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Kazakhstan To Test Drive Predator Drones; Making $1.2 Billion In Weapons Deals

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Kazakhstan To Test Drive Predator Drones; Making $1.2 Billion In Weapons Deals

Kazakhstan is looking seriously at acquiring large American surveillance drones, signing a memorandum of understanding with General Atomics, manufacturer of the Predator line of UAVs. And that's just one of an extensive slate of deals that the country is working out with defense companies around the world, eurasianet.org reports. May 30 2014, 18:34 1 649 просмотрs

Russia, Kazakhstan Extend Oil Supplies Deal Up to 2025

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Russia, Kazakhstan Extend Oil Supplies Deal Up to 2025

Russia and Kazakhstan have extended the intergovernmental agreement on trade and economic cooperation on supplies of crude oil and refined products up to 2025, a Russian deputy energy minister told journalists Friday, ria.ru reports. May 30 2014, 18:28 1 294 просмотрs

More OSCE monitors detained in eastern Ukraine

More OSCE monitors detained in eastern Ukraine

Another team of observers has been detained in eastern Ukraine, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has said. This is in addition to a group that went missing on Monday, dw.de reports. May 30 2014, 17:56 1 166 просмотрs

Ukraine’s President-elect Poroshenko will punish ‘bandits’ who shot down helicopter

Ukraine’s President-elect Poroshenko will punish ‘bandits’ who shot down helicopter

Ukraine’s President-elect Petro Poroshenko has vowed to punish the “bandits” responsible for shooting down an army helicopter on Thursday, euronews reports. May 30 2014, 16:23 1 424 просмотрs

Kazakhstan and Argentina to enjoy visa-free regime

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Kazakhstan and Argentina to enjoy visa-free regime

Kazakhstan and Argentina have signed an agreement on visa-free travel for citizens of the two countries, inform.kz reports. May 30 2014, 15:30 2 264 просмотрs

Kazakhstan to construct $100 million golf club at Borovoe resort

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Kazakhstan to construct $100 million golf club at Borovoe resort

A new golf club worth over $100 million will be constructed at Boroboe resort 250 km from Astana at the coast of Shuchye Lake by 2015, tengrinews reports. May 30 2014, 15:19 7 754 просмотрs

Almaty and Beijing are left as final bidders for 2022 Olympics

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Almaty and Beijing are left as final bidders for 2022 Olympics

Researchers have known for years that hosting large sporting events like the Olympics always costs more than expected and always yields less revenue and useful long-term infrastructure than estimated. Now voters and politicians in democratically elected countries are starting to realize the same thing, businessinsider.com reports. May 30 2014, 12:37 2 615 просмотрs

Ukrainian President Poroshenko Requests Time on EU Deal

Ukrainian President Poroshenko Requests Time on EU Deal

The winner of Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine has told senior European Union leaders he wants some time before committing to a major economic and political deal with the bloc, according to more than a half-dozen officials briefed on conversations, wsj.com reports. May 30 2014, 12:21 2 817 просмотрs

Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus Sign Treaty Creating Economic Union (Video)

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Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus Sign Treaty Creating Economic Union (Video)

The leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus have signed a treaty in Astana on the creation of a Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EES), rferl.org reports May 30 2014, 09:55 2 672 просмотрs

Chechen mercenaries fight alongside separatists in eastern Ukraine?

Chechen mercenaries fight alongside separatists in eastern Ukraine?

It’s no longer about amateurs. There is a full-scale war going on, and it’s fought by professionals. The Russians are here – and they’re making a grab for power in eastern Ukraine, kyivpost.com reports. May 30 2014, 09:25 3 713 просмотрs

Militants shoot down helicopter near Sloviansk, 14 servicemen and Gen. Kulchytsky killed – Turchynov

Militants shoot down helicopter near Sloviansk, 14 servicemen and Gen. Kulchytsky killed – Turchynov

Acting President of Ukraine and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov has said that a Ukrainian helicopter has been shot down near the town of Sloviansk (Donetsk region), interfax.com.ua reports. May 30 2014, 09:09 1 604 просмотрs

Eurasian Economic Union Treaty signed in Astana

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Eurasian Economic Union Treaty signed in Astana

The president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and Russian president Vladimir Putin have signed a treaty establishing the Eurasian Economic Union today, on May 29, tengrinews reports from the event. May 29 2014, 16:57 1 223 просмотрs

Sisi secures crushing win in Egypt presidential vote

Sisi secures crushing win in Egypt presidential vote

Supporters of Egypt’s former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are celebrating what looks like a landslide victory in the country’s presidential electionm euronews reports. May 29 2014, 16:52 1 373 просмотрs

Fancy cars ahead of Putin attending forum

Fancy cars ahead of Putin attending forum

The Atyrau regional government administration is buying 14 executive-class cars ahead of the arrival of the guests to the 11th Forum of interregional cooperation of Kazakhstan and Russia where heads of government are going to participate. For this purpose the regional government allocated 150 million tenge, each car costing $60 000. Last year the regional government bought 62 cars (average price of cars were $26 000 each) for total amount of 250 million tenge. Why do we need so many expensive cars and who is travelling on them? May 29 2014, 15:26 2 263 просмотрs

Poroshenko promises to raise Ukrainian army pay to $83 a day

Poroshenko promises to raise Ukrainian army pay to $83 a day

At an unknown campaign stop before the presidential election, now President-elect Petro Poroshenko promised to make strengthening the Ukrainian army his top priority, kyivpost.com reports. May 29 2014, 13:20 1 398 просмотрs

Today, Astana hosts the meeting of Supreme Eurasian Economic Council

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Today, Astana hosts the meeting of Supreme Eurasian Economic Council

Today, on May 29 Astana will host the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the level of heads of states of the three countries – the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, bnews.kz reports. May 29 2014, 10:15 2 214 просмотрs

Air service to be resumed between Kazakhstan and Mongolia

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Air service to be resumed between Kazakhstan and Mongolia

Air communication between Kazakhstan and Mongolia will be resumed, the press service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications informs. May 29 2014, 10:12 1 381 просмотрs

OECD to examine corruption in Kazakhstan

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OECD to examine corruption in Kazakhstan

Experts from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has arrived to Astana for the third round of monitoring of the Kazakhstan legislation as a part of the Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan, tengrinews reports. May 29 2014, 09:47 2 386 просмотрs

Putin Orders Consideration of Further Energy Cooperation if Kiev Pays Gas Debts

Putin Orders Consideration of Further Energy Cooperation if Kiev Pays Gas Debts

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday to study the possibilities of future energy cooperation with Ukraine if the country repays its gas debts, ria.ru reports. May 29 2014, 09:30 2 427 просмотрs

Kurchatov chosen as the place for future nuclear plant in Kazakhstan

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Kurchatov chosen as the place for future nuclear plant in Kazakhstan

On May 29 Moscow and Astana are expected to sign a memorandum on the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan’s Kurchatov city, azh.kz reports. May 28 2014, 17:13 2 495 просмотрs

I am a real spy, not low-level system administrator - Snowden

I am a real spy, not low-level system administrator - Snowden

Edward Snowden was trained as a professional spy and actually worked undercover abroad for America’s biggest intelligence agencies, developing their IT security architecture, the whistleblower revealed in an exclusive interview to NBC News. May 28 2014, 15:32 1 420 просмотрs

Abkhazia leader forced to flee, denounces coup bid

Abkhazia leader forced to flee, denounces coup bid

Opposition protesters stormed the presidency in Abkhazia overnight in what the leader of the Georgian breakaway region called a coup attempt, Russian news agencies said Wednesday, afp.com reports. May 28 2014, 15:16 1 142 просмотрs

Relatives blame financial police for death of district police chief

Relatives blame financial police for death of district police chief

On May 27, the relatives of Altynbek Kubaydullin, Issatai district police chief, who was detained by financial police and later found dead at construction site, (see “Death of police chief: criminal investigations launched”) held the second press conference in the open air. May 28 2014, 12:14 3 252 просмотрs

Kazakhstan introduces incentives for foreign investors

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Kazakhstan introduces incentives for foreign investors

The bill improving investment climate in Kazakhstan ensures 10-year exemption from some taxes for foreign investors, said Vice Minister of Economy and Budget Planning of Kazakhstan Marat Kussainov, akipress.com reports. May 28 2014, 10:24 2 951 просмотрs

Ukraine's Luhansk People’s Republic to Announce Full Mobilization

Ukraine's Luhansk People’s Republic to Announce Full Mobilization

The self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic will declare a general mobilization of men aged 18 to 45, Head of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) Valery Bolotov said Thursday, ria.ru reports. May 28 2014, 10:01 1 356 просмотрs