Comment of the Day

07.11.2017

“October” Revolution: have its roots completely disappeared?

Unlike Russia and Belarus, Kazakhstan stopped the traditional pompous parades on the occasion of the October Revolution on November 7 (the discrepancy is explained by the difference between the Julian and the Gregorian calendar used at the time in orthodox and catholic/protestant states) not very long after the break-up of...

Unlike Russia and Belarus, Kazakhstan stopped the traditional pompous parades on the occasion of the October Revolution on November 7 (the discrepancy is explained by the difference between the Julian and the Gregorian calendar used at the time in orthodox and catholic/protestant states) not very long after the break-up of...

06.11.2017

Al-Farabi’s social and economic groundwork and its validity for Kazakhstan today

Philosophy and economy are heavily intertwined and both of them are sources rather than products of any civilisation. This is why England is proud of Smith, Byron and Keynes, Germany of Leibnitz and Kant, France of Descartes and Montesquieu, The Netherlands of Erasmus and Grotius, Greece of Plato and Aristoteles,...

Philosophy and economy are heavily intertwined and both of them are sources rather than products of any civilisation. This is why England is proud of Smith, Byron and Keynes, Germany of Leibnitz and Kant, France of Descartes and Montesquieu, The Netherlands of Erasmus and Grotius, Greece of Plato and Aristoteles,...

25.09.2017

EXCLUSIVE: Market matters, markets matter: is the world ignoring Kazakhstan or is Kazakhstan ignoring the world?

From the dawning of Mankind, people have been looking to use anything that appears on the ground, and soon under the ground as well, to their advantage. Taming animals to work for them (and eventually eaten by them), growing crops, hewing and digging for minerals, anything produced by nature has...

From the dawning of Mankind, people have been looking to use anything that appears on the ground, and soon under the ground as well, to their advantage. Taming animals to work for them (and eventually eaten by them), growing crops, hewing and digging for minerals, anything produced by nature has...