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29.11 / 11:21 There are 32 days left in the year
ASTANA. November 29, 2006. KAZINFORM. Today is Wednesday, November 29, the 333rd day of 2006. There are 32 days left in the year.

It's the final countdown.

KARAGANDA. November 28, 2006, KAZINFORM /Valentina Yelizarova/ - Director of Karaganda brewery plant Khakan Aksoy, Turkish by origin, has received Kazakhstan citizenship.

Mad Yurt believes it is the happiest day in Mr Aksoy's life.

ASTANA, Nov 28 (Mad Yurt) – Another Kazakh company has decided to hold an initial public offering, a source said on Tuesday.
“Another Kazakh company has decided to hold an initial public offering, otherwise known as the IPO,” the source told Mad Yurt by telephone from his native town of Ust-Kamenogorsk.
“I bet I will be just one of those eye-pee-ohs!” said the banking source and burst into wild laughter which was heard as far away as Semipalatinsk.
Many Kazakh companies have floated shares in London. The latest company, which is also Kazakh, also plans an IPO.
“It’s just another company,” said the source.

Mad Yurt would like to thank its readership around the world for discovering a terrible mistake in an editorial comment made earlier this year. Mad Yurt would like to remind its clients that it remains committed to truth and accuracy.

Please read in Mad Yurt Top News Digest Item on Jun.22 "...What's a deer with no eyes? No eye deer..." instead of "...What's a deer with no eyes? No eye idea."

A corrected version follows.


top news digest
Jun. 22nd, 2006 | 05:53 pm

IFX-Stocks flat Thursday afternoon
MOSCOW. June 22 (Interfax) - The Russian stock market is flat Thursday afternoon on a shortage of ideas after posting some morning gains.

Joke from Mad Yurt: What's a deer with no eyes?
No eye deer.

LONDON, Nov 34 (Mad Yurt)– The gasoline price fell and then rose on Thursday, shocking traders.

“It fell, then climbed back and ended unchanged,” a trader said. “I am absolutely staggered by this, it’s literally fucking unbelievable.”

Separately, a small disturbance was recorded in the office of a large news agency, where a reporter connected to the gasoline market threw himself out of the window in a last-ditch bid to inject some interest into the day.

He survived and came back up the stairs.

“He fell, then climbed back and ended unchanged,” a trader said. “It’s certainly hard to believe.”

It was not reported if the day got any more interesting after the incident, but it seems unlikely.

Naphtha was untraded over the course of the day.

ASTANA. November 28, 2006. KAZINFORM. This is the 332nd day of the year of 2006. There are 33 days left in the year.

N. Nazarbayev: 15 years of Independence can be compared to 150 years of humankind history
ALMATY. November 25, 2006. KAZINFORM./Daniyar Sikhimbayev/ Kazakhstan is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its Independence this year. These 15 years can be compared to 150 years of calm history of humankind, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said today at a special press conference following the results of a meeting of the Government members with city and oblast akims of Kazakhstan.

Mad Yurt believes heads of state must step down after 150 years in power.

MINSK. November 25, 2006. KAZINFORM. /Yernur Akanbai/ About 30 questions were considered at the regular meeting of the Council of heads of governments of CIS member states on Friday in Minsk. 18 of them were signed without discussions, Tajik PM Akyl Akylov told a press conference following its results. The outcomes of session were highly appreciated, our correspondent reports.

Mad Yurt is investigating the fate of the 12 unsigned questions.

Disabled sports a great resource for nation building
KUALA LUMPUR, November 23, 2006. KAZINFORM. -- The successful promotion of sports for persons with disability can contribute positively towards nation-building as public awareness on these special people increases.


SEMIPALATINSK. November 23, 2006. KAZINFORM /Lina Slavina/ - The current year is full of good round figures for Kazakhstan.

Mad Yurt sees no need for bad square figures.

Unique collection of cold arms stolen in Karaganda
KARAGANDA. November 23, 2006. KAZINFORM /Valentina Yelizarova/ An apartment of a man who obsessively has been gathering the collection of cold arms all his life was robbed yesterday, Karaganda police reports.

ASTANA, Nov 26, 2006 (Mad Yurt) - Water turned solid, cold, white and fell from the sky on Sunday in Kazakhstan's capital Astana as temperatures dropped below -30°C, the local freezing point, Mad Yurt reporters said at the scene.

"This phenomenon might be what we call Snow. Though nobody admits it, it's rather usual here, in the capital of our great and windswept oil-rich nation of 15 million," an unnamed Kazakh opposition weather expert said under condition of anonymity to avoid political repression.

It was not officially clear why water turned solid, as Police declined to comment on the matter, but according to unnamed analysts, it could have been triggered by the harsh climate of the city.

"That cannot be true! Astana is the creation of our beloved leader, therefore it's always sunny, warm and lovely," the head of Astana's weather service Maratbek Aynurov told Mad_Yurt.

"Nothing is ever solid here," he added.

ALMATY, November 26 (Mad Yurt) – A male shopper was spotted in a shopping mall in the Kazakh financial capital Almaty on Sunday, sending shock waves across Central Asia.
Scores of scared-looking people ran through the icy streets of Almaty shouting “He was shopping!”, "I saw!" and “Oh God help us!”
One woman, in her 30s, said: “I saw through a window as he walked into the shopping mall pushing a cart in front of him.”
She burst into tears as she described the scene. "I think he bought eggs," she added.
Kazakhstan is a vast windswept country of 15 million.
Nurbek Khassanov, manager of the Ak-Bolognese shopping mall, said: “I don’t understand this man's motives. We've been in this business for two years now and we have never seen anyone shopping here." He shrugged.
The accident was felt in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan where roofs fell off village houses and cattle went hiding high into the Pamir mountains, and in parts of western China.

BUMAGA, Revolustan (Mad Yurt) _ The leader of Revolustan said Friday that he refuses to "go down the well" despite strong calls for him to be flashed down the toilet.

President Omurbek Pianiyev denied that he stinks and doesn't deserve to be flashed down the well.

"I've done little to prevent the country from turning into a truly rioting nation," Pianiyev told reporters in the capital Bumaga. "I'll join the rioters and also ask my family members to do the same. I will die rioting if need be."

Demonstrations have spread in Revolustan since last year's so-called "Loo-revolution" flushed the country's post-Soviet regime down the toilet.

President Omurbek Pianiyev has since been struggling to prevent the state from regaining stability, saying social unrest was key to his prosperity.

Opposition to Pianiyev said Thursday they didn't exactly know why he should stop ruling Revolustan but that they just wanted to keep rioting not to lose skills.

"He actually doesn't smell as bad as we sometimes do," an opposition leader said. "But we have no choice..."