Posted by Adil Nurmakov to Global Voices Online Astana has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since the national government moved from Almaty, the country’s largest city, ten years ago. It is believed to be a pet city for the president of Kazakhstan, who is often called in the pro-governmental media (which heavily dominate on […]
Living with a Cult Leader
The main discussion this week in Kazakhstani blogosphere was caused by the suggestion that was voiced by a number of MPs to rename the capital city Astana to Nursultan, in the honor of the long-ruling president Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been in power for more than eighteen years so far. Nursultan already moved the capital from Almaty to Akmola […]
Kazakhstanis Weary of Plan to Rename Capital After PM
Posted by Adil Nurmakov for Global Voices Online The main discussion this week in Kazakhstani blogosphere was caused by the suggestion that was voiced by a number of MPs to rename the capital city Astana to Nursultan, in the honor of the long-ruling president Nursultan Nazarbayev, who retains power for more than 18 years already. […]
Media Ownership and Control in the Philippines Takes a New Form
Each year in the Philippines, where the digital divide is still an unresolved issue, it is more likely that citizens who turn to any medium will receive information, ideas, or entertainment controlled by the same handful of corporations. As Sheila Coronel, of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism noted in her article on media ownership and control in […]
Brazil and Orkut: Made for Each Other?
by Daniel Duende Orkut, Google’s experiment onSocial Networking Services, is extremely popular in Brazil. More than 53% of Orkut users is Brazilian — even more, if you take into account Brazilian’s profiles that don’t show their country information and profiles by Brazilians living abroad — and more than 70% percent of Brazil’s Internet users are actually profiled and […]
OPEC controls world economy
Would you believe that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) controls the world’s economy? And that nobody, even the technologically advanced nations like the United States, can impose its will on these oil-producing countries. A case in point is Venezuela, an OPEC member and one of the biggest oil producers in South America. In […]