Tokayev Inspects Areas in Turkestan Region Damaged by May Floods

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the Myrzakent district in the Turkestan Region that suffered from floods in May during his visit to the region, reported Akorda press...


Kazakh President Visits Arys One Year After Ammo Depot Accident

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the town of Arys in the Turkestan Region on Aug. 20 and checked in on the places that have gone through reconstruction...


Kazakh Military Doctors Treat Patients Caught in Blast in Lebanon

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh military doctors are currently in Lebanon providing medical care to people who suffered from a devastating blast in Beirut, reported Kazakh Defense Ministry press service.  The...


Kazakh President Instructs Government to Step Up Fight Against Corruption 

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stressed the importance of tightening measures to fight corruption in the country during a meeting that explored the government’s efforts to curb corruption,...


Kazakh Officials Brief Diplomatic Missions on COVID-19 Situation 

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Healthcare Minister Alexey Tsoy and Kazakh Foreign Ministry briefed the diplomatic missions in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan on the latest government efforts to fight...


Kazakhstan To Launch New Electric Bus Plant in Karaganda Region

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will launch a new plant to produce Yutong Chinese passenger buses in December in Saran, the Karaganda Region, the Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development...


Council on Environmental Education, New Green School Curriculum to Be Established in Kazakhstan

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources Magzum Mirzagaliyev announced plans to establish a coordinating council on environmental education, the ministry’s press service reported on...


Kazakh Foreign Ministry to Create Agency to Systematize KazAID

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) plans to form an agency to systematize official development assistance (ODA) from Kazakhstan to Central Asian countries, the ministry explained...


Kazakhstan’s Nur Otan Ruling Party Begins Registration For Primaries

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s ruling party Nur Otan has kicked off registration to the party’s first primaries scheduled for Oct. 1-3, reported Nur Otan press service. The registration will last...


Kazakh Government to Provide 1.22 Million People With Jobs, Says Labor and Social Protection Minister

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government will provide jobs for 1.22 million people in total with the help of state programs by the end of the year, said Minister of...


Kazakh Diplomats Donate 150 Laptops to School Students To Ensure Access to Education During Extended Quarantine

NUR-SULTAN – The Association of Kazakh diplomats recently raised 26 million tenge (US$62,256.6) and purchased 150 personal computers for children from low-income families, reported the Kazakh Foreign Ministry’s press...


Kazakhstan Eases Travel Restrictions but COVID-19 Test Still a Must for Travelers from Poland, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan has updated the regulations for passengers arriving in the country, according to the latest decree of the nation’s chief sanitary doctor.  The document categorizes different countries...


Kazakh Embassy Employees Participate in Bike for Peace Anti-Nuclear Action in Norway

NUR-SULTAN – Employees of the Kazakh Embassy in Norway took part in a bike ride in support of a world without nuclear weapons which was organized by the Bike...


Kazakhstan’s Presidential Youth Cadre Reserve to Enter New Selection Round in 2021

NUR-SULTAN  – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has instructed his government to start the second selection round to the nation’s presidential youth personnel reserve in 2021, reported Akorda press service. ...


Kazakhstan’s Quality of Life, Happiness Levels Enter Top 50th Spot in the World 

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Statistics Committee annually conducts an acceptance sampling of households to estimate the Quality of Life of the Population. As of Aug. 11, the committee found...


Kazakh Plant Launches Domestic Computer Production to Equip School Students With Laptops

NUR-SULTAN – A Kazakh plant will now be tasked with supplying domestic laptops named ZiK computers as part of the governmental goal to ensure all school goers with means...


Archaeologists Uncover New Historical Finds Near Khoja Ahmed Yassawi Mausoleum

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh archaeologists have discovered historical objects on the territory of the Khoja Ahmed Yassawi mausoleum in the Turkestan Region, the Azret Sultan state historical and cultural reserve...


More Than 600 Kazakh Medical Organizations Resume Routine Medical Services as Corona Situation Stabilizes

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Social Health Insurance Fund published a list of medical organizations that will be resuming their work with opening dates, the fund’s press service reported. The...


Startup Funds Experience Dynamic Growth in Kazakhstan, Offers Advanced Solutions to Modern Needs

NUR-SULTAN – Startup companies in Kazakhstan showed a positive growth trend and have attracted about 5 billion tenge (US$11 million) of investments in the first half of 2020, Pavel...


Kazakhstan’s Journey Towards Economic Diversification

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President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Congratulates Kazinform With 100-Years Anniversary of Reporting

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev congratulated the Kazinform state news agency on their 100th anniversary, reported inform.kz. The news agency started Aug. 13 in 1920 as the first...


Kazakhstan to Partially Lift Quarantine Restrictions Starting Aug. 17

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will lift lockdown restrictions on Aug. 17, according to the decision of the state commission chaired by Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin.  During their Aug. 13...


Chairman of Kazakhstan’s Security Council Meets with Prime Minister to Discuss Further Economic Development

NUR-SULTAN – The Chairman of the Security Council, Nursultan Nazarbayev, discussed the results of the country’s economic development over the last seven months and plans for the post-pandemic period...


Seventeen Senate Deputies Elected in Kazakhstan

NUR-SULTAN – Seventeen Senate deputies from the nation’s 14 regions and cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty and Shymkent were elected to the Senate, an upper chamber of the Kazakh Parliament...


Kazakhstan to Resume Flights With Seven Countries Starting Aug. 17

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will resume flights to Belarus, Egypt, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine starting Aug. 17, reported the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee. “In...


Kazakh Archeologists Find Ancient Khanaka Sufi Shrine in Turkestan

NUR-SULTAN – Scientists have found a khanaka, an ancient Sufi shrine, at the Kultobe settlement in Turkestan, during archaeological excavations, the press service of the Kazakh Research Institute of...


Central Asia to Cooperate With Japan to Modernize Economy

NUR-SULTAN – The heads of the foreign affairs agencies of Central Asia and Japan discussed prospects for cooperation to address the adverse effects of the pandemic on the Central...


Kazakh Healthcare Minister Visits Turkey to Meet With Counterpart

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Healthcare Minister Alexey Tsoy visited medical facilities in Ankara and met with Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca during the visit of the Kazakh delegation to Turkey,...


Abai’s Values Stand Test of Time, Says Kazakh President

NUR-SULTAN – As Kazakhstan celebrated the Day of Abai for the first time on Aug. 10 by commemorating the 175th anniversary of a Kazakh poet and philosopher Abai Kunanbayev,...


Kazakh Senate Elections to Include 46 Candidates on Ballot

NUR-SULTAN –  Forty-six candidates will appear on the ballot in the elections to the Kazakh Senate, the upper house of the Parliament which is to be held Aug.12, the...


Kazakh Defence Minister Reports on Work of Armed Forces, Military Medical Cooperation With Russia

NUR-SULTAN – Over the course of the pandemic, the Kazakh Armed Forces have been directly engaging the enemy in the fight against the coronavirus infection. Kazakh Defense Minister Nurlan...


Kazakhstan and Turkey Discuss Flight Renewal After Abrupt Seizure Earlier in August

NUR-SULTAN – Following a presidential order, the Kazakh governmental delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Yeraly Tugzhanov arrived to resolve the issue of flight suspensions between Kazakhstan and Turkey...


Fifty-Six Kilometres in 13 Hours: Kazakh Athlete Swims Across Issyk-Kul Lake

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh athlete Vitaliy Hudyakov set a record by swimming 56 kilometres across the world’s second-largest mountain lake Issyk-Kul in 13 hours and 18 minutes, reported Kazakhstan’s National...


Respects for the Poet: Abai Kunanbayev is Lauded and Remembered in Moscow on his 175th Birthday

MOSCOW – Kazakstan’s Ambassador to Russia Yermek Kosherbayev paid his respect to the greatest Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbayev on the 175th anniversary of the Poet’s birth in the Semei...


Kazakh Talent Stuns American Audience With Series of Brilliant Performances

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh talents have been in the spotlight recently on popular U.S. televised talent shows in the last couple of years. Talent Recap, an independent talent show reviewer...


Kazakhstan Sends Special Military Medical Team to Beirut

NUR-SULTAN – A group of military doctors departed Aug. 8 to Lebanon from Aktau to provide medical aid to victims who suffered from a devastating blast in Beirut which...


UNICEF Monitors Mental Well-being of Children and Parents, Conducts Webinars for School Psychologists

NUR-SULTAN – More than 5,000 school psychologists and mental health specialists have been trained since April at the psychological assistance website initiated by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)...


Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: Abai and Kazakhstan in the 21st Century

Abai Kunanbayev left an indelible mark in our history as a philosopher, poet, educator,  translator, composer and founder of a new national literature. In his poems, songs and words...


Kazakhstan Fulfills OPEC+ Obligations, Goes Above and Beyond Expectation for July

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan has reduced its average oil production to 1.313 million barrels per day in July reaffirming its commitment to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreement,...


East Kazakhstan: Rich History, Birthplace of Abai and Plethora of Historical Sites

NUR-SULTAN – The East Kazakhstan region boasts to have 13 unique places included in the map of Kazakhstan’s sacred places. Sacred places are cultural heritage monuments, mausoleums and natural...


Growth of Manufacturing Industry Provides Kazakhstan With Resources to Fight Pandemic

In the last 10 years, there have been significant developments in Kazakhstan’s manufacturing industry. The main objective of the industrial renewal program was to develop the non-extractive sector of...


Kazakhstan Celebrates Abai Kunanbayev’s 175th Anniversary 

NUR-SULTAN – Today, Aug. 10, Kazakhstan is celebrating the 175th anniversary of a famous Kazakh poet and writer Abai Kunanbayev.  “Hardships come and go, but Abai’s poetry and works...


Atyrau Resident Transfers His Collection of Ancient Sarmatian Exhibits to Local Museum

NUR-SULTAN – Atyrau resident Rauan Sabirov donated dozens of archaeological exhibits to the Khan Ordaly Saraishyk museum complex in the Atyrau Region. The rarest and most valuable of Sabirov’s...


Human Trials for Kazakh COVID-19 Vaccine to Start in September

NUR-SULTAN – As the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine continues worldwide, the Kazakh Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems has announced a start date for human trials on the...


Kazakh President Asks Lebanese Counterpart to Ensure Safety of Kazakh Citizens in Beirut

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev asked Lebanese President Michel Aoun to ensure the safety of more than 200 Kazakh citizens including Kazakh UN peacekeeping contingent and diplomats in...


Kazakh Folk Music Project Wins British Council’s Big Idea Challenge

NUR-SULTAN – The “More Than Music” project became a country champion in the British Council’s global Creative Spark Big Idea Challenge. Martebe Abidilda, the author of “More than Music,”...


Abai Kunanbayev: The Man With The Whole Steppe on His Shoulders

People  have yet to understand and appreciate the works created by the Kazakh poet and philosopher Abai Kunanbayev.  In Kazakhstan, 2020 has been declared to be the year of...


Kazakh Citizens Stay Safe After Beirut Blast, Embassy to Be Restored, Says Kazakh FM

NUR-SULTAN – The Beirut blast damaged the Kazakh Embassy Office in Lebanon and lightly injured Kazakh Consul Baglan Spabek on Aug. 4 at 6 p.m. at the Beirut seaport...


Kazakhstan Wins Multi-Million Lawsuit Against Canadian Mining Company at International Arbitration Tribunal

NUR-SULTAN – The International Arbitration Tribunal issued a unanimous decision on the immunity and dismissal of the case initiated in 2016 by Gold Pool, a Canadian junior mining company,...


Library of Kazakhstan’s First President Opens Video Exhibition Dedicated to Abai

NUR-SULTAN – The Library of Kazakhstan’s First President – the Elbasy has launched the Legacy of Abai as a Moral Guideline virtual video exhibition dedicated to the 175th anniversary...