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Iranian Negotiators in Almaty for Talks with Six World Powers

A team of Iranian negotiators is currently in Kazakhstan in a bid to hold talks with the representatives of the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) in the Kazakh city of Almaty on April 5-6.     April 4 2013, 12:09 2 599 views

Kazakhstan News

Opposition fails to muster quorum for Quit Customs Union polling

Kazakh opposition failed to initiate all-national referendum on whether to quit the Customs Union and Common Economic Space, return privatized strategic facilities to the state, ban construction of a nuclear plant and deployment of a nuclear fuel bank in the country, as well as electivity of akims of all levels, said Mukhtar Taizhan, a public figure and one of the referendum initiators. April 3 2013, 15:31 4 205 views

Economy

Tengizchevroil, Mangystau akimat sign memo

Mangystau akimat and Tengizchevroil LLP signed a memorandum of cooperation. The document was signed by governor Alik Aidarbayev on behalf of Mangystau and Tim Miller, general director of the company. April 3 2013, 14:32 4 828 views

Other News

Kazakh WWII hero girl tomb empty - Russian scouts

Russian searchers voiced a sensational statement - Aliya Moldagulova, a sniper killed in action in January 1944 on the Eastern Front of World War II and posthumously awarded the distinction Hero of the Soviet Union the same year, was not buried in the village of Monakovo of Pskov Oblast, NW Russia, as was believed for the past 70 years. April 3 2013, 13:50 7 651 views

World News

North Korea blocks S Korea from joint industrial zone

South Korea says North is denying workers entry to joint-Korean Kaesong complex amid tensions on the peninsula. April 3 2013, 12:45 2 783 views

Kazakhstan News

Facilitation of foreign worker attraction discussed in Kazakhstan

The Kazakh Foreign Ministry and the Labour and Social Protection Ministry have today organised a round table on the facilitation of foreign worker attraction procedures for foreign diplomatic and trade missions, associations of Kazakh and local entrepreneurs, the Foreign Ministry said today. April 3 2013, 11:34 2 775 views

Politics

Clan relationships among officials need be removed - expert

Aidos Sarym, a political scientist, hopes Kazakhstan will eventually get rid of venal practices in the 21st century. For the moment the situation leaves a lot to be desired. April 3 2013, 09:54 12 338 views

World News

MI6 'arranged Cold War killing' of Congo prime minister

Claims over Patrice Lumumba's 1961 assassination made by Labour peer in letter to London Review of Books April 2 2013, 17:10 3 072 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan to introduce electronic bracelets in 2014

Kazakhstan plans to start using electronic bracelets in 2014, KazTAG reports citing chairman of the Correctional System Commission of Kazakhstan Interior Ministry Baurzhan Berdalin. April 2 2013, 16:51 2 606 views

Other News

Artillery shell found in Bautino sea port

An artillery shell was found in the port of Bautino situated on the coast of the Caspian Sea, in 140km from Aktau, the capital of Mangystau Oblast. April 2 2013, 16:16 3 283 views

Politics

Staff sorted out

On March 27 there was one issue on the agenda of the extraordinary session of Atyrau Oblast Maslikhat: establishment of the oblast cadre personnel commission within the framework of amendments to the civil service legislation that came into force on March 26. April 2 2013, 15:30 10 965 views

Kazakhstan News

68 percent manipulate employers in Kazakhstan

Over a half of the polled Kazakhstan residents have manipulated their employers at least once to get what they want, Tengrinews.kz reports citing a survey by HeadHunter. April 2 2013, 15:04 2 480 views

Kazakhstan News

Thirty people to get bounty from FinPol

About 30 individuals in Kazakhstan will likely receive money prize for reporting about corruption to Financial Police, the country's agency for countering economic and corruption crimes, said its official Murat Zhumanbai. April 2 2013, 14:21 2 779 views

Kazakhstan News

Astana-Almaty high speed railway to be constructed in Kazakhstan

It is planned to start constructing the Astana-Almaty high speed rail line in 2013, Kazakh Minister of Transport and Communications Askar Zhumagaliyev said during a government hour in the Majilis (a lower chamber of the Kazakh parliament) on Monday. April 2 2013, 11:46 2 650 views

World News

Abbas confirms Jordan as custodian of Jerusalem holy sites

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas signed a deal with King Abdullah II on Sunday confirming Jordan's historic role as custodian of the holy sites in Jerusalem, AFP reports citing the palace. April 2 2013, 10:15 2 503 views

World News

April Fool's Day pranks of 2013

Companies on April 1 come up with creative ideas to befool and mislead users. Like every year, it happened this year too. Here's our pick of some of the top April Fool's Day 2013 hoaxes. April 1 2013, 20:46 3 551 views

Kazakhstan News

Air Astana launches direct flights to Kiev, Moscow

Air Astana Company launched regular direct flights Astana- Kiev and Almaty-Kiev operated three times a week starting from 31 March 2013 by Airbus A320 aircraft. April 1 2013, 18:03 3 440 views

Crime

New Chief of Police Appointed in Kulsary

The press service of Atyrau Oblast Department of Internal Affairs reports that instead of dismissed police chief Serik Erboulekov, after Kulsary policemen were involved in rape case, (see “Cops involved in rape in Kulsary”), new Kulsary police chief has been appointed. April 1 2013, 17:37 3 048 views

World News

Berezovsky's girlfriend doubts suicide

The 23-year-old girlfriend of the late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky said she did not believe he had killed himself and that they had been planning to go to Israel on holiday together days after he was found dead. April 1 2013, 17:14 3 873 views

Kazakhstan News

President of Kazakhstan to visit China

“The President of Kazakhstan will hold talks with President of China Xi Jinping and take part in the Boao Forum for Asia in the upcoming week,” Official Spokesperson of the Central Communications Service for the President of Kazakhstan Altay Abibullayev informed at the media briefing, Kazinform has learnt from the Central Communications Service's official website. April 1 2013, 17:02 2 366 views

Ecology

Fish protection action ”Bekire-2013” (Sturgeon-2013) starts in Atyrau on April 1

Large-scale fish protection action “Bekire-2013” starts on April 1, 2013 in Atyrau aimed at preservation of fish stock, reads the press service report of the Ministry of environmental protection. April 1 2013, 15:01 7 598 views

Kazakhstan News

Some of the Kazakh airlines to suspend activity after recertification – Minister Zhumagaliyev

In the course of recertification that will take place in 2013, some of the Kazakhstan airlines may suspend their activity, said Askar Zhumagaliyev, the RoK Minister of Transport and Communications during the governmental hour at the parliament Mazhilis on Monday. April 1 2013, 11:58 2 733 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakh ice skater won silver medal at 'Triglav Trophy' in Slovenia

Kazakh ice skater Abzal Rakimgaliyev came second in men's single skating at Triglav Trophy international figure skating in Blede city, Slovenia. April 1 2013, 11:06 2 572 views

World News

Bird Flu: New Avian Influenza Virus Kills Two In China

Two people in Shanghai died this month from a new strain of avian influenza virus that had never been passed to humans before, China's official Xinhua news agency reported Sunday. April 1 2013, 10:03 2 590 views

World News

Gorbachev says USSR collapse not his fault

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday condemned attempts to blame him for the Soviet Union's breakup. April 1 2013, 09:05 3 143 views