- Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
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NUR-SULTAN – Government for Citizens state corporation will be opening new front offices in the capital and Almaty by the end of August to reduce the large queues for public services, said company head Assemgul Baltasheva in her Aug. 13 Facebook post. The cities’ existing public service centres (TsONs) provided more …
NUR-SULTAN – Government for Citizens state corporation will be opening new front offices in the capital and Almaty by the end of August to reduce the large queues for public services, said company head Assemgul Baltasheva in her Aug. 13 Facebook post. The cities’ existing public service centres (TsONs)...
NUR-SULTAN – Incumbent President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev won Kazakhstan’s June 9 presidential election, receiving 70.96 percent of the vote (6,539,715 votes), said Central Election Commission (CEC) Member Lyazzat Suleimen at a June 10 CEC briefing on election results. With more than 50 percent of the vote, he was recognised as...
NUR-SULTAN – The capital’s top medical specialists held two master classes at the Akmola Region Multidisciplinary Hospital. The operations and surgical trainings at the leading capital clinics concerned pancreatic cancer and polytrauma. In the first class, surgical oncologist and National Scientific Medical Centre surgical department head Yerzhan Shayakhmetov, who...
BERLIN – Kazakh Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov discussed ways to strengthen economic, political and humanitarian ties with German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas during Atamkulov’s Aug. 19 first visit to Berlin in his capacity. The Kazakh delegation headed by Atamkulov also met with high-level German officials, including...
NUR-SULTAN – Author Marina Abrams is introducing Central Asia to people of all ages in the English and Russian-language illustrated book “Orange and Blue: The World of Barzu.” The story of a boy from the mountains and his family features a folkloric narrative and an educational section, all of...
NUR-SULTAN – Prime Minister Askar Mamin visited the Kostanai Region Aug. 14-15 where he was briefed on the progress of the region’s industrial and infrastructure development. Mamin visited the Severnyi microdistrict in Zarechnoye village, where, as part of the Nurly Zher Housing Programme, 279 houses are being built. “Now,...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources and Ministry of Culture and Sports are planning ecological tourism projects in Charyn, Ile-Alatau and Kolsai Lakes national parks. The programme will increase the annual tourist flow from 1.3 million to 3.4 million by 2025 and ensure the...
NUR-SULTAN – The ArmandaStar exhibition, designed to support the work of young artists as part of the Year of Youth in Kazakhstan, opened Aug. 2 at the National Museum. “Kazakhstan’s First President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, declared the year 2019 as the Year of Youth. In this regard, various events are...
NUR-SULTAN – Athletes from around the world will compete in the 2019 Senior Wrestling World Championships at the capital’s Barys Arena Sept. 14-22, reports United World Wrestling. Senior wrestling is the term for a competitive category that includes men’s Greco-Roman wrestling and women’s and men’s freestyle wrestling. It does...
NUR-SULTAN – The Slavic ethno cultural centre in the Pavlodar Region has been working for 23 years to preserve Slavic culture and languages by promoting creativity, physical and spiritual development, patriotism and humanist education, especially among youth, said the centre’s head Tatyana Kuzina. “The most important thing for young...
When the Ruhani Zhangyru initiative to modernise Kazakhstan’s national identity was launched by Kazakhstan’s First President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in 2017, it was recognised as a courageous step. It came, after all, at a time when many other countries seemed, as now, to be looking inwards and often backwards. Given...
As is well-known, India is the most populous democracy and the sixth largest economy in the world with a GDP of 2.69 trillion. U.S. analysts predict India, currently the world’s sixth largest economy, could become the third largest by 2025. The Indian Government is implementing programmes to stimulate economic...
