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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 1 180 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 1 868 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 2 134 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 1 302 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 1 225 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 1 332 просмотрs

Main trial of “Ryskaliev's organized criminal group” postponed for a month

Main trial of “Ryskaliev's organized criminal group” postponed for a month

The date of main judicial proceedings concerning the group of people charged with connections to former governor of Atyrau Oblast Bergey Ryskaliev's activity has been announced. December 26 2013, 13:32 2 927 просмотрs

KazMunaiGas to complete feasibility study to construct 4th oil refinery

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KazMunaiGas to complete feasibility study to construct 4th oil refinery

KazMunaiGas National Oil and Gas Company will complete a feasibility study to construct an oil refinery [4th in the country] in Kazakhstan by 2015, tengrinews.kz reports, citing Samruk-Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund Managing Director Malik Salimgiriyev. December 26 2013, 12:23 1 295 просмотрs

BTA Bank ex-CEO's associate freed from detention in Moscow

BTA Bank ex-CEO's associate freed from detention in Moscow

The Russian Interior Ministry's Investigative Department has released Yelena Tischenko, a close associate of Kazakh billionaire and former chairman of the board of BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov, Kommersant daily reported Thursday, rapsinews.com reports. December 26 2013, 12:11 1 838 просмотрs

Queen Elizabeth Hospital surgeon suspended over 'branding' claim

Queen Elizabeth Hospital surgeon suspended over 'branding' claim

A doctor has been suspended over allegations he "branded" his initials on to a patient's liver, bbc reports. December 25 2013, 20:02 1 216 просмотрs

Аl-Farabi university - smart city project to be launched next year

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Аl-Farabi university - smart city project to be launched next year

In 2014, the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University launches an unprecedented research-innovative project Аl-Farabi university - smart city, which will be the foundation for the university's development up to 2020, inform.kz reports citing the KazNU's press service. December 25 2013, 19:55 3 528 просмотрs

Kashagan oil production may resume in new year

Kashagan oil production may resume in new year

Atyrau Oblast Governor Baktykozha Izmukhambetov said Wednesday he hoped oil production would resume at the Kashagan field early next year after being shut down by a pipeline accident. December 25 2013, 19:41 2 589 просмотрs

Alma Shalabayeva to be granted a visa to enter Italy

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Alma Shalabayeva to be granted a visa to enter Italy

Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of Mukhtar Ablyazov, the ex head of the Kazakhstan-based BTA Bank, will be issued a visa to enter Italy, RIA Novosti reports. Italy’s Foreign Minister Emma Bonino had a telephone talk with Mrs. Shalabayava to inform the latter that she would be issued a Shengen visa to enter the EU, tengrinews reports. December 25 2013, 16:17 1 444 просмотрs

David Cameron explains selfie with Obama and Helle Thorning-Schmidt at Mandela Memorial

David Cameron explains selfie with Obama and Helle Thorning-Schmidt at Mandela Memorial

David Cameron has attempted to explain why he decided to lean in for a ‘selfie’ with Barack Obama and the Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt during Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Johannesberg, independent.co.uk reports. December 25 2013, 15:31 2 228 просмотрs

Michelle Obama 'prepared divorce papers to separate from Barack Obama’

Michelle Obama 'prepared divorce papers to separate from Barack Obama’

Donald Trump will reveal on Wednesday proof that Barack and Michelle Obama once had serious plans to obtain a divorce, according to global.christianpost.com. December 25 2013, 15:13 7 622 просмотрs

Kim tells N Korean army to ready for combat

Kim tells N Korean army to ready for combat

Kim Jong-Un has warned war could break out "without any prior notice" amid heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula, aljazeera.com reports. December 25 2013, 14:43 1 560 просмотрs

Iran mulls plan to move capital from Tehran

Iran mulls plan to move capital from Tehran

The Iranian parliament has voted to consider a proposal to pick another city as the nation's capital, potentially moving the seat of government from the overcrowded Tehran, aljazeera reports. December 25 2013, 13:58 1 507 просмотрs

Former Egyptian Prime Minister arrested

Former Egyptian Prime Minister arrested

Egyptian police arrested former Prime Minister Hisham Qandil in an apartment in Giza governorate, according to state-run news agency EGYNews, cnn reports. December 25 2013, 12:14 1 925 просмотрs

Royal Thai Navy sues two journalists for quoting Reuters report

Royal Thai Navy sues two journalists for quoting Reuters report

Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal defamation charges brought against Alan Morison, an Australian journalist based in the southwestern province of Phuket who edits the news website Phuketwan, and Chutima Sidasathian, a Thai journalist who works for the site, trust.org reports. December 25 2013, 11:37 1 815 просмотрs

Deputy Head of North Kazakhstan Oblast's Financial Police Department shot dead

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Deputy Head of North Kazakhstan Oblast's Financial Police Department shot dead

Zhandos Akhmetov, First Deputy Head of the Agency for Fighting Economic and Corruption Crimes (Financial Police) of North Kazakhstan Oblast, has been shot dead, tengrinews reports citing its source. December 25 2013, 11:30 2 874 просмотрs

Bergey Ryskaliev’s Case: Lawyers File Objections to All Atyrau Judges

Bergey Ryskaliev’s Case: Lawyers File Objections to All Atyrau Judges

Today, Dec 24, at 10am the specialized inter-district criminal court of Atyrau Oblast started the preliminary hearing of the case concerning the organized criminal group of the former governor of Atyrau Oblast Bergei Ryskaliev. There were 22 persons on trial. December 24 2013, 18:21 2 501 просмотрs

Kazakh and Russian Presidents signed cooperation documents

Kazakh and Russian Presidents signed cooperation documents

President of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev arrived in Moscow for participation in the sitting of the Supreme Eurasia Economic Commission. It is planned that President of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev will meet with President of Russia V. Putin during the visit, the president’s press service informs, inform.kz reports. December 24 2013, 17:37 2 152 просмотрs

Kazakhstan Minister of Agriculture to resign if Umiryayev found guilty

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Kazakhstan Minister of Agriculture to resign if Umiryayev found guilty

Kazakhstan Minister of Agriculture Asylzhan Mamytbekov is ready to resign in case Vice-Minister of Agriculture Muslim Umiryayeva, who has been arrested on bribe charges, is found guilty, tengrinews reports citing the Minister's personal Facebook page. December 24 2013, 14:31 2 316 просмотрs

Merry Christmas, our dear readers!

Merry Christmas, our dear readers!

Tomorrow is Christmas Day. Christmas is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. December 24 2013, 14:23 1 715 просмотрs

Two U.S. astronauts set to make Christmas Eve spacewalk for repair job

Two U.S. astronauts set to make Christmas Eve spacewalk for repair job

While many people may spend Christmas Eve doing last-minute gift shopping, two American astronauts have a more challenging matter to attend to Tuesday, cnn reports. December 24 2013, 12:46 2 526 просмотрs