All news

World News

Moscow police arrest 675 more migrants

Large-scale arrests of migrants following recent clashes between the police and an angry mob of nationalists showed no sign of nearing an end in Russia at the weekend as police announced the detention of nearly 700 migrants in the Moscow Region October 25 2013, 10:05 1 376 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Closure of Eurasian Economic Community must be gradual – Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced support Thursday for his Kazakh counterpart’s proposal to dissolve the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC), but said such a move should be gradual and well thought over. October 25 2013, 10:03 1 229 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

President Nazarbayev in favor of Turkey and Syria as Customs Union member states

Addressing the session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the level of the heads of state in Minsk on Thursday, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said other countries should join the Customs Union. October 25 2013, 09:54 2 184 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakh president warns of consumer lending "bomb"

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev warned on October 11 that consumer lending is posing a new threat to the country's banking sector, describing rising retail borrowing as a "bomb". October 25 2013, 09:44 1 293 просмотрs

Culture

An Italian Made Music Clip in Atyrau (+video)

We wrote about Toni Turi ("Neapolitan song ambassador in Atyrau"), an Italian engineer, who is continuing to conquer the Atyrau audience. This time he recorded his first music clip by performing a new song "Amo te" (I love you), which he composed together with the Italian musician and composer Augusto Amicucci. October 24 2013, 16:50 4 467 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Ban Ki-moon thanks Tokayev for work in UN

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon thanked Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan’s Senate Speaker, for his fruitful work as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva October 24 2013, 17:11 1 258 просмотрs

World News

Did the US tap Angela Merkel's phone?

The US denies reports the National Security Agency monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. But even if the suspicion proves false, she now seems likely to take the issue more seriously than before. October 24 2013, 17:00 1 296 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

UFO spotted over Almaty

Two young men have managed to make a video of an unidentified flying object that looks amazingly like a classical UFO from American movies hovering over Almaty October 24 2013, 16:30 1 462 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Relatives identify purported Kazakh 'Jihadist' in video

Family members say they have identified one of the men in a recent video of purported Kazakh jihadists preparing to wage war in Syria and are asking authorities to help bring him home. October 24 2013, 16:09 1 765 просмотрs

World News

Azerbaijan's SOCAR extinguishes well at Bulla Deniz offshore field

The Azerbaijani State Oil Company (SOCAR) has extinguished the fire in the emergency well at the Bulla Deniz offshore field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, a source at the oil and gas market told Trend on Thursday. October 24 2013, 15:32 1 616 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Heavy truck crushes bus at Karachaganak field injuring 18

There has been a car accident at the territory of Karachaganak gas condensate field in Kazakhsta October 24 2013, 14:38 1 289 просмотрs

World News

Ecuador's Worn-Out War on Chevron

Ecuador’s long-running spat with U.S. oil company Chevron Corp. over a polluted swath of Amazon jungle is the type of David-and-Goliath story President Rafael Correa uses to define his mandate. October 24 2013, 14:35 2 062 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan's Kashagan field needs some weeks to resume output

A consortium developing Kazakhstan's giant Kashagan oilfield said on Thursday it needs a few weeks to resume production cut by an industrial accident on Oct. 9, which means commercial output will not go ahead this month as planned. October 24 2013, 12:37 3 058 просмотрs

Other News

Tajik-Afghan border veterans want status similar to WWII soldiers

Participants of battles at the Tajik-Afghan border request the country president to equalize their status to the Great Patriotic War veterans October 24 2013, 11:34 9 089 просмотрs

Other News

Assel - lifeguard in skirt

Prior to the Day of Rescuer, Atyrau citizen Assel Zulpibekova was given the reward of valour. October 24 2013, 11:11 8 848 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Robbed Temirbank pictures unveiled

Temirbank branch cashiers discovered the loss of over 37 million tenge after they returned to the office from lunch October 24 2013, 11:00 1 210 просмотрs

World News

Russia criticizes results of London diplomatic meeting on Syria

A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Wednesday that a meeting of 11 nations on resolving the Syrian conflict resulted in a call for regime change, a challenge that upsets plans for a peace conference in Geneva. October 24 2013, 10:53 1 001 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Unregistered religious unions to vanish by year end in Kazakhstan

All unregistered religious unions are going to be liquidated in Kazakhstan by the end of this year October 24 2013, 10:40 1 341 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

49 Australian cows suffocate during flight to Almaty

49 Australian cows have died during import from Australia to Kazakhstan. They suffocated in the airplane October 23 2013, 17:46 2 435 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Samruk Kazyna to lay off thousands of administrative personnel

Over 2000 administrative employees of companies within the Samruk-Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund will be laid off in 2013 October 23 2013, 17:29 1 258 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhs blocking India-Russia free trade pact

Kazakhstan is playing spoilsport in India’s plans of forging a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with Russia. In its efforts to diversify export markets beyond the US and the EU, given the on going economic crisis in these markets, India has identified Russia as a key country for intensifying its trade engagement October 23 2013, 17:15 1 476 просмотрs

World News

Filing ties slain Boston Marathon Bombing suspect to 2011 case

A government court filing links the deceased suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, to a triple murder in Waltham, Mass., in September 2011, attributing the information to his now-dead friend. October 23 2013, 16:53 1 277 просмотрs

World News

Iran: man survives hanging, 'no need' for second execution attempt, minister says

"No need for re-execution" of man convicted of drug smuggling local news agency reports Iranian justice minister as ruling October 23 2013, 15:38 1 562 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Almaty saw bank heist in the middle of the day

One of Almaty bank was robbed yesterday, on October 22 October 23 2013, 15:06 1 401 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Woman beaten for photo of Nazarbayev billboard on ground

A village head, 49, beat up a woman after she photographed a billboard with Nazarbayev's picture fallen on the ground. October 23 2013, 14:15 1 806 просмотрs