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Kazakhstan ranks 12th in the worldwide list of “most deaths in road accidents per 100,000 inhabitants”, Kyrgyzstan 15th

Kazakhstan’s foreign debt burden (as % of exports of goods and services) is the 20th-highest, after Turkey, and above Brazil. In a list of countries’ foreign debt as a percentage of GDP, Kazakhstan is at number nine (106%). Kazakhstan’s debt service ratio - i.e. debt service as a percentage of the country’s exports - stands at 42%, second only to Brazil (45%).

However, Israeli commentators noted that he had recently begun to express anti-Israeli views in his postings, defending Iran's right to possess defensive nuclear weapons and expressing a degree of admiration for Ahmadinejad's stance against the US.

Derakhshan was aware that his trips to Israel could jeopardise his return to Iran. "Iran doesn't recognise Israel, has no diplomatic relations with it … Too bad, but I don't care. Fortunately, I am a citizen of Canada and I have the right to visit any country I like," he wrote.

Since then I am digging deeper in his idea and concept of sharism and the way he builds his work upon it.

Rebecca McKinnon reports on 27 year-old blogger Zhou Shuguang, aka "Zola," whom the Chinese government have banned from leaving the country as a "potential threat to state security." Snip:

Kai-Fu Lee, co-president for Google Greater China told us there will be no GMail in the
foreseeable future, because Google would be unable to protect user
data from the government.