All news

Economy

3bn for employment program

According to state program ‘Employment road map -2020” it is scheduled to employ 3 800 people till the end of this year. May 12 2014, 11:46 3 352 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

11 killed when SUV collided with passenger bus in Kzyl-Orda

Today the victims of head-on-collision accident, that happened on May 7 on public holiday in Kzyl-Orda, made a loud statement. They blamed the SUV driver in the terrible road accident that took 11 lives, as opposed to the previous version of the police where the bus driver was considered guilty, azh.kz reports. May 12 2014, 10:46 1 455 просмотрs

World News

Early results show landslide support in Donetsk and Lugansk regions for self-rule

Election commissions in Donetsk and Lugansk are still counting the ballots, but preliminary results show the majority of eastern Ukrainians supported self-rule, despite intensified military operation by Kiev which resulted in several deaths, rt.com reports. May 12 2014, 09:57 1 186 просмотрs

World News

400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine military op

About 400 elite mercenaries from the notorious US private security firm Academi (formerly Blackwater) are taking part in the Ukrainian military operation against anti-government protesters in southeastern regions of the country, German media reports. May 12 2014, 09:38 2 154 просмотрs

World News

'Noah' banned in Arab world, China

Three Arab countries have banned the Hollywood film Noah on religious grounds even before its worldwide premier and several others are expected to follow suit, a representative of Paramount Pictures told Reuters on Saturday, ewn.co.za reports. May 11 2014, 18:04 1 522 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

British company to help Kazakhstan build solar plant

A four-party memorandum was signed in the akimat (administration) of the Zhambyl region to realize 400 MW renewable energy projects, its press service said to inform.kz.  May 11 2014, 16:48 1 696 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Counting losses from Kashagan suspension

Losses from the forthcoming two-year suspension of the Kashagan oilfield development project in Kazakhstan are estimated at two billion dollars, tengrinews reports citing the findings of a senior Researcher at the Institute of Economics PWS Kazakhstan Oleg Yegorov. May 11 2014, 16:31 3 999 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Iranian investors interested in Kenderli Resort in Western Kazakhstan

Iranian investors have expressed interest in Kazakhstan's Kenderli resort, tengrinews reports citing Marat Igaliev, Chairman of the Tourism and Industry Committee of Kazakhstan. May 11 2014, 16:27 1 605 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Netflix's Marco Polo drama to be filmed in Kazakhstan

Filming for the new Netflix series Marco Polo will take place in Kazakhstan and Italy, as well as in a Malaysian studio, from August this year, according to the Radio Times. May 11 2014, 16:19 3 502 просмотрs

World News

Right Wing British MEP Blames UK Government for Ukraine Crisis

The leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip), Nigel Farage MEP, has told RIA Novosti he believes the EU and British Government have “provoked” the crisis in Ukraine, ria.ru reports. May 11 2014, 16:06 1 518 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

President Nursultan Nazarbayev meets US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev met US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns May 8, tengrinews.kz reports, citing the President’s website. May 11 2014, 11:31 2 324 просмотрs

World News

East Ukraine’s Donetsk republic plans to hold sovereignty referendum jointly with Luhansk

The leadership of the recently self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic plans to hold a referendum simultaneously with east Ukraine’s Luhansk region, co-chairman of the Donetsk People’s Republic presidium Denis Pushilin told itar-tass. May 11 2014, 11:09 1 637 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Rakhat Aliyev associate arrested over money laundering investigation

A journalist and former director of Radio Free Europe in Kiev was arrested in connection with criminal investigations that have led to the freezing of assets of Kazakh exile and multi-millionaire Rakhat Aliyev, maltatoday.com reports. May 11 2014, 10:03 4 069 просмотрs

World News

Eurovision 2014: Bearded Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst wins

Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with a score of 290 after a grandiose ballad Rise Like a Phoenix, before a TV audience of around 180 million people in 45 countries, azh.kz reports citing dailymail.com. May 11 2014, 09:20 3 496 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakh lieutenant was the first to raise flag over the Reichstag

According to Soviet textbooks, the sergeants Kantariya and Egorov were the first to plant the Soviet flag on the Victory day over the Reichstag on April 30, 1945, but only after a good spell the people of Kazakhstan learned the names of the first soldiers who stormed the Reichstag and put up the Victory Banner. They were Rakhimzhan Koshkarbayev from Kazakhstan and Grigory Bulatov from Russia, azh.kz reports citing tengrinews.kz. May 10 2014, 15:07 8 426 просмотрs

World News

Ukraine Kherson region governor called Hitler 'liberator'

Addressing the public on a Victory Day, the governor of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region trampled on the feelings of many veterans and desecrated the memory of all those who perished during the war against Nazi Germany by calling Hitler a “liberator,” azh.kz reports citing world media. May 10 2014, 14:14 2 169 просмотрs

Society

Automobilists and bikers’ V-Day rally

Automobilists and bikers’ rally dedicated to the Victory Day took place in Atyrau on May 9.  the organizers were local bikers and automobilists’ clubs who submitted the request to the local government well in advance. May 10 2014, 14:00 1 587 просмотрs

World News

Vietnam Squares Off With China in Disputed Seas

Tensions in the South China Sea intensified Wednesday as Vietnamese vessels confronted Chinese ships that were working to place an oil rig off Vietnam’s coast, and Vietnamese officials claimed that their ships had been rammed by the Chinese vessels three days earlier, nytimes.com reports. May 8 2014, 18:11 2 726 просмотрs

World News

Kiev cancels May 9 celebrations

Kyiv will not celebrate may 9 and will replace George ribbon with a red poppy, news2night.com reports. May 8 2014, 17:54 1 581 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Bravery of Kazakhs in World War II

The annual celebrations of the Victory Day will be taking place on the 9th of May. The holiday is dedicated to remembering the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in 1945 in the Great Patriotic War as the WWII is known in the former Soviet states. The surrender documents were signed in the late of night on 8 May 1945. it was already May 9 Moscow time. Celebrating this day has become a tradition in Kazakhstan. May 8 2014, 17:26 4 993 просмотрs

World News

Odessa inferno victims poisoned by unknown substance

Victims of a major fire at a trade union building in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa have died instantly because of poisoning by an unknown substance, says a top Kiev official, azh.kz reports citing presstv.ir. May 8 2014, 17:14 1 487 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Astana have Giro d'Italia visa problems

Astana have become the latest team to suffer visa problems ahead of the Giro d'Italia. The Kazakh team have had to withdraw Maxim Iglinskiy and Alexey Lutsenko from their line-up after they failed to secure visas in time for the start in Belfast, azh.kz reports citing sport.gazeta.kz.  May 8 2014, 16:50 2 888 просмотрs

Economy

Atyrau to launch 800,000 tpa PP plant by 2016

Kazakhstan is set to construct a major petrochemicals complex in the Atyrau region that is designed to produce up to 800,000 tpa of polypropylene from 2016, azh.kz reports, referring to European Plastics website. May 6 2014, 16:01 8 488 просмотрs

World News

Russian strategic bombers flying along California coast

The Associated Press reported Monday that Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast, breitbart.com reports. May 6 2014, 15:47 1 634 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

President Nazarbayev presented state awards in Akorda

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has presented a number of officials with state awards on the threshold of the Defender of the Motherland Day in the Akorda presidential residence in Astana, inform.kz reports. May 6 2014, 13:42 2 845 просмотрs