Kazakhstan took a very important step towards political reform last week after approving constitutional amendments laid out by an absolute majority in a referendum.

This can be seen as a very progressive response to the widespread unrest of last January that gripped the oil-rich country and escalated into anti-government demonstrations in the country’s largest city of Almaty and resulted in the Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to dismiss his government and declared a state of emergency in response.

This is a progressive approach to countering domestic crisis in the current atmosphere as many other countries use the Ukrainian crisis to trigger a state of emergency and lock down governance and control.

Quando si parla di disastri nucleari viene subito in mente quello del 1986 alla centrale di Chernobyl... questo perché se ne è parlato moltissimo. Ma quanti sono gli episodi analoghi avvenuti senza che vi sia stata notizia? Stando ad un dossier pubblicato sulla rivista New Scientist, elaborato dall'Istituto di biofisica moscovita, nel 1956 ben 600 persone furono ricoverate in ospedale a seguito degli effetti dovuti all'elevato numero di test nucleari condotti nel poligono di Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.

Thank art. 41 (paragraph 1-3) of the Constitution of Kazakhstan introduced an amendment in February 2011, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has called an early presidential election to be held on April 26.

Officially it was desired to inspire the coming electoral competition with the need to overcome the current economic crisis and the dangerous Russian nationalism, in fact, the real reason is to reprogram a definite political continuity for senior Kazakh leader, in the logic of having a strong man in command to meet the new threats looming in this 2015, without waiting for the natural expiration of the legislature in 2016.

Everything goes through the tubes of the South Stream gas pipeline. In Italian "flusso meridionale".

If someone thought that senior officials of the Ministry of the Interior, sacrificed to political stability, have acted lightly, you are wrong, the first concern of the government was, and is, not weaken the Italian presence in Astana.

As usual it was desired to mask a coordinated intelligence operation with a simple mistake of the Interior Ministry.