test. In both of these former Soviet countries, the presidents actually have a chance of losing in an election (in Ukraine one has — Kravchuk — and most recently in Georgia, Saakashvili has resigned to run in a snap election in January).

Let’s see Nazarbayev run in a bona fide election. Until then, why not invite Ukraine or Georgia to lead the OSCE? Best Steve

Steve LeVine, author
The Oil and the Glory
http://www.oilandglory.com

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:24:08 +0000

Jamie, I’ll leave to Josh whether or not to mention where he got this speech in particular, but the text of these speeches get sent around pretty regularly at the behest of the embassies. They rarely get published though. Sometimes pr wire services will carry them — the Uzbek Embassy in Germany gets them distributed in that way fairly often, for example.

I’d go ahead and just cite Registan.net as the source. I did that all the time on academic papers, and even blog-hating professors didn’t bat an eye (even when I cited myself…).

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:35:45 +0000

Hello Joshua. I’m presently writing a paper on this very issue. Where did you find this speech? I want to use it and can’t find it anywhere. Thanks!