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All polls
| March 14 2017 | According to your observations, has there been an increase in prices for food products by more than 20-30% since the beginning of the year? |
| March 1 2016 | New Minister of Education and Science proposed to teach math’s and other technical subjects at schools and universities in English (similar to Kazakh-Turkish lyceums programs), otherwise we will be behind the whole world. Do you agree with it? |
| February 23 2016 | In your opinion, is criminal prosecution of Seitkazy Matayev,
the chairman of the Kazakhstan Union of Journalists, the president
of National press club, is a frame-up case? |
| February 9 2016 | Do you remember the surname of the deputy of the regional, city or district maslikhat whom you elected from your election district? |
| February 2 2016 | Nursultan Abishevich announced that he personally checked and was convinced that the prices
of essential food items became even lower compared to the last year's prices. Is the situation in the markets and shops where you go similar? |
| January 26 2016 | Elections to Mazhilis (Parliament’s lower chamber) and Maslikhats (local councils) are scheduled on forthcoming March 20. Will you vote? |
| January 19 2016 | Are you expecting improvements in the economy of Kazakhstan this year? |
| January 12 2016 | Have you got savings of more than 300,000 tenge. If yes in what currency are you keeping them? |
| January 5 2016 | Kazakhstan is up to adopt Patriotism Act. Possibly it’s a coincidence that a similar by name act had been adopted in USA after the 11 September 2001 tragedy which virtually legalized phone-tapping and spying on all Internet users. In any case, are you happy your civil rights being limited in return for safety? |
| December 29 2015 | In general, 63% of the participants of our poll were satisfied with the year 2014. And what about 2015? |
| December 22 2015 | The president of Independent association of businessmen Talgat Akuov suggests to introduce single currency - rouble in 5 EAEU countries (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia) in order not to waste 15-20 years for creation of single currency, as it was in Europe. Would you like such a gift for the new year? |
| December 15 2015 | Do you know the anthem of your republic? Can you sing it in a state language with the same inspiration that is sung by our famous athletes or kindergarten children?
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| December 8 2015 | Is the reduction of staff and working hours or salaries taking place in the organizations where either you or the members of your family work? |
| December 1 2015 | President instructed to remove “Integrated Accumulative Pension Fund” out of National Bank’s control and in 2016 to transfer pension assets to the management of private Kazakhstan or foreign companies.
Is this a correct decision? |
| November 24 2015 | On December 1, the country has a holiday and celebrates the Day
of the First President. Will there be a worthy replacement found for
Nursultan Abishevich? |
| November 17 2015 | It is expected that as of next year the price of ordinary loaf of bread will increase up to 100 tenge. Can your family budget endure that? |
| November 10 2015 | New Chairman of National Bank let tenge “float freely”, in this regard, your forecast of dollar exchange rate for the next few months: |
| November 3 2015 | After two scandalous criminal cases where the son and the father, the Governor of Pavlodar Oblast, are involved, does the latter have moral right to continue to hold his position? |
| October 27 2015 | The head of National Bank admitted that during a short period of time banks received 2 trillion tenge (one of sources is ENPF - Integrated Accumulative Pension Fund) that they bought dollars with. The next trillion tenge from pension fund of Kazakhstan citizens they promise to spend "correctly" – to aid state companies and again banks. Perhaps, it is high time for this government “to retire with a sense of a job well done”? |
| October 20 2015 | President Nazarbayev stated that from lowering prices on oil, metals, coal “A real crisis is coming, much stronger than in 2007-2009”. Could Kazakhstan have avoided that? |
| October 13 2015 | In Kazakhstan they started to release convicted inmates who were condemned for not so serious crimes (theft, robbery, homicide by negligence, etc.) before expiration of their prison term. Conditions for consideration of a case in court are as follows: certificate of good conduct from prison administration, compensation of damage to victims and payment of about 180 thousand tenge into state budget for every year of an early release. Do you support this innovation in the law? |
| October 6 2015 | Maslikhat Deputy of South Kazakhstan Oblast (Region) Amanulla Ramankul proposed to resolve the issue of wedding motorcades with paid traffic police cars’ escort instead of putting under a ban. Are you for it? |
| September 29 2015 | Giving his speech in New York, Nursultan Abishevich proposed to create
supranational world currency and to move UN headquarters from
America to Asia. Will the community of nations accept these and other
initiatives of Kazakhstan? |
| September 22 2015 | Changing the names of the countries in the well-known expression,
the Defense Minister I. Tasmagambetov said: “Russia has neither
permanent allies, nor permanent enemies – and China is just
in the same situation”. Is it true that we are surrounded by "Not quite
a friend, not quite an enemy, but just"? |
| September 15 2015 | Head of state without any discussion in the society gave the second, informal, name to Kazakhstan – Uly Dala Eli (the Country of the Great Steppe). Do you like it? |
| September 8 2015 | President Nazarbayev says people can easily survive without expensive cars, fancy clothes from the West and food. In your opinion, have most of Kazakhstan citizens known, before he mentioned it, that ‘foie gras’ was a fat liver of a goose or a duck? |
| September 1 2015 | Free of charge school books are provided to children from poor families, orphans and those left without parental care. The rest are provided too but if available at school libraries. If not, they buy books at shops. 647M tenge were allocated for books this year in Atyrau Oblast. Did you manage to get free/buy full book set?
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| August 25 2015 | It is expected that during the forthcoming presidential in September to Atyrau, the governor may be substituted. If this happens, who do you think will head the region? |
| August 18 2015 | Is it necessary to hold meetings in your organizations (at the plants, in educational institutions, in the communities) with the groups carrying out information-propaganda activity who do religion related awareness-raising work on the territory of the region? |
| August 11 2015 | Right three years ago – on August 15, 2012 – Baktykozha Izmukhambetov was appointed the governor of Atyrau Oblast. What is your evaluation of the work done during his time in office? |
| August 4 2015 | Nursultan Abishevich called for overall cost saving. Would you also relate these words to expenses for weddings, anniversaries and funeral banquets? |
| July 28 2015 | After years of negotiations president Nazarbayev signed a protocol on accession of Kazakhstan to the World Trade Organization. Officially the country will become the 162nd member of WTO by late 2015. Do you think this is beneficial? |
| July 21 2015 | An Internet campaign has been launched in a bid to cancel a communal services decision to raise tap water tariffs by 50% starting August 1 in Atyrau. Do you think this action will be successful? |
| July 14 2015 | The President does everything that our country became recognized in the world. In this regard could the expenses for hosting such international events in 2017 such as EXPO and Universiade be justified? |
| July 7 2015 | In last year's poll 50% of readers of our website answered that they or someone in their family observes Oraza (fasting). Fasting in Islam this year again fell on the hot period of summer. Do you or your relatives pass through this test of body and spirit? |
| June 30 2015 | Abnormal hot weather remains from the middle of June. According to weather forecasters, air temperature in the city is 42 degrees C at max. Meanwhile household thermometers behind windows show more than 50 degrees C. Do you trust the official weather forecasts?
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| June 23 2015 | In last year's June poll 63% of our website readers answered that they don’t have money for vacations. Have your financial situation improved, are you planning to have vacations this summer and where? |
| June 16 2015 | The more person earns, the more taxes he/she pays to the budget. So, is there a logic in speeches and actions of some Parliament deputies and ministers who try to cancel free textbooks and who already cancelled free school lunches since September 1 of this year for all junior school pupils for the purpose of budget economy and “prevention” of such privileges for children from better-off families?
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| June 9 2015 | Unified National Testing has been closed. Where do your young relatives - graduates plan to study?
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| June 2 2015 | Mesh fencing installed up to the river near the state residence building hinders the Atyraulians to go for evening walks and access from one part of the city to another along the river embankment. The Governor explains that inconvenience was caused due to safety requirements, including the safety of top state officials. Should the authorities seek for compromise solution - for e.g. block the river embankment only during visits of the high guest? |
| May 26 2015 | Do schools collect money from your children to arrange graduation proms and buy presents for teachers? If yes, in what amounts? |
| May 19 2015 | National Security Committee’s task force on May 14 detained Y. Golyshkin, the editor of Pavlodar newspaper "Versiya". On May 16, court sanctioned his arrest for 2 months. It appeared he did his own investigation of rape circumstances that took place in Governor's state residence, where Governor’s son appears as witness. The journalist, famous for his critiques, was arrested on suspicion in blackmailing and extortion of money from Governor. Could it be a special-order revenge of regional administration? |
| May 12 2015 | Do you think that in the administrative police building of Internal Affairs Department they should introduce electronic queue system for the procedures connected with processing of motor transport paperwork?
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| May 5 2015 | Recently Atyrau Oblast won the first place in rating of medicine development, although last year it was on the13th place. Astana was on the 10th place, the Almaty doctors won the "bronze". Experts rated according to indicators of life expectancy, mortality rate from injuries, accidents and poisonings, from road accidents, tuberculosis and blood circulatory system diseases. And in reality did anything drastically change in medicine compared to last year? |
| April 28 2015 | Newly elected president N. Nazarbayev intends "to create a professional non-corrupt government... only those eligible would pass...". Will he be able to achieve this? |
| April 21 2015 | On April 26 early elections of the President of Kazakhstan took place. Who out of three candidates did you vote for? |
| April 14 2015 | According to N. Nazarbayev, the middle class person is the one who "has a sufficient work, a house, a family, a vehicle, and can have a good rest, gives his/her children good education, etc... Such middle class persons should constitute at least 50%, but we have only 25-30% so far". Are you included into this number? |
| April 7 2015 | Early elections of the Kazakhstan President will take place on April 26. Are you or the members of your family intending to take part in vote? |
| March 31 2015 | It’s been several years since the owners of trampolines, attractions, sellers of sweets and soft drinks can't getn official permit to work at city squares and walkways. Does your family need their services? |
| March 24 2015 | Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a common currency for the Eurasian Economic Union. Are you ready to refuse tenge in favour of new currency? |
| March 17 2015 | All complaints of the condemned in ex-governor’s case the regional court appeal board has left without satisfaction. It is possible to appeal against the sentence in several other instances, but is there a hope that it may be changed? |
| March 10 2015 | Kazakhstan businessmen complain that the flow of cheap goods from Russia ruins their businesses, and ask the government to impose a ban on their import or customs duties. Should these measures be applied for protection of domestic producer? |
| March 3 2015 | Campaign for immunization from measles has already laid on a hospital bed over one hundred children throughout the country, including Atyrau. In this connection the immunization was postponed until May 4. If this inoculations are recognized as necessary for the health of our children, will you agree to vaccinate your child? |
| February 24 2015 | Do you support the idea of holding early presidential elections in Kazakhstan? |
| February 17 2015 | President Nazarbayev urged citizens to support domestic producer by buying Kazakhstan-made products only. Will you do that? |
| February 10 2015 | A $1.8bn pipeline contract for Kashagan field without a twinge of conscience
has been given to the same company whose shares belong to Italians and two well-known officials in Astana. Is there a sign of lobbying interests using official positions? |
| February 3 2015 | On January 30, the First Deputy Prime Minister B. Sagintayev announced that for cheap goods from the Russian Federation the border will remain open, and that devaluation of tenge won't happen. Will Kazakhstan economy withstand such competition? |
| January 27 2015 | Medical help (including urgent operations), in case of emergencies, must be provided immediately, in other cases a medical practitioner should put you on a waiting list in hospitalizing portal bureau after completion of required medical tests. Are you happy with such system? |
| January 20 2015 | Kazakh government is debating whether to extend the school program up to 12 years. Do you think children need more school years? |
| January 13 2015 | Do you approve the changes recently entered into the Road traffic rules? |
| January 6 2015 | Will the quality of life of Kazakhstan citizens improve in 2015 after the entry into the EEU (Eurasian Economic Union)? |
| December 29 2014 | As of January 1, we will live in EEU (Eurasian Economic Union). Do you know, at least, one or two basic contract provisions of this union signed by the President and approved by the Parliament? |
| December 23 2014 | On the whole, are you happy with 2014 departing year? |
| December 16 2014 | While celebrating the Independence Day of Kazakhstan how do you see the future of our republic? Will it be: |
| December 9 2014 | ENPF (“Integrated Accumulative Pension Fund”) consolidated in 2014 “inherited” hundreds of billions of default pension fund losses. Do you monitor the movement of money on your account since then?
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| December 2 2014 | Should circulation of dollar, euro and other foreign currencies be limited on the territory of Kazakhstan after it joins EurAsEC on January 1, 2015? |
| November 25 2014 | The weather is cold. Are you happy with the service of Heat and Power Station and heat transfer vendors? |
| November 18 2014 | Among the convicted defendants in the ex-governor’s case
two of his deputies have been sentenced to heavy terms of
imprisonment (15 and 12 years). In your opinion, are the law
enforcement bodies of Kazakhstan really searching their
former boss? |
| November 11 2014 | Experts talk about information security of the country, zombieing of the population by foreign mass media. For example, what TV channels do you and your children mainly watch? |
| November 4 2014 | Some Kazakhstan psychologists believe that you shouldn't send child to the first grade at age 6. Do you agree with this? |
| October 28 2014 | All 22 defendants in the ex-governor Bergei Ryskaliyev’s organized crime case have made their final statements. The verdict is out on November 10. At that the court did not review materials related to the governor himself and other wanted figures. The sounding process lasted as open as possible – Ak Zhaik produced 41 detailed articles about the case available at the website. Do you think the defendants deserve the prison terms – from 8 to 18 years - proposed by prosecutors? |
| October 21 2014 | Doctors saved a worker from Kashagan D island after severe “poisoning with products of combustion of oil products”. Although the patient had every sign of hydrogen sulfide impact, they had no authority and opportunity to issue an exact diagnosis due to absence of a chemical-toxicological laboratory at the regional hospital. Did you ever experience symptoms of poisoning after night emissions from plants located in Atyrau? |
| October 14 2014 | In Ak Zhaik newspaper’s poll conducted in June, 86 % of 1120 people expressed negative attitude towards Winter Olympic Games-2022 to be held in Almaty. Their argument was that the country budget will take a sufficient load from EXPO and winter Universiade-2017. Recently in Internet there was a petition of Almaty citizens, signed by 800 people, who were against the Olympic Games to be held in their city. Thomas Bach, IOC president arrived to Almaty to reassure the pessimists. Is people’s poll necessary? |
| October 7 2014 | Weddings in all the regions of Kazakhstan are held according to the similar scenario (the only unique feature of Atyrau - weddings start 3 hours later than planned). Would you get into debts or take a loan in order “to keep up with the Joneses”? |
| September 30 2014 | This year Atyrau is hosting the 11th Forum of Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum attended by presidents of the two countries. On the occasion, the city has been cleaned up, roads repaired and fuel is available at every gas station. Do you think it will continue this way after the forum ends?
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| September 23 2014 | Have your children visited any theater, museum or art gallery this year? |
| September 16 2014 | The government intends to transfer the functions of the state construction acceptance inspections to independent experts as of July, 2015. Is this a correct decision? |
| September 9 2014 | Despite Education Ministry’s assurance that all schools would be provided with free-of-charge course-books in full, parents still stand long lines in bookstores. How much did you spend on course-books this year? |
| September 2 2014 | A campaign on legalization of property started on September 1 in Kazakhstan. Have you got anything to legalize? |
| August 26 2014 | Do you think the Kazakh language is taught properly in Russian language schools in Kazakhstan? |
| August 19 2014 | The Constitution Day of Kazakhstan – August 30 - falls on Saturday this year. Good that the country will have three days off on the occasion, but did you ever read the document of which adoption we are to celebrate? |
| August 12 2014 | Last week there was just another reorganization of the government in Astana. In your opinion, was it necessary?
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| August 5 2014 | Last week people rushed to buy foreign currencies, but the panic was over nothing. Do you think that until the end of the year the tenge/dollar exchange rate will go beyond 200KZT/USD mark? |
| July 29 2014 | Do you approve the introduction of a single currency on EAEU territory? |
| July 22 2014 | Is it easy to find a well paid job in Atyrau good enough to feed your family and pay for children’s education? |
| July 15 2014 | Some citizens and guests of Atyrau complain that mosquitoes are biting them. Are you personally concerned with this problem? |
| July 8 2014 | This year's fasting in Islam – Oraza falls on the hottest period - from June 28 to July 27. Fasting is a must for everybody including those who don't pray 5 times a day. The main condition is to abstain from food and water from dawn to sunset. Are you personally or anybody in your family is going through this test of body and spirit this year?
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| July 1 2014 | RoK Agency for Religious Affairs is developing a draft law banning the religious organizations to register the relations between men and women according to their canons without a marriage certificate. Is such law necessary? |
| June 24 2014 | Did your family receive at least once free, good-quality medical service? If it did, then where? |
| June 17 2014 | What are your holiday plans for this summer? |
| June 10 2014 | Since 2004, UNT (Unified National Test) replaced final examinations at school and entrance to higher educational institutions, having practically excluded the impact of human factor during knowledge assessment, including any interaction between teachers and graduates, their parents. Should we return to our old system of examination?
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| June 3 2014 | Having counted the forthcoming losses, the Swedish Stockholm and the Polish Krakow have already withdrawn their bids for the Winter Olympic Games-2022. The remaining bidders are Oslo, Lviv, Beijing and Almaty. In 2017 Kazakhstan will host EXPO and the World Student Games. In this regard, isn’t it high time for us to drop out of the game? |
| May 27 2014 | According to their new strategy the Agency for Economic and Corruption-Related Crimes plans to check civil servants in the following way: financial police staff themselves will provoke the officials to take bribes. Does this method look trustworthy to you? |
| May 20 2014 | Land plots have been allocated in Akmola and East Kazakhstan oblasts for agricultural purposes on lease to foreigners for 10 years. But according to the law, individuals residing in Kazakhstan for over 5 years can be granted citizenship. Will saline soil and dry summer season in Atyrau Oblast scare away foreign plant growers? |
| May 13 2014 | In which of the following companies with foreign participation in Atyrau Oblast you think (or heard from friends or relatives) rule bribery, favoritism during hiring process or dubious proposals are made to would-be female employees? |
| May 6 2014 | On the eve of the Victory Day the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation has been supplemented with the article “Nazism rehabilitation” which provides responsibility for denial of the facts established by the sentence of the International military court, distribution of obviously false data on activity of the USSR during World War II. The punishment - from a fine up to imprisonment. Should we introduce similar article into the RoK Criminal Code? |
| April 29 2014 | Erbolat Dossayev, Kazakhstan’s Minister for Economy and Budget Planning, in his interview to Financial Times said that oil production at Kashagan will re-start at the end of 2015 or the beginning of 2016 after 200km of pipelines are replaced. Do you believe in what he said? |
| April 22 2014 | It is expected that in May the presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus will sign the Eurasian Economic Union agreement, that will become fully functional in 2015. The authorities of our country are sure of the benefit of the new organization, unlike the opposition and many experts. Should we join this alliance? |
| April 15 2014 | In 2014-2015 it is planned to carry out the second, in the history of independent Kazakhstan, legalization of the capital by way of their transfer to special bank accounts. With that, the interests will be computed on them. The owners of special accounts will be able to buy securities, bonds, shares and participate in a new wave of privatization of state property. In case they choose to simply cash their money, then 10% of commission fees will be withheld. The main reason for capital amnesty is: |
| April 8 2014 | Putin declared readiness to provide help to former Soviet republics to protect their borders due to risks associated with forthcoming withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan. Can Kazakhstan independently and reliably protect its territory?
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| April 1 2014 | Starting from April 1, the size of basic pension payments and social benefits in Kazakhstan will increase by 12%, as well as salaries of civil servants by 10% due to introduction of a monthly increment to base pay for special working conditions. Will all these increments compensate the February devaluation of tenge and price hikes? |
| March 25 2014 | 15 years ago, on March 24, NATO began its 78-day bombing
of Yugoslavia, bypassing the UN Security Council. More than 2 thousand civilians died, the national economy was almost destroyed. Interethnic conflicts in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were the reason for air aggression. Do you think it was possible to avoid those victims and destructions?
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| March 18 2014 | In Karaganda a few veteran communists held a peaceful meeting in support of forgotten results of March 17, 1991 referendum about preservation of the USSR. If similar vote took place nowadays, would you approve the re-union of former Soviet republics into one country?
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| March 11 2014 | On 19 February, 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Council of
the USSR approved the transfer of Crimea from Russian
Federation to Ukraine. The peninsula authorities appointed a
referendum for March16, 2014, and the citizens have to decide whether
the Autonomous Republic of Crimea should be the part of Russian
Federation or Ukraine. Is it possible to have a similar scenario with
the use of external military forces in any region of Kazakhstan? |
| March 4 2014 | Governor of Atyrau Oblast Baktykozha Izmukhambetov announced that next year the majority of products will be produced by us. By the word “us” he meant: |
| February 25 2014 | Alikhan Smailov, the head of the RoK agency for statistics haven't noticed any substantial price increase after recent tenge devaluation. But according to your observations the prices: |
| February 18 2014 | Right after the protests in Almaty a group of young people in Atyrau organized a protest action against devaluation of tenge and jump in prices. Activists are also intending to file a request with the city Mayor to have another meeting, although, in the past the authorities always refused such requests. What actions should we expect from the local government? |
| February 11 2014 | During his working visit to Atyrau Oblast Nursultan Nazarbayev said about possible change of the country’s name from Kazakhstan into Kazak Eli over the course of time. “But before such change we must discuss it with the public,” - he emphasized. Should we change the name of the country? |
| February 4 2014 | More than 10 lawyers and the defendants they represent, relevant to B. Ryskaliyev's organized criminal group case, repeatedly but without success, put forward submissions about their mistrust to all judges and prosecutors of Atyrau Oblast, requesting to disqualify them and transfer the case to a court in another region. What were they trying to achieve? |
| January 28 2014 | Practically all vehiculary manslaughter related criminal cases end with conciliation of parties. In cases when drivers scorched or were drunk, such “compensation of damage” for the loss of close ones, sparks negative reaction of the public. The changes to the RoK Criminal Code that will allow to stop this practice are in the planning stage. Are these changes necessary? |
| January 21 2014 | By the Presidential decree of 15 January 2014 Aslan Mussin was relieved of his duties of “the Chairman of RoK Accounts Commission for Control over Implementation of the State Budget due to transference to another job”. Is it so that the President offered him a new position that, at least, corresponds to his knowledge and experience as former Governor of two regions, the Minister and Vice Prime Minister, the Chairman of Majilis (Lower Chamber of Parliament) and the Chief of his Government Staff? |
| January 14 2014 | In your opinion, will Kazakhstan’s socio-economic situation improve in 2014? |
| January 7 2014 | Exasperated over bad air in Atyrau, Governor Baktykozha Izmukhambetov recently threatened to close harmful industries. Following this, the head of city’s ecology Erbol Kuanov proposed to relocate all washing stations, oil tank farms and terminals to 15-20km beyond the city boundaries. What is your attitude to these measures given the Chinese intending to boost the ANPZ capacity and the forthcoming construction of a huge petrochemical facility and other productions within Atyrau? |
| December 30 2013 | Every year Yermek celebrates New Year with friends in sauna. Then his friends by mistake put Yermek on a train to Kulsary. In Kulsary he meets a beautiful lady Umit, who lives in apartment block in Oilmens’ Street. Umit is soon getting married to Ilyas and Yermek’s bride Galiya is waiting for him in Atyrau. Do you believe in New Year miracles and what should young couples do? |
| December 24 2013 | Have you sensed an increase of your material well-being, an improvement, on the whole, of your living conditions in 2013? |
| December 17 2013 | Regional authorities plan to build a racecourse near Talkairan Village, in the suburbs of Atyrau. Does it mean the Akimat has sorted every problem and now deserves a triumphant horse ride? |
| December 10 2013 | On December 16-17 our country celebrates an annual holiday - Independence Day. If it be your will, what international organization would you draw Kazakhstan into? |
| December 3 2013 | Recently the diplomats of Russia and Kazakhstan exchanged notes on two absolutely different cases: our frontier guards in the Caspian Sea shot the poacher - border violator and a Kazakh citizen was killed in Moscow. Should Russian and Kazakh foreign policy departments express their concerns publicly and with the use of official documents over each similar incident for more detailed and impartial investigation by law enforcement agencies? |
| November 26 2013 | According to the law “… Kazakhstan positions itself as a democratic, secular state …, guarantees equality of everyone, regardless of his/her religious belief, recognizes the historical role of Hanifah Islam and Orthodox Christianity in development of culture and spiritual life of the people, respects other religions that do not conflict with the spiritual heritage of the people of Kazakhstan... ". To what trend in Islam or other religion do you attribute yourself? |
| November 19 2013 | Polish transportation and water resources minister Slavomir Novak resigned following a scandal after he was seen wearing a $5,000 watch, which he failed to show in a declaration before. On top of that, the ex-official now faces three years in prison. Do you think the Polish experience should be used on Kazakh ministers, governors and deputies? |
| November 12 2013 | Kazakh ministry of culture and information has announced it will no longer buy Turkish and Korean soap opera serials and spend the money on development of domestic TV series and cinema instead.
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| November 5 2013 | After President’s public “flogging”, the Internal Affairs Ministry of Kazakhstan proposed to toughen drivers’ responsibility: from 7 to 20 years of imprisonment for fatal road accident, penalty up to 500 MCI (Minimum Calculation Index) or arrest for a period up to 6 months and disqualification for 2 years for drunken driving, etc. Will these measures help correct the situation on our roads? |
| October 29 2013 | Local authorities in Atyrau are planning to construct 20 elevated crosswalks over busy roads. Design development activities have been started. Is really the structure similar to the one built on Satpaev Avenue a convenient solution for everybody (including disadvantaged people and mothers with prams) and a necessity in our city? |
| October 22 2013 | Vaccination of teenage girls against papilloma was suspended after two schoolgirls in Pavlodar oblast were hospitalized feeling unwell. Media officer of health ministry Daniyar Menilbekov claimed the vaccine has not been banned, but just temporarily suspended. Would you give a written permission for injection to your daughter, when the campaign resumes? |
| October 15 2013 | Despite hot discussions in the parliament, almost every proposal laid down by the government to increase car and estate tax have been approved to various extent. What is that for? |
| October 8 2013 | This year, salaries of province governors, popularly tagged ‘servants of people’, have grown 1.5 fold and now they get 635,000 tenge a month. What merits that’s for? |
| October 1 2013 | Recently, the leader of Azat party Bulat Abilov, a businessman who has been sponsoring opposition activities in Kazakhstan for ten years, announced he is leaving politics to write books and shoot films. At that he promised to return at any convenient moment in future. Do you think he will be waiting long to come back? |
| September 25 2013 | In 2006, upon the initiative of the then deputy of provincial maslikhat (council) and would-be member of parliament Amanzhan Ryskali (brother of the governor at the time), a group of businesspeople built the headquarters for the Atyrau oblast branch of Nur Otan party. A similar step was taken this year by Chairman of Budget Committee and a member of provincial maslikhat Adil Zhubanov. What is this? |
| September 17 2013 | One year after Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov was appointed now, please, evaluate the work his cabinet has done. |
| September 10 2013 | September 8, Kazakhstan celebrated a newly introduced holiday – Family Day. For some people, marriage and family mean different things. What about you, what is more important for you when creating your own family? |
| September 3 2013 | August 31, at a free concert in front of Prime Plaza Mall in Almaty, a popular Kazakh singer Kairat Nurtas, who for $5,000 had to perform 8-10 songs, left the stage barely finishing one, after a few fans breached the fencing and hopped onto the stage. Amid public discontent over the interrupted concert, a group of young men turned the event into a mass disorder. Do you think Kairat was right by leaving the scene as the unrest was heating up? |
| August 27 2013 | Late August, parents are busy preparing kids for school. How much have you spent to get your child ready (in tenge)? |
| August 20 2013 | Start of production at Kashagan has been delayed over a few years and expenditures have exceedingly swollen. As per the product share agreement, the money foreign investors have spent on the project will be reimbursed at the cost of oil over coming decades. Will Kazakh specialists be able to bring under the offshore field on their own, if Kazakhstan’s government follows the example of Russia which in 2004 unilaterally quit PSAs in Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 projects? |
| August 13 2013 | On the 1st anniversary of the changeover in the top regional management – August 15 – we suggest you to recall the history and vote for the best, in your opinion, governor of Atyrau Oblast since 1990. For unbiased evaluation, please consider budgets, epochs (as most of the voters at the website are young) and terms in office. |
| August 6 2013 | Analysts have rated the most trusted second-tier banks in Kazakhstan. The result has shown people still believe in financial institutions. What about you, where do you keep your savings?
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| July 30 2013 | President Nursultan Nazarbayev received the chairman of National Bank Grigoriy Marchenko. Listened to report, the president stated there are no grounds to depreciate tenge. Did this assurance of tenge’s bright future persuade you? |
| July 23 2013 | Lately under-fives frequently fall from open windows in Atyrau. Who do you think is guilty? How this can be avoided? |
| July 16 2013 | Due to toughened employment procedures, migrant laborers in Kazakhstan now work illegally fearing arrest and penalty. As a result good construction crews are harder to find and they charge more day by day. Do we need a new labor migration law then? |
| July 9 2013 | Fatal car crashes on the highways of Atyrau Oblast become increasingly frequent. Which measure do you think is the most effective to reduce the notorious record? |
| July 2 2013 | To the question by a British journalist at a joint press conference with British PM Cameron in Astana, President Nazarbayev said: “On human rights and freedoms I believe Kazakhstan secures fundamental rights. We have open and free elections, three political parties… and opposition… We have no political prosecution here…”
Do you agree with him? |
| June 25 2013 | All 70 alumni of a village school in South Kazakhstan successfully passed ENT, a unified national test for high school graduates. Of them 50 were nominated for the Altyn Belgi [Golden Decoration] Medal, the highest school graduation award, and 29 succeeded. As a whole, only 7 students in the country did 100% at ENT. Three of them finished same school in Atyrau. Do you believe this is a true success? |
| June 18 2013 | June 16, the day the traditional amateur fishing season begins. What do you think will get on the hook today on the Ural? |
| June 12 2013 | President postponed women’s retirement age increase until 2018 – he didn’t sign the new bill, but sent it back to the parliament and government for correction and voiced his thoughts and proposals on TV. What pushed him to take this step and even make a special address to people on the point? |
| June 5 2013 | The first few summer days in Atyrau were marked by a number of accidents killing several kids. Given the three-month school vacation ahead, what will you do to arrange leisure of your child(ren)? |
| May 28 2013 | Life has shown, punishing for prostitution or hushing it up is useless, even in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where fallen women number about 300,000. In most countries, prostitution is legal, regulated by limits and controlled, so not to disturb people. Do we need our parliament to adopt a relevant law? |
| May 21 2013 | Astana is insistently pushing to launch Kashagan, scheduling “first oil” for the Day of Astana and President Nazarbayev’s birthday [July 6], notwithstanding high environmental risks. What do you think is the main reason for such a hurry? |
| May 14 2013 | At a government sitting in Majilis, the lower chamber of Kazakh parliament, Minister of Emergency Vladimir Bozhko stated that on the basis of the existing North Caspian environmental base a naval emergency-rescue unit will be created. Do you think these measures will safeguard the Caspian Sea during drilling at its seabed and further oil production? |
| May 8 2013 | Government forecast says country budget will get nearly half a trillion tenge less this year due to lower prices of metallurgic and mining products that Kazakhstan sells. Economists believe budget deficit will inevitably lead to saving, mostly social cuts. In which sphere, do you think, expenditures should be reduced?
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| April 30 2013 | The peak of spring fishing season is on. Despite sturgeon catching is limited to scientific and reproduction purposes only, this kind is nearing extinction. Poachers are “skimming the last cream” – 1 kilogram of black caviar now costs 200,000 tenge. When did you eat it for the last time? |
| April 23 2013 | Akimat of Atyrau denied a group of women – private entrepreneurs – from holding a sanctioned rally against sharp rise of heating tariffs for small business and of women’s retirement age, citing the four squares specified in the application will not be available due to scheduled cultural and sporting events. Will you come out to a peaceful, but unsanctioned rally in any other place? |
| April 16 2013 | According to laws, damage inflicted by state agencies is compensated from country's budget. Salimzhan Nakpayev, former deputy governor who was illegally convicted and later justified, through court action won a compensation for material and moral damage totaling 10 million tenge. However, now being a deputy governor again and as a political civil servant he refused to receive the money from finance ministry. Who do you think should bear moral, material or any other responsibility for the unlawful acts? |
| April 9 2013 | 68 nations worldwide, including USA, China and Japan, practice capital punishment by means of electric chairs, shooting or hanging, for extremely serious crimes. Recently, our society was shaken by a number of severe raping and killing of minors and teenagers. Do you think Kazakhstan needs capital punishment back after 10 years of moratorium? |
| April 2 2013 | Two years ago – April 3, 2011 – N. Nazarbayev won a four-candidate presidential election in Kazakhstan with 95.55% of votes. Imagine tomorrow is another election and the below are candidates – who would you vote for? (Names placed in random order). |
| March 26 2013 | In many countries, unlike Kazakhstan, there is no vehicle tax. Road maintenance there is covered by excises on fuel and lubs (e.g. 1 or 2 tenge included into 1 liter of gasoline price). At that, justice is observed: if you drive more – you pay more. We still haven’t lifted fines for non-payment of that tax on time. Should MPs representing Atyrau fight to cancel the tax like other countries? |
| March 19 2013 | In springs, fishing firms catch dozens of tons of fish, poachers vandalize the sea and operations in the shelf put fish on brink of extinction. In light of this, amateur fishers pose no threat. Do you think amateur fishing ban should be lifted between April 1 and June 15? |
| March 12 2013 | Parliament is reviewing a draft law proposing lie detector test for police officers in order to check any criminal past and links to criminal world, etc. Do you think the country needs this new method? |
| March 5 2013 | The chief corruption fighter of the country – Senator Oralbai Abdikarimov stated that Nur Otan, a ruling party, intends to advocate inclusion of new norms to laws that will allow supervision over careers of close relatives of high ranking officials. The party of power also intends to create a database of VIP relatives to watch their career development. Do you think these measures will be useful? |
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