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Kashagan: pipes not meeting designed requirements

Hearings are ongoing at Atyrau economic court with regards to the appeal filed by NCOC consortium against the instruction of the regional ecology department about payment for damage based on audits carried out after gas pipeline leaks (see “Consortium faces ecological penalty amounting to 134bn tenge”).  April 23 2014, 16:22 3 040 просмотрs

World News

Ukraine calls for renewal of anti-terror measures

Ukraine's acting President called on law enforcement agencies to renew anti-terror measures across the country, citing the discovery of two tortured bodies near the city of Slaviansk, cnn reports. April 23 2014, 12:19 2 619 просмотрs

World News

Body of Ukrainian official found dead in river

The Interior Ministry identified Batkivshchyna party Horlivka City Councilman Volodymyr Rybak as one of the two dead bodies found on April 19 in a local river of Slovyansk District in Donetsk Oblast, kyivpost reports.  April 23 2014, 12:05 2 098 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Thousands at Kashagan may lose jobs

In Mangistau Oblast because of shutdown at Kashagan field thousands of workers may lose their jobs, azh.kz reports, citing channel 31. April 23 2014, 11:12 2 723 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Caspian sea closed for US military

A convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea will keep the sea free from any military facilities except of either Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Iran or Azerbaijan, according to nur.kz citing Kazakhstan's KTK Channel.  April 23 2014, 10:58 6 040 просмотрs

World News

Under Russia, Life in Crimea Grows Chaotic

After Russia annexed Crimea practically overnight, the Russian bureaucrats handling passports and residence permits inhabited the building of their Ukrainian predecessors, where Roman Nikolayev now waits daily with a seemingly mundane question, nytimes.com reports. April 23 2014, 09:34 1 609 просмотрs

World News

Ukraine crisis: Biden says Russia must 'start acting'

US Vice-President Joe Biden has said Russia must "stop talking and start acting" to defuse the Ukraine crisis, bbc reports. April 22 2014, 17:33 2 438 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Total says oil output to be expected from Kashagan after 2015

French major Total said no oil production was to be expected from the troubled Kashagan project in Kazakhstan this year and it was not likely to yield much next year either, reuters.com reports. April 22 2014, 15:08 1 462 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Rare Manul cat caught in the suburb of Astana

A rare mammal named Manul cat has been caught in the suburb of Astana. That animal is the ancestor of all cats, inform.kz reports.  April 22 2014, 14:49 6 241 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

State Protection Service formed in Kazakhstan

State Protection Service formed as per the president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s decree, was the result of merge of the previous services - the President’s Security Service and the Republican Guards, azh.kz reports citing the President’s press service. April 22 2014, 14:41 1 782 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Caspian states to limit deployment of third countries' military forces in the sea (+update)

Today the FMs of “Caspian Five” will consider the draft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea at the meeting in Moscow, azh.kz reports citing kommersant.ru newspaper. The Moscow meeting is the preparation stage for the September summit that will take place this fall in the Russian city of Astrakhan. April 22 2014, 12:03 2 104 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

500 Kazakhs became Heroes of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War

This year Kazakhstan marks the 69th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, inform.kz reports. April 22 2014, 11:47 8 156 просмотрs

World News

Crimean Tatars Public Building Attacked. New Head of Crimea Recommends Them to Leave

On Monday, April 21, following a Russian presidential decree on rehabilitation of Crimean Tatars and other ethnic groups living in Crimea who had suffered from Stalin's purges, the building of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people was attacked by a group wearing military uniforms without insignia, azh.kz reports. April 22 2014, 09:38 2 348 просмотрs

World News

Britain's Got Talent star Lettice Rowbotham performed for Vladimir Putin - at daughter's secret wedding

Lettice Rowbotham told the Sunday People she was paid just £200 and escorted in and out of the reception at the luxury hotel La Mamounia, in Marrakesh, “quickly”   April 21 2014, 16:55 13 315 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Editor of magazine may seek justice in Hague after Hitler publication

Editor-in-Chief Zharylkap Kalybai of Anyz Adam magazine base in Alamty, the April issue of which was dedicated to Hitler, announced that he intends to file a lawsuit against KTK TV channel and RoK Information and Communication Agency, azh.kz reports. April 21 2014, 16:46 1 808 просмотрs

World News

South Korea president says crew's conduct 'unforgivable,' 'murderous'

South Korea's president described the actions of a sunken ferry's crew as "unforgivable" and "murderous" Monday as a prosecutor said that four more crew members had been detained on charges that they had allegedly failed to protect the stricken vessel's passengers. April 21 2014, 14:48 1 386 просмотрs

World News

Putin Introduces Bill On Gambling Zone in Crimea

Russian President Vladimir Putin has introduced a bill on creating a specially-designated gambling zone in Crimea, according to an announcement made Monday on the webpage of the lower house of the Russian parliament, ria.ru reports. April 21 2014, 14:36 1 330 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Italy grants Mukhtar Ablyazov's wife and daughter refugee status

The Italian authorities have granted the refugee status to Mukhtar Ablyazov's wife Alma Shalabayeva and their daughter, ITAR-TASS reported. April 21 2014, 12:38 2 013 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Military parade to be held in Kazakhstan

A military parade will be held in Kazakhstan's Kazak Eli square (country of Kazakhs) on May 7, on Defender of the Fatherland Day, Kazakh Defense Ministry said. April 21 2014, 11:11 4 643 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

President of Kazakhstan pays visit to Almaty Catherdral to congratulate on Orthodox Easter

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev visited the Saint Ascension's Cathedral in Almaty on April 21 to congratulate the Orthodox Christians on Easter, the President's press service reported. April 21 2014, 11:08 1 472 просмотрs

World News

Florida sinkhole swallows parts of resort near Disney World

A 60-foot-wide sinkhole formed under a resort in central Florida late Sunday, forcing guests out of their rooms as one three-story building collapsed and another slowly sank, cnn reports. April 21 2014, 11:00 2 609 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Breast cancer rates in Kazakhstan highest in Central Asia

Kazakhstan has the highest breast cancer rate in Central Asia, tengrinews reports citing the president of the Breast Physicians Association of Kazakhstan Raushan Rakhimzhanova. April 21 2014, 09:44 2 268 просмотрs

World News

Canadians rally to legalize marijuana

Several thousand people came out in Canada's biggest cities to call for the legalization of marijuana - a yearly protest that happens internationally on April 20, afp.com reports. April 21 2014, 09:31 1 323 просмотрs

World News

Vice President Biden to meet Ukraine president, prime minister in Kiev

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will meet with Ukraine's acting president, Oleksander Turchinov, and Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk during a visit to Kiev on Tuesday, the White House said on Sunday, yahoo.news.com reports. April 21 2014, 09:28 1 404 просмотрs

Society

Almaty-Atyrau train derailed, over 30 people injured (Photos, video)

On April 19, at about 6:00pm (Astana time) two last cars of a passenger train performing Almaty - Atyrau route derailed in Atyrau Oblast. April 21 2014, 09:00 4 557 просмотрs