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Kazakhstan tightens commercial air traffic rules

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Kazakhstan tightens commercial air traffic rules

Kazakhstan has tightened its rules for domestic commercial air traffic, the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the country said. March 11 2013, 10:23 1 304 просмотрs

Falklands holds vote over UK status

Falklands holds vote over UK status

The population of the Falkland Islands is going to the polls on Sunday and Monday in a referendum on whether to remain a British Overseas Territory. March 11 2013, 10:15 1 730 просмотрs

97% of Atyrau residents speak fluent Kazakh

97% of Atyrau residents speak fluent Kazakh

97% of Atyrau residents speak Kazakh fluently; 92% and 6.7% are proficient in Russian and English respectively, says Kairat Tarbayev, a press secretary of the regional administration. March 11 2013, 10:04 1 898 просмотрs

Public utilities rate increase will teach people to save – Nur Otan official

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Public utilities rate increase will teach people to save – Nur Otan official

If rates increase, one will start saving water, and maybe will pay less. And what we are doing today? We pour tap water and waste paper – our trees and water reserves. We are not saving our children’s heritage, of our future generations. We need to explain this as well, said Baurzhan Baibek, deputy chairman of Nur Otan People’s Democratic Party at a meeting with youth, reports KazTAG. March 9 2013, 13:06 1 542 просмотрs

Handsome men don't make good husbands: Nazarbayev to women

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Handsome men don't make good husbands: Nazarbayev to women

Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev has offered advice to single young women. Speaking about perfect husbands and wives, Nazarbayev expressed an opinion that handsome men were not very good husbands March 8 2013, 14:11 1 295 просмотрs

North Korea cancels non-aggression pact with South

North Korea cancels non-aggression pact with South

North Korea is cancelling a hotline and a non-aggression pact with South Korea and reiterating past threats in anger over a UN Security Council vote to impose more sanctions on the North for its third nuclear test. March 8 2013, 13:57 1 564 просмотрs

D Island: Equipment failure (+NCOC comment)

D Island: Equipment failure (+NCOC comment)

As reported by the oblast emergency department, a technical incident took place during well re-entry arrangement at the man-made island D of Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea. March 7 2013, 17:10 7 685 просмотрs

Kazakhstan threatens to give Karachaganak gas to China, not Russia

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Kazakhstan threatens to give Karachaganak gas to China, not Russia

Kazakhstan intends to redicrect gas from its large oil and gas field of Karachaganak to the south, possibly to China, if fails to come to a settlement with Russia over acceptable price of supplies, said Sauat Mynbayev, the country's oil and gas minister. March 7 2013, 16:01 1 972 просмотрs

U.S. to send delegation to Chavez funeral

U.S. to send delegation to Chavez funeral

The Obama administration Wednesday offered Venezuela a chance to rebuild its relationship with the United States after the death of President Hugo Chavez, who had long railed against the “Yankee empire.” March 7 2013, 13:03 1 547 просмотрs

Soviet Soldier, Missing for 33 Years, Found in Afghanistan

Soviet Soldier, Missing for 33 Years, Found in Afghanistan

His real name is Bakhretdin Khakimov and he is a Soviet soldier who has been missing in action since the first months of a nine-year-long bloody war that began when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in late 1979. March 7 2013, 12:57 2 386 просмотрs

Kazakhstan National Medical Holding to open clinics for foreigners

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Kazakhstan National Medical Holding to open clinics for foreigners

The National Medical Holding of Kazakhstan will open the special hospitals for foreigners, Tengrinews.kz reports citing chairman of the National Medical Holding Kennet Alibek. March 7 2013, 12:19 1 510 просмотрs

Atyrau tries universal police

Atyrau tries universal police

Soon Atyrau Oblast will see an experiment - introduction of universal police - joint squads of traffic and patrol police officers. March 7 2013, 11:02 1 742 просмотрs

Military IDs available within month

Military IDs available within month

As we reported before, one month military training courses for those who never saw duty will open in Atyrau. March 6 2013, 15:40 1 935 просмотрs

Atyrau Oblast to have two more plants

Atyrau Oblast to have two more plants

As a part of the 2013 Industrialization Map, two projects worth $6.5bn will be completed in Atyrau Oblast, reports Kazinform. March 6 2013, 15:09 1 910 просмотрs

AK-47s stolen from school

AK-47s stolen from school

Two Kalashnikov rifles were stolen from a public school in Atyrau. The robbers penetrated into the educational facility and beat and tied up the security guard. March 6 2013, 14:19 2 784 просмотрs

Kazakhstan appoints new commander of Republican Guard

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Kazakhstan appoints new commander of Republican Guard

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree appointing Mukhtar Ayubaev as Commander of the Republican Guard. Ayubaev was dismissed as Chief of the Presidential Guard Service, presidential press service reported. March 6 2013, 12:46 1 419 просмотрs

Babysitter robbed clients blind

Babysitter robbed clients blind

Police of Atyrau city arrested a 33-year-old woman accused of fraud and who has previous criminal records. March 6 2013, 10:44 2 380 просмотрs

Solar energy to brighten Zhanaozen streets

Solar energy to brighten Zhanaozen streets

Zhanaozen adopts alternative energy: street lamps on solar batteries are being installed throughout the small town to the east of Aktau, writes Tumba. March 6 2013, 09:40 2 118 просмотрs

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Dies From Cancer at 58

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Dies From Cancer at 58

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a prolonged battle with cancer, Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced on national television. March 6 2013, 09:32 1 628 просмотрs

Gabonese woman stabs husband in family row

Gabonese woman stabs husband in family row

On the night of 4-5 March, a lady aged 27, citizen of the Republic of Gabon, struck her husband, a UK citizen, with a knife during a family row in one of hotels in the center of Atyrau. March 5 2013, 17:59 2 837 просмотрs

Corruption fighters to make relatives of officials list

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Corruption fighters to make relatives of officials list

Anti-corruption committee of the Nur Otan Party intends to create a database of closest relatives of high-rank government officials, reports KTK. March 5 2013, 16:53 1 552 просмотрs

Zhaikmunai buys three oil and gas fields for $16mln

Zhaikmunai buys three oil and gas fields for $16mln

Zhaikmunai LLP, an oil and gas production company operating in the north-west of Kazakhstan, has completed a purchase of rights to exploit three oil and gas deposits for 16mln dollars, the company announced, writes IA Novosti Kazakhstan. March 5 2013, 15:57 4 098 просмотрs

A Uralsk girl to represent Kazakhstan at World's Top Model Pageant

A Uralsk girl to represent Kazakhstan at World's Top Model Pageant

18 year-old Diana Abdrakhmanova from Uralsk will represent Kazakhstan at the international Top Model pageant in Egypt, writes Uralskaya Nedelya. March 5 2013, 15:33 7 293 просмотрs

NCOC hands over sponsorship and donation projects

NCOC hands over sponsorship and donation projects

Atyrau, 4 March 2013: North Caspian Operating Company B.V. (NCOC) handed over 11 projects completed under the Consortium’s Sponsorship and Donation Programme. March 5 2013, 14:37 2 560 просмотрs

Five Kazakhs among the richest in the world

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Five Kazakhs among the richest in the world

According to Forbes-Kazakhstan, five Kazakh citizens were placed in the 2012 list of the wealthiest people in the world. March 5 2013, 10:55 2 097 просмотрs