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Stephen King's Mist covers villages in West-Kazakhstan oblast

Stephen King's Mist covers villages in West-Kazakhstan oblast

A strange fog has scared the citizens of one of the villages in West-Kazakhstan oblast and caused the sanitary services to check the area, UralskWeek writes. April 9 2013, 16:13 2 157 просмотрs

Margaret Thatcher dies of stroke aged 87

Margaret Thatcher dies of stroke aged 87

Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning. April 8 2013, 16:27 1 742 просмотрs

BMW with teens turns over

BMW with teens turns over

A BMW X3 car with 8 teenagers turned over on the highway leading to the Atyrau International Airport on April 6, at around 22.30. April 7 2013, 17:08 2 388 просмотрs

Tehran Daily: Baku Should Hold Referendum On Joining Iran

Tehran Daily: Baku Should Hold Referendum On Joining Iran

Hossein Shariatmadari, Editor-in-Chief of Kayhan, a newspaper that reflects Khamenei’s views, maintains in an editorial titled, “Baku’s Turn” that Iran should intervene to “save” the Azeris by proposing to Azerbaijani officials that a referendum be held on the question of unification with Iran. April 6 2013, 10:14 1 381 просмотрs

Tengizchevroil celebrated 20th anniversary

Tengizchevroil celebrated 20th anniversary

On April 5 a solemn meeting dedicated to the 20th anniversary of TCO was held in Atyrau. The day before a similar function was held in Astana with the participation of the President of the country Nursultan Nazarbaev. April 6 2013, 12:06 3 124 просмотрs

399 foreign workforce to arrive to Atyrau Refinery

399 foreign workforce to arrive to Atyrau Refinery

RoK government approved the quota for attraction of foreign labor to Sinopec Engineering , Kazakh branch of Chinese company, for Atyrau Refinery Upgrade project . April 5 2013, 09:52 2 726 просмотрs

Iran Offers World Powers New Round of Cooperation

Iran Offers World Powers New Round of Cooperation

A senior Iranian diplomat present in the talks underway between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, informed that Tehran has offered the six world powers a set of specific proposals for the start of a new round of cooperation. April 5 2013, 17:50 1 236 просмотрs

Dashboard cams: 30 cops sacked in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan News

Dashboard cams: 30 cops sacked in Kazakhstan

"We have achieved some success - as a result of our work, about 15 road policemen were dismissed in the South Kazakhstan Oblast and several more in the rest of Kazakh regions," says the community's activist named Lazuta April 5 2013, 14:39 2 329 просмотрs

Iran urges stronger ties with Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan News

Iran urges stronger ties with Kazakhstan

The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says the expansion of bilateral ties between the Islamic Republic and Kazakhstan would pave the way for the further activation of the common capacities of both countries. April 5 2013, 11:27 1 321 просмотрs

Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio developing Gorbachev project

Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio developing Gorbachev project

The project will revolve around former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev, who helped bring about the end of the Cold War, and will capture the dissolution of the USSR, as seen through Gorbachev's eyes. April 5 2013, 10:00 1 801 просмотрs

Saiga tatarica population to be estimated by aviation

Saiga tatarica population to be estimated by aviation

Estimation of saigas’ population (Betpakdala, Ural, Ust-Yurt populations) by means of aviation started in Kazakhstan on April 4 reports bnews.kz. The action is conducted by Okhotzooprom, the subdivision of the Committee on Forestry and Hunting under the RoK Ministry of Environmental Protection, reads the report of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP). April 4 2013, 16:50 2 590 просмотрs

Advisor to Kazakh President appointed as ambassador to Georgia

Kazakhstan News

Advisor to Kazakh President appointed as ambassador to Georgia

By a decree of President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Yertysbayev Yermukhamet Kabidinovich has been appointed as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Georgia. Earlier Yertysbayev served as presidential adviser on political issues of the country. April 4 2013, 13:06 1 473 просмотрs

Artist Mary O’Connor: Silk Road Behind the Lens

Artist Mary O’Connor: Silk Road Behind the Lens

From the soaring mountain peaks to the lonely desert landscapes, from the people and places to the textures and tastes, acclaimed Irish artist Mary O’Connor has got behind the lens to capture the spirit of Central Asia. The result is “Head Over Heels” , a new book of mind-blowing photographs that takes you on a journey down the Silk Road, winding through the entrancing lands of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. (Joanna Lillis, writer) April 4 2013, 12:52 4 628 просмотрs

Thanks to Chevron Kazakhstan grossed $77bn in 20 years: President

Kazakhstan News

Thanks to Chevron Kazakhstan grossed $77bn in 20 years: President

"Chevron Corporation has invested nearly $20 billion into Tengizchevroil project over two decades. Based on that, Kazakhstan has grossed $77 billion," Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at a reception in Astana on Wednesday. April 4 2013, 12:20 1 766 просмотрs

Iranian Negotiators in Almaty for Talks with Six World Powers

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 1 435 просмотрs

Opposition fails to muster quorum for Quit Customs Union polling

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 2 980 просмотрs

Tengizchevroil, Mangystau akimat sign memo

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 3 249 просмотрs

Kazakh WWII hero girl tomb empty - Russian scouts

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 6 107 просмотрs

North Korea blocks S Korea from joint industrial zone

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 1 451 просмотрs

Facilitation of foreign worker attraction discussed in Kazakhstan

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 1 544 просмотрs

Clan relationships among officials need be removed - expert

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 10 093 просмотрs

MI6 'arranged Cold War killing' of Congo prime minister

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 1 640 просмотрs

Kazakhstan to introduce electronic bracelets in 2014

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 1 314 просмотрs

Artillery shell found in Bautino sea port

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 2 176 просмотрs

Staff sorted out

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 9 098 просмотрs