Konstantin Lifanov: "For me golf is a way of life"
As we approach 7th international golf tournament "Kazakhstan open - 2011", we had the honor to speak with the Konstantin LIFANOV - Tournament Director, Golf Director of the Golf Club "Nurtau" and one of the founders of the Kazakh golf.
Rakhim KADYROV: "Hope that the insurance industry in Kazakhstan will move to a new level"
Last year, the insurance market has shown considerable growth in spite of pessimistic expectations, and forecasts of some participants and experts. We asked Rakhim KADYROV, Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Insurance Company «Amanat Insurance», to comment on reasons for this growth and development prospects for the near future of the both insurance sector and country's financial system.
Today people live in environment full of threats that may and do affect their health and safety. Apart from natural disasters, industrial accidents and catastrophes, social disruption and human addictions to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, there is another threat that is not less dangerous for people's health and safety. Colourless and odourless, this threat is radiation.
Objective and easy to understand information on threat is a key for its correct perception by people. When talking about radiation it's important to keep in mind that radiation is omnipresent and is a background to human existence since the dawn of civilization. People live in the 'Ocean of Radiation' and have it in them all the time. Today we discuss radiation safety problems with Nadjat NASSYROV, Director of the "Center for Security, Safety and Control" LLP.
Kuat DOMBAI: “Corporate guidelines should be common for both internal and external audiences”
There are people you always find interesting to talk to. Why? Because they are trying to find answers to the most relevant questions. And these answers are based on their knowledge and experience. Kuat DOMBAI, Head of Corporate Communications of the HSBC Bank Kazakhstan and founder of PR-shi Club, is undoubtedly one of them. Following are extracts from our conversation with Mr. Dombai.
Print editions today are dramatically going down in their circulations the same as in advertisement revenues. And business editions belong to the print mediums that suffer the most. The readers and advertisers today are more and more switching to the Internet. Financial crisis even made the situation worsen. In September the oldest Asian economic magazine The Far Eastern Economic Review, published in Hong Kong since 1946, went out of business. BusinessWeek magazine, a respectable edition which is distributed in 140 countries worldwide, was offered for sale in July because of dramatic decline in revenues and readership. And so on, and so on...
Dr. Rafis ABAZOV: “Kazakhstan badly needs highly-skilled professionals including foreigners”
According to the United Nations estimations for 2010, the percentage of international migrants in Kazakhstan will reach 19.5% of the population of the republic. It means that almost each fifth Kazakhstani resident will be a foreign migrant.
This indicator is even higher than in the U.S., the largest migrant receiving country in the world. Estimated 42.8 million migrants in America build 13.5% of the country population. At the same time in comparison with the U.S. and other developed countries Kazakhstan doesn't have clear migration policy. Dr. Rafis ABAZOV thinks that Kazakhstan should adopt Australian and Canadian practice and not to be scared from Chinese migration. Other suggestions from CIS countries migration' researcher are in the interview, taken by Dinara TUSSUPOVA exclusivelyfor BizMedia web-site.
Bakhytzhan Zhumalieva: «Learning others you learn yourself»
Within 10 days - from July, 21 till July, 31st, 2009 in Dushanbe city the training was conducted for Tajik journalists working both in state and independent mass-media. Our twenty colleagues at School of economic journalism studied foundations of economy coverage, both in printing and broadcasting mass-media. Bakhytzhan Zhumalieva, the well-known Kazakhstan' business journalist, one of the School trainers, has shared her impressions about training with the users of the Public Foundation "The Center for Business Journalism "BizMedia" web-site.
Irina Galkina: «The niche we will take, is absolutely free»
A new issue appeared in April on the media market of Kazakhstan: republican information-advertising newspaper «Millionaire» aimed at the mass audience - consumers of goods and different services: financial, telecommunication, educational, medical, rest and entertainments industries etc. As publishers of the new newspaper say, its key mission is to form readers' understanding of a financial world.
The editor-in-chief of «Millionaire» - famous journalist Irina Galkina, who's experience include «Leninskaya smena», «Caravan», «Expert Kazakhstan», and a guidance of the business journal «KIT», thinks that readers' reaction on the first number of her newspaper was very positive.
Marat Zairov: «Crisis can change a usual stereotype»
In the current year during the second wave of a global financial crisis the global changes began in the banking sector of Kazakhstan, which are capable to lead to the appreciable changes on the market of banking services. It was discussed at the meeting of the Media Club of the Public Foundation «The Center for Business Journalism «BizMedia» on March 17th, 2009, in which the Chairman of the Board of JSC «Nurbank» Marat ZAIROV has participated as the speaker. During a meeting Mr. Zairov has answered questions of the BizMedia web-site.
Malik Kushmukhanov: "We're confident that a professional conversation will take place at the conference"
As it was already informed, on April 8th, 2009 Communication Group "Image-Partner" supported by Center for Business Journalism «BizMedia» has initiated conference on a theme: «Anti-crisis PR-technologies - 2009».
We asked Mr. Malik Kushmukhanov, the General Director of the CG "Image-Partner", to answer our questions about essences and content of such important action for the PR-market.
Alexander Novikov: «… Interest to the business information gets mass character»
Number of the Kazakh business mass-media has grown: since February, 2009 the new daily business newspaper "Focus" is being published. High interest to this event is caused by two reasons. First of all, for the first time in Kazakhstan the business edition will be published daily, secondly, "Focus" enters the market in hard times of world crisis.
As the Editor-in-Chief of the daily business newspaper "Focus" Alexander NOVIKOV has noted about it, «..."Focus" started being published in a right time and in a proper place».
"I think there will be a surge in development of business journalism soon"
Academic Sagymbai Kozybaev is considered as one of the founders of Kazakh journalism. For more than 35 years of Kozybaev's work in Kazakh National University, named after Al-Farabi, hundreds of young boys and girls received from him a pass to the professional journalism.
Today we are very honored to introduce in our «Interview» heading the excerpts from our conversation with the Sagymbai Kabashevich Kozybayev, President of the Kazakh Academy of Journalism, which took place during the first days in February, 2009.
