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NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will start the construction of the Children’s Center for Creative Development named after Kurmangazy next month in the city of Fuzuli in Azerbaijan, said President Kassym-Jomart...
NUR-SULTAN – There is a growing consensus in Kazakhstan that women’s political engagement improves the quality of life, said Deputy of the Senate, the upper chamber of the Kazakh...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed the declaration on strengthening strategic relations and deepening allied interaction and the comprehensive program to develop...
NUR-SULTAN – Pope Francis will conduct an open-air holy mass for Roman Catholics and representatives of other religions and confessions on Sept. 14 in Nur-Sultan, reported the press service...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev during his first official visit to Baku as the head of state on Aug. 24, Akorda’s...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) national railway company and Baku International Sea Trade Port, the largest port of the Caspian sea, signed a memorandum of cooperation in logistics...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Ministry of Internal Affairs changed the restrictive measures for 421 suspects with no criminal record to non-custodial measures, said the ministry’s head of the investigative...
NUR-SULTAN – Quality and effective distribution of financial resources are necessary for national budget planning, said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during the meeting with Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov, Head of...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan plans to establish the Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Ministry of Foreign Affairs has posted a draft of the relevant presidential...
NUR-SULTAN – The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) temporarily suspended the operation of two single point moorings, SPM-1 and SPM-2, after the defects were discovered in subsea hose attachments to...
NUR-SULTAN – Chairman of Russia’s Muftis Council and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin said that the upcoming seventh Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is a key partner of the European Union (EU) in Central Asia, said Christian Sagartz, Vice-Chair of the European Parliament (EP) Sub-Committee on Human Rights, during...
NUR-SULTAN – The demand for loans from businesses is witnessing a significant rise, despite the continued growth in the cost of credit resources and some tightening of loan conditions,...
NUR-SULTAN – Young professionals and industry researchers will gather on Sept. 29 – Oct. 2 for the seventh World Petroleum Council (WPC) Youth Forum to discuss energy transition at...
NUR-SULTAN – The drama “Life” by Kazakh filmmaker Emir Baigazin will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September this year. The film will be presented as part of...
NUR-SULTAN – Chairman of Russia’s Council of Muftis and Spiritual Administration of Muslims Mufti sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin confirmed his participation in the seventh Congress of Leaders of World and...
NUR-SULTAN – The National Museum of Kazakhstan invites visitors to explore the “Traditions and Time” exhibition of decorative and applied art, which opened on Aug. 20 in Nur-Sultan, reported...
NUR-SULTAN – The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us many lessons. People can have different opinions and views, but joining efforts to lend a helping hand for a common cause...
NUR-SULTAN – Former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov visited the Kazakh capital on Aug. 21 to participate in the Eagle Fighting Championship EFC 50, commonly known as Eagle FC....
Editor’s Note: In the run-up to the seventh Congress of Leaders of the World and Traditional Religions to be held on Sept.14-15 in Nur-Sultan, The Astana Times has started...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Baiterek Holding purchased Sberbank’s subsidiary in Kazakhstan after a deal that was signed on Aug. 18, reported Kapital.kz. Baiterek and Sberbank negotiated the purchase of the...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s deposit market increased by 3.3 percent over a month in July with total citizen deposits topping 28 trillion tenge (US$58.2 billion), according to National Bank data....
NUR-SULTAN – The Nur-Sultan Akimat (city administration) announced plans to plant some 600 hardwood trees at an eco-park near Small Taldykol lake (Malyi Taldykol) on Aug. 28, following the...
NUR-SULTAN – The Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK) recently published a video on its Instagram, where a baby eagle feeds on prey brought to it...
NUR-SULTAN – The increasing number of hamsters in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan speaks to the favorable environmental situation in the city, a research scientist at the Association for the...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh landscape is famous not only for its picturesque nature and rich natural resources but also for its diverse archaeological monuments, which help us understand the...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi on Aug. 19 to intensify bilateral ties that this year...
NUR-SULTAN – The secretaries of the Security Councils of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) focused on addressing security and stability issues in the SCO region during their 17th meeting...
NUR-SULTAN – The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should develop a coordinated mechanism to combat transnational crime, said Kazakh Internal Affairs Minister Marat Akhmetzhanov at the fourth meeting of SCO...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh filmmakers Aizhan Kassymbek and Alisher Zhadigerov received awards for their feature films at the One Sixth International Film Festival of Debut Films, held Aug. 12-17 in...
NUR-SULTAN – Petropavlovsk airport plans to launch flights to Shymkent, Turkistan, Russia’s Tyumen and Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh, said Valikhan Dzhilisbayev, director of Kyzylzhar International Airport LLP, Kazinform reported...
NUR-SULTAN – There are no grounds for making pessimistic forecasts regarding the future of Kazakh-Russian cooperation, said President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during his Aug. 19 meeting with President...
NUR-SULTAN – While the development of cooperation and integration in Central Asia will benefit its economies and people, the road ahead is long, challenging and bumpy. Experts from Central...
NUR-SULTAN – Vietnam confirmed its participation in the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, which will be held in October this year in Nur-Sultan during...
NUR-SULTAN – Nine automobile and one railway checkpoints on the Eurasian Economic Union’s (EAEU) external border, as well as the Main Dispatch Department of the Kazakh Finance Ministry’s State...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev welcomed the decision of Chevron-led Tengizchevroil (TCO) to redirect an additional 2.6 billion cubic meters of gas to the domestic market at an Aug....
NUR-SULTAN – The mortality rate in Kazakhstan dropped by 9.6 percent in the first half of 2022 compared to the previous year, according to recent data from the Bureau...
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has triggered some major shifts in the supply chains of West Europe, Eurasia, Central Asia, Caucasus and South Asia. This shuffle of the supply chain has...
NUR-SULTAN – The U.S. Mission in partnership with the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC) launched the Academy of Women Entrepreneurs program (AWE) on Aug.18 to support women entrepreneurs in...
NUR-SULTAN – The position of Children’s Rights Commissioner will be established in all regions of Kazakhstan, reported the Ministry of Education on Aug. 17. Seven regions have already appointed...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Export Chairman Aslan Kaligazin signed bilateral agreements with the major banks of Tajikistan to foster cooperation and increase the exports of non-commodity goods from Kazakhstan, reported...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will meet with President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Aug. 19 as part of the working visit to Sochi, reported the Akorda’s press...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov and TAV Airports CEO Serkan Kaptan discussed the construction of a new international terminal at the Almaty airport at an Aug. 17...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is hosting the first Central Asian Volunteers Forum on Aug. 15-19 with the national level kicking off today in the country’s capital Nur-Sultan. The forum, organized...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGas (KMG) oil and gas company seeks to develop bilateral cooperation with Azerbaijan’s SOCAR energy company in connection to the trans-Caspian infrastructure development. This was announced...
NUR-SULTAN – Vice President of the Genertec International Holdings Wu Yi announced plans to open a regional office in Kazakhstan to boost investment cooperation with the Commonwealth of Independent...
NUR-SULTAN – The export of non-primary goods from Kazakhstan increased by 33.5 percent in the first half of this year and topped out at $12 billion, according to QazTrade,...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is ranked 73rd out of 112 countries with visa-free visits to 76 countries available to passport-holders, according to the Henley Passport Index (HPI) 2022 Global Ranking....
NUR-SULTAN – Singapore is interested in seeking new economic opportunities with Kazakhstan by exploring markets and export routes, after the two-day visit of the Kazakh delegation led by Deputy...
NUR-SULTAN – The special Presidential Literary Award will be established next year to support young Kazakh writers and poets, announced Kazakh Minister of Culture and Sports Dauren Abayev during...
