- Thursday, 2 April, 2026
- Almaty 66 °F / 19 °C
- Astana 52 °F / 11 °C
ASTANA – A capital couple recently welcomed more than just a daughter into their lives. Saida Mukhamedyarova, born 1 am, July 4 in the city’s perinatal centre...
ASTANA – Creative dombra player Andrey Fendrikov’s ties with Kazakh culture and people have been emerging for generations, as he traces his interest in the instrument to...
We have all experienced how uncomfortable it can be when mutual friends are in conflict. No matter how trivial the dispute, life becomes more difficult as you...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan plans to begin exporting cars to Russia and Central Asian countries over the next several years. Car production in the country will be localised...
ASTANA – A group of oil companies led by Chevron have approved a $36.8 billion plan to boost production at Kazakhstan’s Tengiz oil field, the largest oil...
Manager General of the Barys hockey club Alexander Koreshkov spoke recently on the new policy of the club and the team’s objectives for the KHL coming season...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan has established a large-scale production of plastic pipes used for water supply, as pressure pipes for hydroelectric power plants, and in pumping stations, aqueducts...
ASTANA – Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov participated July 4 in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Foreign Ministers Council held in Yerevan, Armenia. The main objective...
ASTANA – International rating agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed National Company KazMunayGas’s (NC KMG) Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BBB’ with a Stable Outlook, according...
ASTANA – Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov answered questions at the Central Communication Service (CCS) briefing July 5 devoted to Kazakhstan’s non-permanent membership in the UN Security...
It is no understatement to say that the news that Kazakhstan had been successful in its bid to attain a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited June 30 and was introduced to the work at the capital’s transport and logistics hub, GLB home construction factory, Tulpar Talgo...
ASTANA – Summer weekends are perfect for spending time with family and savouring great outdoor activities like horseback riding. Contact with the horse has a calming effect...
ASTANA – Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov talked about foreign policy economisation, the country’s role in nuclear non-proliferation, election to the UN Security Council and the new...
President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited socially and economically important enterprises in Astana on June 30. The head of state inspected Astana Transport and Logistics Centre, where he toured...
ASTANA – “The Plague at the Karatas Village,” a Kazakh film directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, will be shown at the Lima Independiente International Film Festival in Peru....
ASTANA – The Almaty Bike automated system is scheduled to launch Sept.12, said Velocity.kz Public Fund President Almagul Kassymova. The rental price is expected to be the...
ASTANA – Kazakh radio host Mukhamedali Bukharbayev was awarded the “Oscar for the Radio Hosts” at the international competition in Moscow. The event, known as “We Speak...
ASTANA – Following Kazakhstan’s election to a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a two-year term starting Jan. 1, 2017, Kazakh Foreign Minister...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev called Kazakhstan’s election as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2017-2018 a “historic achievement.” “Kazakhstan’s election as a non-permanent member...
ASTANA – The challenges and implementation of the industrial Internet were the main topics of discussion June 28 during a conference at the Nazarbayev Centre. The conference,...
ASTANA – More teachers in Kazakhstan will be getting second degrees in English as part of the country’s effort announced in the spring by Minister of Education...
ASTANA – Four Kazakh clubs have entered another qualification campaign to reach the Union of European Football Associations Champions League and the Europa League. Last week, the...
NEW YORK – After a gruelling six-year campaign which took Kazakh leaders and diplomats and introduced Kazakhstan to far flung corners of the world, from Europe to...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s boxer, bronze medalist of the 2012 London Olympics Ivan Dychko has returned from Austria, where he spent two weeks training at the invitation of...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan just missed in its effort to move up to Group 2 of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Grand Prix, losing the crucial match to...
ASTANA – Weekend courses on the Kazakh language have begun in a primary school in Maryland with the support of the Kazakh-American Association and the Kazakh diaspora...
ASTANA – The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and EXPO 2017 plan to hold a joint conference on “Tourism and the Energy of the Future” in...
ASTANA – Divided by almost 4,000 kilometres, Kazakhstan and Slovakia are each located in the heart of their regions. Both young, former members of big unions, the...
ASTANA – North Kazakhstan region is seeking to maximise its unique potential to develop the areas of agriculture and tourism, the region’s deputy akim (governor) Mukhtar Mankeyev...
ASTANA – The Has Sanat art gallery in Astana displays an eclectic mix of foreign and local artists to capital residents – but beyond being just a...
ASTANA – Capital Day will be more like capital two and a-half weeks, as an array of concerts, festivals, sporting events and shows are scheduled June 20-July...
Winter in Astana has its own special attractions. But there are very few of us who live here who don’t look forward to the chance to feel...
ASTANA – Argentine pianist and Geneva Conservatory of Music honourary professor Luis Ascot presented a concert at the Astana Opera Chamber Hall June 16 featuring works by...
Zero to One, a Kazakh mobile app company, has announced plans to train no fewer than 1,000 professional developers and create at least 1,000 iOS and Android...
ASTANA – Director of the Miloserdie (“Mercy”) Volunteer Society, social activist, actress, producer and TV presenter Aruzhan Sain, 40, is one the most famous and successful women...
ASTANA – Heads of the Supreme Courts of South Korea and Kazakhstan discussed reforms, cooperation and exchanging experience in a meeting June 24 in Astana. Chief Justice...
ASTANA – The Atameken Business Channel, now broadcasting online and on television from Astana and Almaty, is the country’s first multimedia business news channel. The ABCTV.kz internet...
ASTANA – The English-speaking Kazakh TV staff recently unveiled what it is like to be a television host, the cultural shocks of being a foreign journalist in...
A delegation from the World Aerospace Committee met recently in Khartoum, Sudan with representatives of Sunacs to open negotiations concerning data transmission from the space remote sensing...
ASTANA – President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Tashkent to participate in a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), where discussions focused on cooperating to counter terrorism and...
ASTANA – The manifest “The World. The 21st Century” and his nation’s moral right to advance such proposals was one of the topics addressed by Kazakh President...
ASTANA – The Parliament of Kazakhstan has recommended changing the Business Road Map 2020 programme to exclude subsidies for business entities engaged in the non-manufacturing sector, including...
ASTANA – For city residents who want to escape the urban setting for a weekend or visit a quiet place with picturesque nature, Zerenda can be a...
ASTANA – Outlook into the Future: Actual Heritage opened June 23 at the Kazakh National Museum. The museum, the youngest and biggest in Central Asia, was created...
Representatives of the Kazakh Supreme Court, the Union of Judges of Kazakhstan, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the American Bar Association Rule of Law...
On June 28, the UN General Assembly votes to select new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. A star in promoting a more peaceful world, Kazakhstan...
There was a time when it was strongly feared that space would become the next international battleground. Following the race to put a man into space, its...
ASTANA – National Bank Chairman Daniyar Akishev recently spoke at a government meeting about using pension assets to stimulate economic growth and employment in 2016 and 2017....
ASTANA – A website created under the Kazakhstan without Orphans project is hoping to assist the nation towards that goal. Usynovite.kz, (which stands for Adopt.kz) established by DOM...
ASTANA – Recent publications have revealed more to the general public about the participation of Kazakhs in European resistance movements during World War II, in particular about...
ASTANA – Summer is the time for outdoor activities with friends and family. The capital’s green city parks are the perfect place for enjoying some alone time....
At the beginning of June 2016, I got acquainted with “The World. The 21st Century,” the manifesto of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev....
At a time when, as many oil exporting countries, Kazakhstan has been hit by the depreciation of oil prices, the agricultural sector is one of the most...
ASTANA – More than 40 artists and media art leaders from Kazakhstan and Russia are slated to participate July 4-6 in the Astana Art Fest, organised with...
ASTANA – From the hydrogen bomb to anthrax, anything that could threaten the peaceful co-existence of humanity, was discussed June 20 at the international conference devoted to...
ASTANA – Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Michel Sidibe announced June 22 plans to establish a subregional office in Kazakhstan that will become...
In the current year, the volume of industrial goods and services in the capital amounted to 145.5 billion tenge (US$428.3 million). Since the beginning of the year,...
ASTANA – Member of the Finance and Budget Committee of Mazhilis Yekaterina Nikitinskaya asked Prime Minister Karim Massimov about the National Fund’s savings during a June 17...
This solution to grant more countries visa-free regime will increase the inflow of foreign tourists during the major international event EXPO 2017. This statement was made during...
ASTANA – The Embassy of India in Astana organised special events to celebratethe second International Day of Yoga in Astana and Almaty on June 19. Karaganda is...
ASTANA – The Green Bus Company bought 35 new buses of the brand Daewoo that use environmentally friendly fuel – compressed natural gas (methane). Qazaq Banki has...
ASTANA – With her blossoming book project, I Book You, Marina Sharipova hopes to get her country reading. I Book You (ibookyou.kz) is a non-commercial project about...
ASTANA – The Presidential Administration will have a new chief and Astana a new mayor and following a June 21 presidential decree on these and other personnel...
Kazakhstan plans to start production of VanHool buses based on the technology of the Belgian company which annually manufactures approximately 1,400 buses and coaches and as many...
ASTANA – Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Erlan Idrissov presented detailed information about the current activities of the ministry and highlighted prospective tasks of Kazakh diplomacy in...
ASTANA – A new digital application “Kazakhstan – Land of the Great Steppe” was presented June 20 by Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Erlan Idrissov during his...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Saint Petersburg, Russia to participate in the 20th International Economic Forum and hold a series of bilateral meetings. Russian President Vladimir Putin...
ASTANA – The June 17 joint session of Parliament’s upper and lower chambers reviewed and approved the government report on the successful execution of the 2015 national...
There are plenty of clouds on the horizon for the global economy, as the World Bank’s latest outlook report has confirmed. Looking at what has happened over...
Over the last few years, international relations have been going through a difficult period and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), which...
ASTANA – The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has reported that as a result of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) reanalyses of samples from the 2012 London Games,...
In less than one year – on June 10, 2017 – the international specialised exhibition EXPO 2017 under the theme of Future Energy will open its doors to...
ASTANA – Construction of a new district in Shymkent aims to develop the city as the third major city of the state under the order of Kazakhstan...
ASTANA – Capital resident Olzhas Onalov, 24, received an invitation to the EXPO 2017 chairman’s office after making the first online ticket purchase to the event. Akhmetzhan...
VIENNA – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov took part in a ministerial meeting commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) during...
ASTANA – Five Almaty men formed an uneasy human chain to rescue a dog that fell into Sairan Reservoir and could not escape due to the steep...
ASTANA – Kazakh Secretary of State and National Commission for Women’s Affairs, Family and Demographic Policy Chair Gulshara Abdykalikova made a working visit to Warsaw to take...
ASTANA – Chevron’s contribution to science and technology development in Kazakhstan is designed to create opportunities for students and young researchers to develop their professional and academic...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev chaired a meeting of the Security Council of Kazakhstan in the Akorda presidential residence June 10 to assess the June 5 terrorist...
ASTANA – Kazakh security officials announced June 12 that they have killed or arrested all suspects involved in the June 5 attacks in Aktobe city and have...
ASTANA – Political analysts and experts say overcoming threats by extremists can be achieved with joint efforts and call upon all Kazakh people to be alert and...
High-ranking diplomats from 35 African countries, representatives of the African Union and United Nations Development Programme’s Global Centre for Public Service Excellence gathered June 7-8 in Addis...
The names of winners of the Batyr Arular Second National Contest of Female Soldiers were recently announced. Eighty participants competed for the right to be called the...
ASTANA – Approximately 600,000 tenge (US$1,800) was raised for children from orphanages in Atyrau region June 4 during the Abai Keshi charity gala dinner. The event, dedicated...
ASTANA – Thirty-five-thousand tonnes of oil will be produced at the Kashagan field in December, announced Kazakh Minister of Energy Kanat Bozumbayev during a recent public briefing....
ASTANA – Z Community, a project and educational platform for young people, proposes a new way for teenagers from 12–18 to spend their summer vacation: to join...
ASTANA – Next year’s launch of the Digital Kazakhstan 2020 state programme was announced June 9 during the SAP Forum. The results and goals of the strategic...
ASTANA – The General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan with the support of the European Union project “Enhancing Criminal Justice in Kazakhstan” organised a workshop May 26-28 for...
ASTANA – Uber has big plans for Kazakhstan and took its first step June 10 launching service in the capital. According to Deputy Akim (Mayor) Malika Bekturova,...
ASTANA – In an exclusive interview with The Astana Times, Aktobe bus conductor Aigul Zhumabayeva details how she and her husband, driver Murat Issekenov, were forced at...
ASTANA – Four more suspects in the June 5 Aktobe attacks were killed June 10 in a firefight with anti-terrorism forces in Aktobe after security forces surrounded...
Kazakhstan, a vital partner of Germany in Central Asia and one of the leading countries in the post-Soviet space, is celebrating this year the 25th anniversary of...
ASTANA – Social entrepreneurship is a global movement being successfully implemented in Kazakhstan. When small companies build values-driven businesses and identify themselves as social entrepreneurs, it has...
ASTANA – A regular meeting of the defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation took place in the Kazakh capital June 8, the Defence Ministry of Kazakhstan...
ASTANA – The anniversary 20th expedition devoted to the Day of Kazakhstan State Symbols kicked off recently in National Museum. Members of Assembly of the People of...
ASTANA – On June 3, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) Express and Croatian shipyard ULJANIK signed a shipbuilding contract for the construction of one wagon carrier with a...
ASTANA – The Council of Heads of Governments of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) discussed cooperationin the spheres of economy, industry, energy, innovations and health care,...
Nazarbayev Says June 5 Terrorist Attacks Organised by “Supporters of Radical Pseudo-Religious Movements” ASTANA – June 9 has been declared the National Day of Mourning dedicated to...
The terrible events in Aktobe on 5 June have once again demonstrated that no country – not even a society as stable as Kazakhstan – is immune...
