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The name of capital become history - Kazakh President

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The name of capital become history - Kazakh President

"The name of the Kazkahstan's capital Astana has gone in the global history," the Kazakhstanskaya Pravda quotes the words of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev in the article "Astana - the great epoch and strategic vector of Kazakhstan." July 6 2013, 13:39 2 366 просмотрs

Haven for Snowden: Icelandic Pirate Party pushes for granting NSA leaker citizenship

Haven for Snowden: Icelandic Pirate Party pushes for granting NSA leaker citizenship

Icelandic Pirate Party, which is represented in the parliament, has proposed a bill on granting NSA leaker Edward Snowden citizenship of the island nation. July 5 2013, 17:29 1 262 просмотрs

Kazakhstan plans Almaty Winter Olympic bid: President Nazarbayev

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Kazakhstan plans Almaty Winter Olympic bid: President Nazarbayev

Kazakhstan is going to submit its bid to host the Olympic Winter Games in the city of Almaty. July 5 2013, 16:54 3 138 просмотрs

Coward or scapegoat? Italy cruise captain on trial

Coward or scapegoat? Italy cruise captain on trial

With his slick hair and macho man image, the captain of the Costa Concordia has been portrayed as a villain who crashed and then abandoned his cruise ship in a tragedy that claimed 32 lives July 5 2013, 15:44 1 352 просмотрs

China and Russia conduct joint naval drill

China and Russia conduct joint naval drill

China and Russia are beginning joint naval drills which Beijing has described as the country's largest with a foreign partner. July 5 2013, 12:30 1 249 просмотрs

Kazakhstan’s President on succession of power

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Kazakhstan’s President on succession of power

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev commented on succession of power in Kazakhstan in a documentary titled Nazarbayev.live aired on the national KTK channel July 4. July 5 2013, 12:15 1 509 просмотрs

Smokers speak of scary pics on cigarette packs

Smokers speak of scary pics on cigarette packs

Government has required all tobacco producers to picture symptoms of diseases that may come from smoking on cigarette packs lately. July 5 2013, 09:47 2 752 просмотрs

Governor meets Serbian ambassador

Governor meets Serbian ambassador

July 4, the akim of Atyrau Oblast Baktykozha Izmukhambetov received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia to Kazakhstan Vladimir Mircovic and representatives of Serbian Poljostroj company Gordana Stanimirovic and Pavel Sudors. July 5 2013, 09:21 2 071 просмотрs

Computer mouse inventor dies at 88

Computer mouse inventor dies at 88

Douglas Engelbart, who revolutionized computing by inventing the mouse, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 88, AFP reports citing the institute bearing his name. July 4 2013, 16:53 1 335 просмотрs

Nazarbayev approves road system reform

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Nazarbayev approves road system reform

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a law to reform road transport sector. July 4 2013, 14:39 1 323 просмотрs

Expert: Situation with Kashagan indirectly affects personnel changes at Kazakh Oil Ministry and KazMunaiGas

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Expert: Situation with Kashagan indirectly affects personnel changes at Kazakh Oil Ministry and KazMunaiGas

The situation with Kashagan indirectly affects the personnel changes at the Kazakh Oil Ministry and KazMunaiGas (KMG), Kazakh political analyst Daniar Ashimbayev said on Wednesday. July 4 2013, 12:55 2 287 просмотрs

Egypt crisis: Interim president to be sworn in after Morsi ousted

Egypt crisis: Interim president to be sworn in after Morsi ousted

The top judge of Egypt's constitutional court, Adli Mansour, is to be sworn in as interim leader, hours after the army ousted President Mohammed Morsi. July 4 2013, 11:42 1 535 просмотрs

Human head transplants? Neurosurgeon says ‘we have the technology’

Human head transplants? Neurosurgeon says ‘we have the technology’

July 3 2013, 18:06 2 025 просмотрs

Riots in Ukraine after policemen accused of gang rape

Riots in Ukraine after policemen accused of gang rape

Several hundred protesters stormed a police station in southern Ukraine on Tuesday after authorities failed to arrest one of two policemen implicated in the rape of a young woman. July 3 2013, 17:35 2 446 просмотрs

Ex oil minister Mynbayev replaces KMG head Kiyinov

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Ex oil minister Mynbayev replaces KMG head Kiyinov

Upon the ruling of Kazakhstan President and decision by the Board of Samruk Kazyna National Well-being Fund, Lyazzat Kiyinov has been relieved from the post of Kazmunaygas CEO. July 3 2013, 15:28 2 340 просмотрs

Uzakbai Karabalin - new oil and gas minister

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Uzakbai Karabalin - new oil and gas minister

Uzakbai Karabalin has been appointed minister of oil and gas of Kazakhstan, presidential media service announced. July 3 2013, 12:11 2 420 просмотрs

Chinese set for stake in Kazakh super-giant oil field

Chinese set for stake in Kazakh super-giant oil field

Chinese energy major CNPC is about to snap up a stake in Kazakhstan’s super-giant Kashagan oil field just as the project prepares to start commercial production, expanding an already significant Chinese presence in Kazakhstan’s energy sector. July 3 2013, 11:58 1 833 просмотрs

Nazarbayev expects ease of UK visa procedures as discusses armless Kazakh artist incident with Cameron

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Nazarbayev expects ease of UK visa procedures as discusses armless Kazakh artist incident with Cameron

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and British Prime-Minister David Cameron have discussed the incident that happened with the visa of disabled artist from Kazakhstan Karipbek Kuyukov July 3 2013, 11:29 1 663 просмотрs

Tough times ahead for US whistleblower

Tough times ahead for US whistleblower

They seek him here; they seek him there. The whereabouts of whistleblower Edward Snowden still puzzles media hawks trolling every nook and cranny of a Moscow airport where it's believed the fugitive from US justice is still in transit. July 3 2013, 11:26 1 383 просмотрs

Woman falls, dies in lift shaft

Woman falls, dies in lift shaft

July 2, at around 22.10, in an attempt to get off an elevator that had stuck between 7 and 8 floors a young woman fell down the shaft and died in a high-rise apartment block in the Almagul District, Atyrau. July 3 2013, 09:26 3 640 просмотрs

Russian PM orders to find guilty in rocket explosion, as Kazakhs demand compensation

Russian PM orders to find guilty in rocket explosion, as Kazakhs demand compensation

Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev has demanded to form a government commission to investigate the fall of Proton-M rocket carrier seconds after it was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and compile a list of inviduals responsible for the incident July 2 2013, 17:36 1 415 просмотрs

Kazakhstan to buy ConocoPhillips stake in Kashagan

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Kazakhstan to buy ConocoPhillips stake in Kashagan

Kazakhstan's oil and gas ministry has notified ConocoPhillips of its intention to apply the pre-emption right to purchase the company's 8.4% share in the North Caspian project July 2 2013, 16:57 2 332 просмотрs

Edward Snowden withdraws Russian asylum request

Edward Snowden withdraws Russian asylum request

NSA whistleblower withdraws asylum request after Putin says he could stay only if he stopped harming US interests July 2 2013, 15:04 1 191 просмотрs

Snowden applies for political asylum in Russia – and 20 other countries

Snowden applies for political asylum in Russia – and 20 other countries

Vladmir Putin says US whistleblower can stay if he stops 'bringing harm to our American partners' July 2 2013, 14:26 1 449 просмотрs

Russia to hold talks with N. Korea on nuclear program closure

Russia to hold talks with N. Korea on nuclear program closure

North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator will meet senior Russian officials next week to discuss ending the embattled nation's nuclear program, Russia's foreign ministry said. July 2 2013, 14:19 1 556 просмотрs