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The success of any major event is judged not only by the number of its visitors or how well it is organised, but also by its legacy....
ASTANA – Kazakh TV has launched a new television show covering trends in Kazakh music. Host Timur Balymbetov discusses the hottest news from Kazakh show business, video...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Ruslan Kurbanov won a bronze medal in the Trofeo Carroccio Men’s Epee World Cup in Legnano, Italy, on Nov. 17-18, in which a total...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s criminal justice system will be fully digitised by 2018, said Kazakh Prosecutor General Zhakip Asanov at a Nov. 15 Parliament’s plenary session. The meeting...
ASTANA – Small passenger airplanes will soon begin flying between small Kazakh cities and villages, according to the Facebook page of Acting Deputy Chairman of Civil Aviation...
ASTANA – The Diplomatic Christmas Charity Bazaar, initiated by the Ambassadors’ Spouses Association (ASA), will gather the capital diplomatic community and city residents Dec. 3 from 11...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government has allocated 15.7 billion tenge (US$47.3 million) to clean and sanitise reservoirs the Shchuchinsk-Borovoe resort zone, including Shchuchye, Borovoe and Karasu lakes...
ASTANA – The capital’s main Christmas tree, as well as the ice rink, will be situated on the expo grounds, said EXPO 2017 commericialisation department director Daulet...
ASTANA – Yesset Kuanov won a gold medal in the up to 62 kilogrammes (kg) weight category at the World Sambo Championship in Sochi, reported Tass.ru. The...
ASTANA – The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), international centre for green technologies and international IT start-up hub are expected to begin operating on former EXPO 2017...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s first sports drama television series, about the challenging path of a young man in a professional cycling, was shot in the country, 24.kz reports....
ASTANA – Three Kazakh oil refineries will start producing aviation fuel in the second half of 2018 and are expected to be able to fully supply the...
ASTANA – Fourteen thousand children during the last seven years were born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies in Kazakhstan, Vice Minister of Healthcare of the...
ASTANA – Celebrating the 23rd anniversary of Kazakh – Saudi Arabian relations, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Kazakhstan Dr. Dahir Mootish J. Alenaze discussed...
ASTANA – The Special Economic Zone “Park of Innovative Technologies” (SEZ PIT) was the Asia-Pacific category winner in fDi’s Global Free Zones of the Year 2017. Experts...
ASTANA – Kazakh native Dimash Niyazov, a boxer by day and New York City policeman by night, recently defeated American Agustin Mauras, reported vesti.kz. The pair appeared...
ASTANA – This year Kazakhstan and Japan are celebrating the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the countries. The Astana Times interviewed Nazerke Dautbayeva, manager of the...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is planning to launch a pilot programme incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in oncology treatment by the end of this year. The technology will help...
ASTANA – The names of Kazakhstan’s newest charity givers were announced in October. Altyn Zhurek awards ceremony at Abay State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Almaty....
ASTANA – More than 50 companies from Kazakhstan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and Uzbekistan exhibited products including agricultural machinery and equipment, irrigation technologies, fertilisers, protective equipment for...
ASTANA – The Civil Aviation Committee, which recently reported the number of transit flights (indirect flights with a connection) through Kazakh airspace has grown by 5.2 percent,...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev addressed the Astana Club, a neutral platform to debate public issues based on Chatham House rules, during its Nov. 13 third...
Vladimir Norov, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan and current Director of the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of the Republic of...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan won one gold, one silver and four bronze medals at the ASBC (Asian Boxing Confederation) Women’s Boxing Championships, held Nov. 2-8 in Ho Chi...
ASTANA – Bill Ruh, CEO of GE Digital and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of GE, lectured at Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business Nov. 14 about the...
ASTANA – The capital is serving as the host Nov. 14-17 for the South-South Development Exchange on Economic Diversification and Industrialisation in Africa symposium in line with...
ASTANA – EXPO 2017 may have concluded, but that doesn’t mean the grounds have become a ghost town. Once the international pavilions have been reconstructed, the vacated...
ASTANA – More than 60 participants from 28 countries, including prominent politicians, scholars and leading experts, spoke about global policy issues requiring resolution, sanctions confrontations and prospects...
ASTANA –Astana Opera House principal soloist and Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Sundet Baigozhin will soon be signing a contract with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, reported the...
ASTANA – Dmitry Govorkov, a teacher at Kostanai Construction College, has an interesting hobby. He creates carnival masks, notebooks and jewellery boxes in steampunk style, using mechanisms...
ASTANA – The life and works of Kazakhstan’s most famous poet were celebrated Oct. 29 as the Abai Social Trust Foundation held its fifth annual Abai Keshi (Abai’s...
ASTANA – LendEx financial-tech (fintech) start-up plans to initiate an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) using the Ethereum platform based on block chain technology. The investments will be...
ASTANA – Participants in the Nov. 10 13th European Union – Central Asia Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan adopted a joint communiqué reconfirming mutual commitment to...
President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s article “Course towards the future: modernising Kazakhstan’s identity” is well written and should be of great interest to many around the world. He displays a...
ASTANA – The Global Shapers community empowers youth and contributes to driving change and action to address salient local issues. Former capital hub curator Aiman Yedigeyeva and...
ASTANA – An international forum on developing Kazakh pilgrim tourism and popularising sacred places is planned for next year near the Turgai geoglyphs, said deputy head of...
ASTANA – Kazakh Vice Minister of Labour and Social Security Svetlana Zhakupova recently explained the upcoming changes in the country’s pension system. Solidarity pension will rise by...
ASTANA – The issues of Kazakhstan’s identity relating to how it sees itself, its future and its place in the world are drawing increased interest among scholars...
ASTANA – Foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan signed Nov. 10 in Samarkand a programme of cooperation between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of...
ASTANA – A number of interstate, intergovernmental, regional and commercial documents were signed Nov. 9 at the 14th Forum of Interregional Cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia in...
ASTANA – Kazakh and Chinese customs authorities agreed during Nov. 6-8 meetings in Beijing to launch a platform to better control vehicles, goods and individuals on the...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s digital economy development programme and opportunities for IT activities were presented Nov.6-7 at the Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon. Deputy Prime Minister Askar Zhumagaliyev...
ASTANA – Nurlan Sauranbayev has been appointed new Akim (Mayor) of Shymkent, the third largest city in Kazakhstan. He replaced Gabidulla Abdrakhimov, who was appointed Secretary of...
ASTANA – Crown Agents, one of the world’s leading experts in strategic decision-making for public sector management which has been operating for more than 185 years with...
ASTANA – The Kazakhstan-United Kingdom Investment Forum became the venue Nov. 8 for discussing Kazakhstan’s vast investment opportunities and signing a number of documents between the nations’...
ASTANA – As part of the Believe in the Dream! Project, the Kazpravda.kz online edition team gave Anatoly “Tolik” Oleinik, a boy living in an Astana orphanage,...
ASTANA – EXPO 2017 ended in September but Kazakhstan’s eight-floor, spherical national expo pavilion will remain open as the Museum of the Future, showcasing alternative energy technology....
ASTANA – Members of the Japanese Cultural Mission visited Astana Nov. 3-7 as part of a larger project commemorating 25 years of diplomatic and cultural relations between...
ASTANA – Armada Zouk, sublabel of famous Dutch music label Armada, recently compiled its list of the most talented acts under the banner ADE Talents 2017. Farleon...
ASTANA – A bas-relief masterpiece created 49 years ago was recently unveiled in the Arman Cinema in Almaty. The work of art was discovered by theatre director...
ASTANA – Kazakh Minister of National Economy Timur Suleimenov spoke about the current state of private-public partnerships (PPP) and resulting policy measures during the Nov. 7 government...
On the eve of the ministerial meeting between European Commissions Vice President and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and five Central...
ASTANA – More than 720,000 citizens will receive free vocational education by 2021, officials announced Saturday, Nov. 7 government meeting. “The project Free Vocational and Technical Education...
ASTANA – Kazakh Minister for Internal Affairs Kalmukhanbet Kassymov and First Vice Minister for Agriculture Kairat Aituganov reported on flood prevention and mitigation measures undertaken by the...
ASTANA – Founded as a small fishing village, Atyrau has developed into one of Kazakhstan’s biggest industrial cities and is now known as an oil capital of...
ASTANA – Aktau, one of Kazakhstan’s youngest cities on the Caspian Sea, offers memorable beach resorts, theatres and night life. Brief History Known as Aktau from 1961-1963,...
ASTANA – Early age education and preschool programmes affect a child’s future academic performance and health. The number of children’s centres and kindergartens in Kazakhstan is growing...
ASTANA – A recently released European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) report forecasts Kazakhstan’s economy will grow 3.8 percent this year and 3.5 percent in 2018....
ASTANA – FC Astana came out on top of Kazakhstan’s Premier League for the fourth time in a row with a 2-0 victory over Akzhayik of Uralsk...
ASTANA – TrackTeamAstana’s Nikita Panassenko, a 25-year-old rider on the Kazakh national team, beat some of the world’s best cyclists to win the men’s points race in...
NETANYA – In the fourth round of the UEFA Europa League’s group stage, FC Astana secured its first away win in a group tournament of a European...
ASTANA – The Council of Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) reached agreements during its Nov. 3 meeting in Tashkent defining and sharing...
ASTANA – The Kazakh and Korean Friendship Garden opened recently in the capital signifies the harmonious cooperation and long friendship between the countries. The project was initiated...
ASTANA – While studying in the United States, Karaganda siblings Farida Gabbasova and Zhanibek Gabbasov missed the tastes of home. To treat themselves and others to their...
ASTANA – On a recent visit to Astana, Peter Burian, European Union Special Representative for Central Asia, spoke with The Astana Times Oct. 30 about the key...
ASTANA – The Oct. 29-30 latest round of Syrian peace talks in Astana, the seventh in what is known as the Astana Process meant to supplement UN-brokered...
When King Abdullah II of Jordan paid an official visit to Kazakhstan on November 1 and met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev, both sides discussed bilateral relations, mainly...
ASTANA – King Abdullah II of Jordan was awarded the Nazarbayev Prize for a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World and Global Security during his Nov. 1 official visit to Kazakhstan....
ASTANA – Kazakh chemist Gabit Nurumbetov, the principal scientist for Medherant, the U.K.-based company that produces next-generation drug delivery patches, has invented a new device for testing...
ASTANA – The 826-km Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway route launched operations Oct. 30 with an opening ceremony at the Baku International Sea Trade Port in Baku, Azerbaijan, according...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor General’s Office has reopened the investigation into the death of prominent banker Yerzhan Tatishev, who was shot during a hunt in December 2004....
ASTANA – Kazakh mezzo-soprano Dina Khamzina will perform the title role in “Carmen” at the Astana Opera. The premier of the George Bizet classic will be staged...
ASTANA – Eighteen additional industrial projects worth 399 billion tenge (US$1.19 billion) are expected to be launched in a Dec. 6 teleconference involving President Nursultan Nazarbayev. They...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan was ranked 36th on the Doing Business 2018 report released Oct. 31, one point lower compared with last year’s ranking. In separate instances, however,...
ASTANA – A venture fund providing early financing for start-ups will be created based on the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), said Ministry of Education and Science...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev thanked the United Arab Emirates for its support during an Oct. 24 meeting in Abu Dhabi with the Crown Prince of...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree Oct. 26 to change the existing Kazakh alphabet to Latin-based script. The corresponding document was published Oct. 27...
ASTANA – The World Bank marked International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Oct. 27 with the storytelling event “Talking for Change.” A number of compassionate speakers...
There is much to see and much to learn for legal tourists nowadays – when travelling in what Europeans use to designate as the East, but also...
ASTANA – The Association of Businesswomen of Kazakhstan presented a project to introduce gender budgeting in the nation at the Oct. 25 roundtable involving representatives of the...
ASTANA – The Kazakh national team is training for the Asian Boxing Confederation (ASBC) Women’s Boxing Championships, to be held Nov. 2-10 in Ho Chi Minh City,...
ASTANA –The Eurasian Intergovernmental Council (EIC), bringing together the heads of government of EAEU member states, signed agreements Oct. 25 in Yerevan advancing Eurasian Economic Union efforts...
ASTANA – Yandex, Russia’s largest technology company, launched its Yandex.Lyceum computer programming educational programme in early October in physics and mathematics schools in the capital and Almaty....
If the territory of all 26 member states was painted on the world map in one colour, it would cover the space from the Pacific Ocean to...
ASTANA – The Astana city government recently announced a custom architectural town planning contest for the development of a sketch idea for the Oriental City facility. The...
Central Asia is a dynamic and fast-changing region. Over the past couple of decades, it has shown that increased regional cooperation is indispensable to achieving development goals....
Before I came to Kazakhstan in 2011 as the Ambassador of Germany, I had been an ambassador to a big African country, which gained its independence in...
At the present time, issues of stabilisation of the situation in Afghanistan draw the attention of the entire international community. Long-term stability of the Central Asian region...
ASTANA – Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) recently opened a China Studies Centre in the Library of the First President of Kazakhstan. “This morning ...
ASTANA – The popularity of cryptocurrencies, and the scepticism around them, are, paradoxically, on the rise. In an interview with The Astana Times, Nazarbayev University School of...
ASTANA – The Autonomous Cluster Fund “Park of Innovative Technologies” has opened a representative office in Russia’s Skolkovo Technopark to support cooperation between Kazakh and Russian high...
The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) signed a memorandum of cooperation in October with EXANTE, a Maltese technology investment company, signalling their intention to cooperate on new...
ASTANA – OECD Eurasia Week under the theme Openness for Shared Prosperity took place in Almaty Oct. 23-25 for the first time outside the organisation’s headquarters in...
ASTANA – The one millionth tonne of cargo left Kuryk port Oct. 19 for the Azerbaijani port of Baku. The Kuryk port, launched in December, is under...
ASTANA – Kazakhfilm has begun shooting the second season of its large-scale historical series about the Kazakh Khanate. The project, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and...
ASTANA – The international forum “Kazakhstan’s Way to Space: Realities and Prospects-2017,” held Oct. 19 in the capital, commemorated 60 years since the launch of the first...
ASTANA – The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will be creating a common photobank available to member states. The idea was approved at the 23rd CIS Heads...
ASTANA – Kazakh farmers harvested 21.9 million tonnes of grain this year for a yield of 14.3 quintals per hectare. The harvesting area increased by 1.1 billion...
ASTANA – Konstantin Khabensky, a popular Russian actor who is known for his kind heart and his unsuccessful fight to save his wife’s life from cancer, shared...
ASTANA – The Transforma cultural space opened in Almaty Oct. 21 with the premiere of “B.O.Q.” staged by Laboratory No.316, an independent theatrical company. The multidisciplinary site...
