How Much For the Country?

25.04.2002

Kazakhstan lately was shaken by a series of controversies linked to sales of state-owned real estate at giveaway prices. Let's forget about the cases based on clear felonies or set up by crooked officials, and concentrate upon a clue that such wasting of state property results merely from elementary ignorance of a true cost of structure. Nowadays it's much easier to buy a spot on the Moon than to find out a true cost of land. 318 

Earning Abroad, Working in Kazakhstan

23.04.2002

Meeting dinosaurs of culture and science, discussions at the National Academy of Sciences, attending large-scale military exercise, firing the minister of transport and communications v these are results-in-brief of the activities by the head of state within the last few days. However, the prime minister stood awake throughout this time, too. On Monday he chaired a session on small business, on Tuesday v a cabinet session, and finally, he paid visits to a couple of oblasts. 428