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The state-of-the-nation address is a very special genre of public speech. The heads of states of many countries follow the American prototype and imitate the US presidents,...
NUR-SULTAN – As Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address on Sept. 1, the government came up quickly with their ideas on how to implement...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Chess player Bibisara Assaubayeva, 17, became the female chess champion at the online Asian Chess Championship, the Kazakhstan Chess Federation reported. This is her...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh adventure comedy “Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It!” won the Festival Director’s Choice Award at the Ravenheart International Film Festival taking place in Oslo...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh political analysts have observed that the initiatives and instructions laid out in President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s Sept. 1 address-to-the-nation clearly outline the key priorities for...
NUR-SULTAN – President Joseph Biden congratulated President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on the 30th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, reports the Akorda press service. ...
NUR-SULTAN – The national football team of Kazakhstan played a match in the qualification of Mundial 2022 with the national team Ukraine Sept. 1 in Nur-Sultan. Two...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan has ordered two Airbus A400M aircraft for its Defense Ministry, reports the Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development. The delivery of the first...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Air Astana will resume direct flights from Kazakhstan’s capital Nur-Sultan to London starting Sept. 18, adding the United Kingdom to the list of countries...
NUR-SULTAN – This year, the academic year will start in offline format in 7,500 schools with 3.5 million pupils after nearly a year of online classes in...
NUR-SULTAN – Developing nuclear energy, boosting the country’s military capacity, extending support for businesses, and five new social initiatives were among the topics that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Defense Minister Nurlan Yermekbayev resigned after an explosion at an ammunition depot in the Zhambyl Region killed 15 and injured nearly 100 people, reports...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan showed an increase in net foreign direct investment (FDI) compared to 17 countries with transition economies and 34 landlocked countries, according to the World...
NUR-SULTAN – The All Dogs Matter photo exhibition showcased photographs capturing the life of homeless dogs and cats through the eyes of the volunteers in the Kazakh...
NUR-SULTAN – Istanbul-based TAV Airports Holding plans to invest in the construction of a new international terminal at Almaty airport, the press service of the airport reported....
NUR-SULTAN – One more person was found killed in a massive blast at an arms depot in the Zhambyl Region on Aug. 26 bringing the total death...
NUR-SULTAN – The KulanSteppe pilot project, launched in 2017, aims to increase the kulan population in central Kazakhstan, which is one of the flagship species of the...
NUR-SULTAN – This year marks the 26th anniversary of the Kazakh Constitution, which is observed on Aug. 30. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev congratulated the Kazakh people on Constitution...
NUR-SULTAN – British polar athlete and explorer and the cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, Rosie Stancer, is currently on an expedition to the Aralkum desert in Kazakhstan,...
NUR-SULTAN – The Atyrau region contributes 88 percent of industrial products and attracts approximately 30 percent of investments to Kazakhstan, said Kanysh Mambetov, acting head of the...
NUR-SULTAN – Dismantling the nuclear arsenal that Kazakhstan inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union has been proven to be a visionary, wise and noble decision,...
NUR-SULTAN – President of the European Council Charles Michel expressed appreciation to Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for his support in the evacuation and hosting of the United...
NUR-SULTAN – Increasing the investment attractiveness of the oil and gas sector was discussed at the working meeting of the Foreign Investors’ Council (FIC), which was held...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Paralympian athletes David Degtyarev won the gold medal and Anuar Sariyev won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Earlier, Kazakh President...
NUR-SULTAN – At least nine people were killed and 90 wounded in a blast at a military unit stationed in the Zhambyl Region on the evening of...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the NGO Chief Editors Club have announced on Aug. 26 the names of the winners of the sixth...
A quarter of all worldwide nuclear tests were conducted at the Semey test site for almost half a century during Soviet times. This year marks 30 years...
NUR-SULTAN – The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) released a joint statement to mark the 30th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, the...
NUR-SULTAN – The exhibition featuring art installations devoted to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was opened on Aug.18 at the Nursultan Nazarbayev International airport in the Kazakh...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s interdepartmental commission working to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection decided to ease COVID-19 restrictions as the epidemiological situation is stabilizing, reports the Kazakh...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Government has adopted the budget for 2022-2024 at their meeting on Tuesday. Minister of Finance Erulan Zhamaubayev spoke about the draft budget plan...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will begin the national census on Sept. 1 – a process that will last through Oct. 30. The government reviewed the preparation for the...
The 16th Summer Paralympic Games started on Aug. 24 and will continue through Sept. 5. Twenty-five Kazakh athletes from seven sporting events will take part in the...
NUR-SULTAN — In the last years, the Kazakh cinema industry has thrived with a new generation of directors that have attracted international attention for their work. From...
On August 23, leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states gathered for the extraordinary session of the Collective Security Council of the CSTO held...
Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries can never let down their guard. The COVID-19 pandemic,...
NUR-SULTAN – Unvaccinated population accounts for the majority of coronavirus cases and severe course of the infection, said Kazakh Minister of Healthcare Alexei Tsoy at a government...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the Kaisar-2021 military exercises on Aug. 22 at the Center of Combat and Methodical Training of the National Guard in the...
NUR-SULTAN – President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took part in an extraordinary session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Monday, Aug....
NUR-SULTAN – The Dostyk Trans Terminal will significantly increase its cargo traffic capacity by 2022, reported the press service of the PTC Cargo company. The terminal, which...
The problem of nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site was raised at the United Nations for the first time at the 45th session of the General...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin spoke about the need to update the union’s measures to ensure economic stability amid the ongoing pandemic at the Aug....
NUR-SULTAN – A group of 108 people representing the United Nations personnel accredited in Afghanistan arrived from Kabul to Almaty on Aug. 22, reported the UN in...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his working visit to Moscow on Saturday, the Akorda press service reports. Tokayev and...
The people of Kazakhstan ushered themselves in a new era of prosperity back in 1991. But the same year is remembered as one of the lost opportunities...
NUR-SULTAN – Roscosmos cosmonaut, International Space Station (ISS) flight engineer Oleg Artemyev shared a video of Lake Balkhash from space on Tiktok. “When will there be such...
NUR-SULTAN – The rescuers of the Kazakh Ministry of Emergency Situations have completed their mission on extinguishing wildfires in Turkey. They conducted operations with crews from Russia,...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a meeting on Aug. 19 with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, reported Akorda press service. Tokayev appreciated the results of...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Aviation Administration issued new flight restrictions taking into account the situation in Afghanistan, reported Aug. 18 the press service of the committee. There...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan expressed its support for the United Nations Security Council’s statement on the establishment of a new Afghan government through inclusive negotiations, reported on Aug.19...
NUR-SULTAN – The group of personnel of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) and of other UN agencies accredited in Afghanistan have been temporarily relocated...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Presidential Youth Personnel Reserve will begin receiving applications for its second cohort from Sept. 1, announced Chair of the Kazakh Agency for Civil Service...
NUR-SULTAN – Nur-Sultan has become the 17th city in the world and the first in the CIS and Central Asia that joined the C40 Women4Climate Mentorship Program,...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Healthcare Minister Alexei Tsoy reported about the current epidemiological situation in Kazakhstan saying it shows signs of improvement compared to what the situation was...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan and South Korea signed 34 agreements, including 21 commercial documents and 13 non-commercial ones, worth US$1.7 billion during the Kazakh-Korean business roundtable in Seoul,...
SEOUL – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took part in the opening ceremony of the 2.2 meters high monument commemorating Kazakh poet and philosopher Abai Kunanbayev on Aug.17 as...
NUR-SULTAN – No Kazakh citizens remain in Afghanistan, said the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. “There are no citizens of Kazakhstan on the territory of...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is on his official two-day visit to South Korea that began on Monday, Aug. 16. He met with the President of South...
NUR-SULTAN – Fitch Ratings affirmed Kazakhstan’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at BBB with a stable outlook on Friday, Aug. 13, reports the agency’s press service....
NUR-SULTAN – The management of the Kuryk seaport announced plans to add 1.5-2 million tons of cargo to the port’s capacity by 2022-2023, reported the port’s press...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a meeting on Afghanistan Aug. 16, reported President’s Spokesperson Berik Uali. Prime Minister Askar Mamin and heads of the National...
NUR-SULTAN – The results of phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials of Kazakhstan’s QazVac vaccine have been published in Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine journal on Aug. 13. QazVac,...
NUR-SULTAN – Two helicopters from Kazakhstan have started extinguishing forest fires in the south-west of Turkey, the Ministry for Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan reported. Kazakh aircraft performed...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will pay an official state visit to the Republic of Korea on Aug. 16-17 at the invitation of South Korean President...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan has maintained a high foreign exchange demand due to the ongoing recovery in economic activity and the growth of imports, primarily of consumer goods,...
NUR-SULTAN — Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum, United Kingdom, has unveiled more than 300 artefacts from three burial complexes in the East Kazakhstan region for the first time after...
NUR-SULTAN – Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) report upgraded Kazakhstan’s rating outlook to stable from positive on Aug. 11. “The decision to upgrade the ratings is driven by...
NUR-SULTAN – On Aug. 10, Kazakhstan and various parts of the world celebrated the 176th anniversary of philosopher, poet, educator and founder of Kazakh written literature Abai...
The last decade of the existence of the Soviet Union led to its collapse and gradual recession in the economics of all member countries. On December 8,...
NUR-SULTAN – A video featuring a red wolf listed in the Red Book of Endangered Species was published by videographer from Fort-Shevchenko in the Mangistau region Meirambek...
NUR-SULTAN – Vaccination has improved the epidemiological situation in the country, said Kazakh Minister of Healthcare Alexey Tsoy at the Aug.11 government meeting in the capital. “Taking...
NUR-SULTAN – The KTZE-Khorgos Gateway dry port connecting Kazakhstan and China is the most important transport and logistics center of Kazakhstan. It also connects the markets of...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev congratulated the athletes who took part in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Eight athletes won bronze medals and the country took...
NUR-SULTAN – The students of the Kozybayev North Kazakhstan University will be able to obtain a diploma from the University of Arizona while studying in Kazakhstan, reported...
NUR-SULTAN – A new long-term facility for sealed disused sources of ionizing radiation (SIRs) at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (RSE INP) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, started to...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan dispatched two Mi-8 AMT helicopters and a task force of 16 rescuers to Turkey to assist in extinguishing forest fires, according to the Kazakh...
The third Consultative Meeting of the heads of the Central Asian countries was held on Aug. 6 in Turkmenistan. The previous second advisory meeting of the Central...
NUR-SULTAN – The export of leather goods reached $2.4 million for five months of 2021, which is 73.3 percent higher than in the same period last year,...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called on the leaders of the Central Asian countries to work together “to make the region a stable, economically developed and prosperous”...
Since independence, Kazakhstan, like other post-Soviet countries, has become a recipient of Official Development Assistance (ODA). In 1999, Kazakhstan’s First President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced that the country...
NUR-SULTAN – The Employment Center of the Nur-Sultan city has observed positive employment dynamics, according to the city administration. As a result, nearly 7,000 people have been...
NUR-SULTAN – Winner of the 100 New Faces project Senior Lieutenant Ardana Botai made her first independent flight as the crew commander of the Su-30SM multifunctional fighter...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh boxers Kamshybek Kunkabayev and Saken Bibossinov lost their semi-finals and won bronze medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. On Aug. 5, Bibossinov...
NUR-SULTAN – More than 16,000 people with special needs received prosthetic and orthopedic care services through the website of social services, according to the Ministry of Labor...
NUR-SULTAN – The population of Kazakhstan has reached 19 million people. This was announced by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Aug.3. “In the year of the 30th anniversary...
NUR-SULTAN – Despite the pandemic, people continue to travel abroad and within the country. Experts in the field of tourism spoke about the preferences of Kazakh people...
Congratulations to all those involved in Kazakhstan’s recent municipal elections held across 730 akims and involving nearly 2,300 candidates. The elections covered 13 percent of eligible voters...
NUR-SULTAN – Domestic airlines carried nearly 4 million passengers in the first half of 2021, on Aug. 2 the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Industry...
NUR-SULTAN – The pandemic has accelerated the growth in the e-commerce market globally. In Kazakhstan, the share of e-commerce in retail trade exceeded 1.1 trillion tenge (US$2.5...
NUR-SULTAN – Twenty-five Kazakh athletes from seven sporting events will take part in the 16th Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo on Aug. 24 and Sept. 5. This...
NUR-SULTAN – The new Kazakh film “The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time” starring Samal Yeslyamova has been released in theaters across 21 cities in France, reported Kazinform...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government has introduced plans to include more business enterprises in the Ashyq project and offer more lenient working hours for businesses who follow...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev approved July 19 the main directions of state policy on official development assistance (ODA) for 2021-2025. The document aims to promote...
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is celebrated annually on July 30. Alas, it will be utopic to commemorate the Day of Ending Human Trafficking one day....
Alibek Dnishev, the most famous Kazakh opera singer and a wonderful person, the singing soul of Kazakhstan, turns 70 today. Dnishev was born in Almaty and grew...
NUR-SULTAN – The Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC) shared its macroeconomic report on Kazakhstan on July 26, projecting the country’s 2021 real GDP growth to reach about...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh vaccine QazVac (QazCovid-in) will be produced at the biopharmaceutical plant in the Zhambyl region, reported Healthcare Minister Alexey Tsoy at the July 28...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan delivered its own QazVac vaccine to Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday as humanitarian aid and as part of a broader effort between the two countries in...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s bitcoin mining has dramatically surged into third place on the global market as the country’s share reached 8.2 percent in April, reported the Cambridge...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev checked in on the implementation of investment projects in the Akmola Region and the development prospects of the city of Kokshetau during...
