the country’s delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 24 through January 28. Shkolnik will speak at a session on Kazakhstan within WEF, while Kazakhstan’s Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Baktykhozha Izmukhambetov will participate in a session on oil.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev is expected to pay an official visit to German at the end of January. Germany assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union on the first of the year.

Kazakhstan: Reaching for the Future, a 9-minute video documentary prepared by the Embassy of Kazakhstan to the United States, tells the story of what Kazakhstan has become in the 15 years of its independence and of the importance of strategic partnership between Kazakhstan and the U.S. developed in these years. The video is available at YoutubeTuesday, March 22, 2011

Line War Cover

And here's the new Jon Sullivan cover for Line War:

﻿The Polity is under attack from melded AI entity controlling the lethal Jain technology, but the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus’s wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is struggling to control an ability no human being should possess, and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.

Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance. Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology,