http://registan.net/index.php/2009/01/18/press-not-dependable/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 20:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://registan.net/index.php/2009/01/18/press-not-dependable/comment-page-1/#comment-379393 Stan Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:34:11 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/01/18/press-not-dependable/#comment-379393 Omg, this is so very sad! What's going to happen to these poor kids, whose - possibly - only light at the end of a tunnel is education? I doubt they will get involved in something good, I am sure the crime will go up, spending will decrease as they will likely go back to live with their parents or depend on them in some way, and it'll make their parents less inclined to spend. Teachers won't be getting as many bribes as well so it'll put extra strain on the students who are still in school and the teachers themselves will tighten belts. It'll ripple through the economy pretty quickly. Just terrible! Omg, this is so very sad! What’s going to happen to these poor kids, whose – possibly – only light at the end of a tunnel is education? I doubt they will get involved in something good, I am sure the crime will go up, spending will decrease as they will likely go back to live with their parents or depend on them in some way, and it’ll make their parents less inclined to spend. Teachers won’t be getting as many bribes as well so it’ll put extra strain on the students who are still in school and the teachers themselves will tighten belts. It’ll ripple through the economy pretty quickly. Just terrible!

]]> http://registan.net/index.php/2009/01/18/press-not-dependable/comment-page-1/#comment-379389 Oldschool Boy Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:53:01 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/01/18/press-not-dependable/#comment-379389 Michael, This information was everywhere. Here is another link from the last week newspaper: http://www.caravan.kz/article/?pid=161&aid=7606 Michael,
This information was everywhere. Here is another link from the last week newspaper:
http://www.caravan.kz/article/?pid=161&aid=7606

]]> http://registan.net/index.php/2009/01/18/press-not-dependable/comment-page-1/#comment-379388 Ekspeditsya Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:29:50 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/01/18/press-not-dependable/#comment-379388 And on a previously discussed subject, <a href="http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=304&NrSection=2&NrArticle=20302" rel="nofollow">this article</a> on the Kazakh PM's foray into blogging, this translated article posted at TOL is highly amusing and very much worth a read. And on a previously discussed subject, this article on the Kazakh PM’s foray into blogging, this translated article posted at TOL is highly amusing and very much worth a read.

]]> http://registan.net/index.php/2009/01/18/press-not-dependable/comment-page-1/#comment-379387 Ekspeditsya Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:10:21 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/01/18/press-not-dependable/#comment-379387 The Russian story is <a href="http://kt.kz/index.php?lang=rus&act=arch&uin=1133168193&chapter=1153473898&n_date=2009-01-14" rel="nofollow">here</a>, just for the record, although it doesn't really have any further details than what you have posted. It is a pretty disturbing story, I think, especially since the government keeps droning on about wanting to engender competitiveness and a highly skilled and educated working base. Thanks for pointing it out. By the way, it is not clear to me what the ownership details are, but I don't believe gazeta.kz and Kazakhstan Today are actually the same thing. Gazeta simply seems to carry KT output, presumably at a cost, as well as generating a little bit of its own original reporting. Either way, they are both pretty tedious and clunky; although in fairness, they do the job. Also, they are not as bad as Kazinform, whose English edition is a marvel of nature that defies received Darwinian wisdom. The Russian story is here, just for the record, although it doesn’t really have any further details than what you have posted.
It is a pretty disturbing story, I think, especially since the government keeps droning on about wanting to engender competitiveness and a highly skilled and educated working base. Thanks for pointing it out.
By the way, it is not clear to me what the ownership details are, but I don’t believe gazeta.kz and Kazakhstan Today are actually the same thing. Gazeta simply seems to carry KT output, presumably at a cost, as well as generating a little bit of its own original reporting. Either way, they are both pretty tedious and clunky; although in fairness, they do the job. Also, they are not as bad as Kazinform, whose English edition is a marvel of nature that defies received Darwinian wisdom.

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