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 25 2013
1093 people polled
June 16, the day the traditional amateur fishing season begins. What do you think will get on the hook today on the Ural?
Pike perch (sudak), asp (zherekh), common carp (sazan), Caspian roach (vobla)
186
20%
Catfish (som), pike (schuka), common bream (lesch)
29
3%
Carassius (karas), small bream (podleschik), fishling (malyok)
134
14%
Old boots and garbage
558
61%
June 18 2013
907 people polled
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?
Mistakes in the draft bill
185
23%
June 12 2013
791 people polled
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)?
Summer camp, sanatorium
58
8%
Will send to grandma’s in the village
85
13%
He/she will attend a sport club, a children’s center, etc.
79
12%
All of our family will enjoy vacation far from the city
98
15%
Have no money. The kid will be planning his/her vacation on his/her own
329
50%
June 5 2013
649 people polled
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 28 2013
995 people polled
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?
Taking care of the budget
29
3%
Distorted information about situation at the project
90
9%
Ambitions and grovel
803
83%
May 21 2013
958 people polled
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 14 2013
667 people polled
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?
Maternity benefits and other allowances
34
5%
Housing thermomodernization
24
3%
National football team
47
7%
Buying foreign cars and office refurbishment
142
21%
Buying cows and bulls from abroad
49
7%
May 8 2013
654 people polled
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 30 2013
817 people polled
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 23 2013
787 people polled
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?
Detective, prosecutor and judge
399
49%
Head of police and chairman of the court
162
19%
Orderer - former governor
122
15%
State should recover damage
90
11%
April 16 2013
811 people polled
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 9 2013
1071 people polled
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).
Nazarbayev Nursultan
124
8%
Tasmagambetov Imangali
1138
76%
Tokayev Kassym-Zhomart
27
1%
Tuyakbai Zharmakhan
33
2%
April 2 2013
1496 people polled
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 26 2013
761 people polled
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 19 2013
595 people polled
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?
Yes. But as an addition to general test.
88
11%
No. Looks like a show on TV and waste of money.
149
19%
I don’t know. Some honest people feel anxious too.
26
3%
Yes. For all officials then. Begin with MPs and akims.
519
66%
March 12 2013
782 people polled
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?
March 5 2013
713 people polled
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