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KazMunaiGas is getting foreign Vice-Chairman

Kazakhstan News

KazMunaiGas is getting foreign Vice-Chairman

A foreigner is going to be appointed as First Deputy Chairman of the Board of KazMunayGas, Kazakhstan national oil and gas company, tengrinews.kz reports citing the company's press-service. December 30 2013, 09:58 1 472 просмотрs

More Than A Dozen Killed in Blast at Volgograd Train Station

More Than A Dozen Killed in Blast at Volgograd Train Station

More than a dozen people were killed Sunday when a blast ripped through a railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd in what authorities say was an attack carried out by a suicide bomber, ria.ru report December 30 2013, 09:45 2 058 просмотрs

Wedding guest wounded in Kulsary

Wedding guest wounded in Kulsary

On the night of Dec 26, a 21-year-old man was wounded in Kulsary near “Bes Agaiyn” restaurant. December 28 2013, 18:38 3 062 просмотрs

Kazakh dissident Ablyazov's family allowed back in Italy

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Kazakh dissident Ablyazov's family allowed back in Italy

The wife and daughter of a Kazakh dissident have been allowed to return to Rome after being deported in a case that caused a political storm in Italy, bbc reports. December 28 2013, 17:56 1 856 просмотрs

Traffic Policemen Dressed as Santa and Snow Maiden Give Away New Year Gifts to Drivers and Pedestrians

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Traffic Policemen Dressed as Santa and Snow Maiden Give Away New Year Gifts to Drivers and Pedestrians

In the city of Kyzyl-Orda traffic policemen, dressed as Santa and Snow Maiden, greeted drivers and pedestrians and wished them Happy New Year, reports auto.gazeta.kz, citing the press service of Internal Affairs Department of Kyzyl-Orda Oblast on Saturday. December 28 2013, 17:31 1 480 просмотрs

Azerbaijan expresses official protest against Armenia's entrance into Customs Union

Azerbaijan expresses official protest against Armenia's entrance into Customs Union

Azerbaijan expresses an official protest against Armenia's entrance into the Customs Union as long as this country does not withdraw its armed forces from Azerbaijan's occupied territories and as long as Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is not restored, said head of Department of Public and Political Issues of Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan, Ali Hasanov, trend.az reports on Dec. 27. December 28 2013, 17:07 1 801 просмотрs

Retired foreign business experts provide training in Atyrau

Retired foreign business experts provide training in Atyrau

George Vonas, the Canadian of Greek descent, became “the first robin” among the foreign businessmen who decided to share his experience with Atyrau colleagues. December 28 2013, 12:27 2 965 просмотрs

U.S. judge says NSA phone surveillance is lawful

U.S. judge says NSA phone surveillance is lawful

A federal judge ruled that a National Security Agency program that collects records of millions of Americans' phone calls is lawful, calling it a "counter-punch" to terrorism that does not violate Americans' privacy rights, reuters reports. December 28 2013, 11:41 2 639 просмотрs

China formally eases one-child policy

China formally eases one-child policy

China's top legislature has formally adopted a resolution easing the country's one-child policy, the state news agency Xinhua reports, bbc reports. December 28 2013, 11:09 1 119 просмотрs

ArselorMittal Temirtau to cut 2500 jobs in 2014

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ArselorMittal Temirtau to cut 2500 jobs in 2014

ArcelorMittal Temirtau is going to reduce the number of jobs by 2,500 in 2014. Viktor Schetinin, vice-chairman of Zhaktau steel workers union, tengrinews reports. December 28 2013, 10:48 1 717 просмотрs

«KazMunayGas» to appoint foreign top managers

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«KazMunayGas» to appoint foreign top managers

"KazMunayGas'' NationalCompany" JSC (KMG) has finalized the central office reorganization, the press service of the company reports, inform.kz reports. December 27 2013, 18:30 3 019 просмотрs

Akmola land inspection head sued for beating female assistant

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Akmola land inspection head sued for beating female assistant

The Kokshetau Police, an administrative center of Akmola region, are looking into beating allegations against the regional land inspection head, interfax.kz reported. December 27 2013, 17:52 1 400 просмотрs

EU citizenship for sale -- for $880,000

EU citizenship for sale -- for $880,000

The government of the small Mediterranean island of Malta recently announced proposals to start selling citizenship of its nation to foreigners for €650,000 (about $888,000), cnn reports. December 27 2013, 17:50 2 901 просмотрs

Businessman’s house assaulted in Kulsary

Businessman’s house assaulted in Kulsary

On Dec 27, at 11am Zhyloy District Department of Internal Affairs received a message that local businessman’s private house has been assaulted in the central micro-region of Kulsary city. December 27 2013, 17:02 2 160 просмотрs

Las Vegas cabbie finds $300,000 in backseat, returns it to poker player

Las Vegas cabbie finds $300,000 in backseat, returns it to poker player

A Las Vegas cabbie had no second thoughts when he found $300,000 in cash in a brown paper bag in his cab this week, cnn reports. December 27 2013, 11:40 1 120 просмотрs

Environmental damange caused by fuel train explosion and spill near Aktau estimated at $779 thousand

Kazakhstan News

Environmental damange caused by fuel train explosion and spill near Aktau estimated at $779 thousand

Ecologists have estimated the damage caused by the fire and spill at the railway crossing near Aktau city in western Kazakhstan, tengrinews reports citing the Ecology Department of Mangistau Oblast. December 27 2013, 11:07 1 883 просмотрs

China marks muted 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong

China marks muted 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong

The mood at the 120th anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong's birthday is relatively muted, by Chinese standards, cnn reports. December 27 2013, 10:53 2 170 просмотрs

Court approves arrest of Kazakh vice minister of agriculture

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Court approves arrest of Kazakh vice minister of agriculture

The court has approved the arrest of the Kazakh Vice Minister of Agriculture, Muslim Umiryaev, the Kazakh Agency on Fighting Economic and Corruption Crimes said on Dec. 26, according to trend.az. December 26 2013, 19:36 1 383 просмотрs

Almaty subway gets European quality award

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Almaty subway gets European quality award

For the second time this year the Almaty subway receives the highest award of the European Society for Quality Research (ESQR), kazpravda reports, citing city mayor's office press release. December 26 2013, 19:23 1 210 просмотрs

Russian Transport Plane Crashes in Siberia, Crew Dead

Russian Transport Plane Crashes in Siberia, Crew Dead

An Antonov An-12 transport plane crashed on the outskirts of the eastern Siberian city of Irkutsk on Thursday afternoon, Russian officials said, reports azh.kz. December 26 2013, 19:04 1 229 просмотрs

Pentagon builds in Kazakhstan a bio-laboratory that threatens security in Central Asia - Russian expert

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Pentagon builds in Kazakhstan a bio-laboratory that threatens security in Central Asia - Russian expert

The Ministry of Defense of the United States is constructing a biological laboratory in Kazakhstan that is to be located on the perimeter of the Russian territory and potentially threatens the security in Russia and Central Asia, Chairman of the Ural Regional Information and Analytical Center of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies Dmitry Popov expressed such opinion, ca-news.org reports. December 26 2013, 16:20 1 899 просмотрs

Hit by scandal and resignations, Turk PM names new ministers

Hit by scandal and resignations, Turk PM names new ministers

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday after three members quit over a corruption scandal that has posed an unprecedented challenge to his 11-year rule, reuters reports. December 26 2013, 14:55 2 179 просмотрs

Canada hit as winter storm grips eastern Canada and US

Canada hit as winter storm grips eastern Canada and US

A severe ice storm has brought snow and freezing rain to Canada's biggest city, Toronto, and to much of the east of the country, bbc reports. December 26 2013, 14:46 1 340 просмотрs

Kazakh Company started to build “Space Harbour” for tourists in Baikonur

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Kazakh Company started to build “Space Harbour” for tourists in Baikonur

Marat Igaliyev, the chairman of the committee of tourism industry of the RoK Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, had a meeting with Oleg Ostapenko, the Head of Federal Space Agency of Russian Federation in Baikonur space-launch site on December 26, reads the Ministry press service report. December 26 2013, 14:14 1 267 просмотрs

Decision on resumption of production at Kazakhstan’s Kashagan field to be made after January 15

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Decision on resumption of production at Kazakhstan’s Kashagan field to be made after January 15

The decision on resumption of production at Kazakhstan's Kashagan field will be made after January 15, 2014, after the results of an investigation into the cause of leaks is to be revealed, Managing Director of Samruk-Kazyna JSC Malik Salimgereev told journalists at a briefing in Astana on Dec.25, trend.az reports. December 26 2013, 13:50 1 362 просмотрs