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ASTANA – Kazakh grandmaster Rinat Dzhumabayev defeated 2016 world vice-champion Sergey Karyakin during the fifth round of the 2019 World Team Chess Championship in the Kazakh capital. “It was...
ASTANA – Kazakh National Museum will present the Great Steppe: History and Culture exhibition featuring Altyn Adam (Golden Man) March 15-April 15 in Kazan, Tatarstan. The display is part...
ASTANA – As the series of exclusive interviews with the regional governors in Kazakhstan continues, Akim (Governor) of Kostanai region Arkhimed Mukhambetov describes the efforts of his administration aimed...
ASTANA – The Astana’s Barys Hockey Club beat Nizhny Novgorod’s Torpedo Hockey Club March 10 with a 3:2 score in the seventh game in a series of quarterfinals of...
Kazakhstan’s first national low-cost airline, Fly Arystan, will launch in the first half of the year, Kazakh Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Roman Sklyar told a March government...
Russian company 2GIS has launched a city information centre application for Atyrau, reports Kazinform. More than 9,000 social, cultural, residential and business facilities are included in the free mobile...
Kazakhstan and Austria agreed to strengthen cooperation in energy efficiency and the green economy as part of broader efforts to boost bilateral trade during the recent visit of an...
Investments in education increased 36.9 percent to 2.8 billion tenge (US$7.41 million) in January. Their share of total investments in equity was 0.4 percent. In 2018, against the general...
ASTANA – California native and Kazakh TV’s Discovering Kazakhstan host Dennis Keen has lived in Almaty for six years. It was in his adopted city that Soviet monumental art...
ASTANA – The number of flights between Kazakhstan and Tajikistan will increase from 18 to 32 per week this year, reports the Kazakh Ministry for Investment and Development’s Civil...
It is now well over four decades since the United Nations officially recognised March 8 as International Women’s Day. The annual event, which is marked around the world, has...
ASTANA – The number of home loans issued in Kazakhstan grew 18.9 percent in 2018 over 2017. The total portfolio of loans issued grew by 3 percent in the...
ASTANA – The Union of European Football Associations’ player of the season Bauyrzhan Islamkhan has been named one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces. Islamkhan has been playing sports since...
ASTANA – Finnish companies are interested in constructing waste treatment plants in Kazakhstan. The Kazakh Ministry of Energy plans to increase the waste recycling rate from the current 11.5...
ASTANA – Olga Andriyevskaya, founder and chair of the Bulgarian Zlata Cultural Centre in the capital, represents the fourth generation of Bulgarians living in Kazakhstan. She feels mutual respect...
ASTANA – Approximately 104 private organisations and 81 government organisations provide free government-sponsored healthcare to Almaty residents, said Social Health Insurance Fund director Tleukhan Abildayev at a March 5...
ASTANA – Using skis and ice skates, Norwegian William Byholt is in the midst of crossing Balkhash Lake in central Kazakhstan for the first time in the nation’s history....
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev met at the Akorda March 7 with Koktem Shuagy (Spring Light) women’s community representatives to congratulate the country’s female population on the International...
ASTANA – Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin reviewed March 2 improvements made to housing, education, medicine, transport, provision of power and water supply and street lighting on the outskirts...
ASTANA – Swim, bike, run. The national Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan triathlon federations joined to form the Central Asian Triathlon Association (CATA) at the March 3 meeting in the...
ASTANA – Tin stripping operations will begin in May at Syrymbet, Central Asia’s largest and Kazakhstan’s only tin deposit with an annual capacity of two million tonnes of ore,...
ASTANA – Thirty percent of municipal solid waste in the capital has the potential to be recycled and another 10 percent has the potential to be sorted to derive...
ASTANA – “The Kazakh Khanate. The Golden Throne” premiered Feb. 26 in the capital. The series, based on Ilyas Esenberlin’s novel “Diamond Sword,” retells the story of the struggle...
ASTANA – Kazakh National Bank is encouraging citizens who receive social benefits to open accounts to help them continue to receive benefits in case of overdue debt. Kazakh legislation...
ASTANA – The Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development has implemented an Economy of Simple Things, a new programme focused on developing light manufacturing and the construction and furniture...
ASTANA – Kazakh Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov stressed the need to find comprehensive solutions to the Palestinian problem, promote the Middle East peace process and stabilise Afghanistan during the...
ASTANA – The European Union is Kazakhstan’s biggest foreign investor, and Kazakhstan is the EU’s closest political and economic partner among the countries of Central Asia while EU-Kazakhstan cooperation...
ASTANA – Kazakh professional tennis player Alexander Bublik won March 3 the inaugural Teréga Open Pau-Pyrénées in the singles final in the city of Pau, France. This is his...
ASTANA – Kazakh professional freestyle skier Yulia Galysheva won a gold medal March 2 in moguls at the 2018-2019 International Ski Federation (FIS, Fédération Internationale de Ski) Freestyle Ski...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan and Vietnam will provide mutual legal assistance on criminal cases, following the Kazakh Mazhilis’ (lower house of Parliament) approval of a bill on the ratification of...
ASTANA – The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and the International Arbitration Centre have officially launched the eJustice system in Astana’s financial hub. The system allows lawsuits to be...
ASTANA – Kazakh company Qazaq Air and Iranian Mahan Air received permission from the Civil Aviation Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of Kazakhstan to open...
ASTANA – Approximately 1.7 trillion tenge (US$4.5 billion) was invested in the Kyzylorda region in 2013-2018, the regional press service reported March 3. Investments increased last year by 25.5...
ASTANA – Almas Duet, composed of Asem Abdykasymova and Polina Tyrina, will release Français À La Kazakh March 9 in the capital. The 15-track album includes five Kazakh folk...
ASTANA – The Kyzylarai mountainous forestland in the Karaganda Region is a combination of untouched nature and ancient historical monuments. Nearby Shabanbai Bi village is an ecotourism destination famous...
ASTANA – Zhanar Baiseitova, winner of the best university teacher, has also been selected as one Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces. The teacher from Pavlodar never ceases to improve, both...
ASTANA – Nomad Fortress, a medieval-looking site built on the Ili River bank for the 2005 Kazakh historical epic film “Koshpendiler” (Nomad: The Warrior), indulges tourists’ imaginations of a...
ASTANA – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented a book called “New Faces of Kazakh Diplomacy” at the March 5 meeting with its contributors and the Institute of Diplomacy...
ASTANA – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in cooperation with the Ernst & Young company announced the 15 women-led enterprises that will participate in their Fast...
ASTANA – The first results of digitising collections in Kazakh museums will be seen in 2025, said Library of the First President of Kazakhstan Deputy Director Kulyash Aktayeva at...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan has completed the tasks set out by President Nursultan Nazarbayev for the country’s two-year, non-permanent 2017-2018 United Nations Security Council membership, Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov told...
ASTANA – SABIS, a global educational network spanning five continents, is making its initial foray into Kazakhstan. The international school, the educational investment project in Kazakhstan fully funded by...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan will fully supply its oil and gas market in 2019 and export surplus oil products, said Kazenergy General Director Asset Magauov at the Feb. 28 Forbes...
ASTANA – In conjunction with the upcoming International Women’s Day, capital-based Mama Pro public fund presented the results March 1 of its inaugural one-month intensive training course launched in...
ASTANA – Rakhat Confectionery recorded positive growth in all key indicators last year, increasing revenue, profitability and market share, according to the company’s Feb. 26 press release. Income grew...
ASTANA – The regional administration of Pavlodar will open an “Investor’s House” to operate as a one-stop shop for potential investors by the end of the year, Pavlodar Region...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s rising singing stars Dimash Kudaibergen and Daneliya Tuleshova advanced to the next round in the latest episode of “The World’s Best,” the global talent competition show...
ASTANA – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Transition Report forecasts steady growth for the Kazakh economy, as major structural reforms are expected to improve the situation...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan expects to export nine million tonnes of grain and flour this year, including increased shipments of domestic wheat to China, one of the world’s largest markets....
ASTANA – The new Kazakh government’s measures to improve living standards requires a new, integrated approach by the capital’s akimat (administration) toward governance, said Astana Akim (Mayor) Bakhyt Sultanov...
