- Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
- Almaty 43 °F / 6 °C
- Astana 36 °F / 2 °C
The tasks set by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in his state-of-the-nation address to the people of Kazakhstan aim at bringing the country to a whole new level of development....
Kazakhstan has presided at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in January 2018. The presidency and membership in the UNSC for 2017-2018 is an important event not only for...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry for Investment and Development suggested establishing a new national company to manage civil aviation. “We have developed approaches to the implementation of the British...
NEW YORK – In a first for both the U.N. Security Council and the Central Asian region, Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov presided over a meeting of the council devoted...
ASTANA – Latvian air carrier airBaltic will launch April 28 direct Almaty-Riga flights. The flights will be carried out three times a week by a new Bombardier CS300 aircraft....
ASTANA – The achievements and direction for the development of the Kazakh capital were discussed Jan. 25 as part of the city’s upcoming 20th anniversary. The forum called “Astana...
ASTANA – Pensions have increased, prices for foreign passport registration and railway tickets have risen and police will be warning before fining. The coming year will bring many innovations,...
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ASTANA – Young Kazakh golfer Daulet Tuleubayev from Almaty has joined the Stanford University golf team. The athlete will continue his education and sports career at the American university...
ASTANA – The number of domestic tourists reached 3.5 million people and increased by 25 percent in a nine-month period of 2017, Minister of Culture and Sports Arystanbek Mukhamediuly...
ASTANA – In November, the Caspi Bitum plant exported its first 60 tonnes of road bitumen to China. But the first export experience for the company was in January...
ASTANA – The Astana football team is preparing for the new season and the UEFA Europa League play-offs against Portugal’s Sporting. The team is at training camps in the...
ASTANA – As President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the month of January, Kazakhstan chaired Jan. 25 the quarterly UNSC open debate focusing on the Middle...
ASTANA – Kazakh and foreign airlines are planning to launch new international flights to and from Kazakhstan this year. Regular flights will be opened from Astana to Tyumen, Krasnodar,...
NEW YORK – The voice was low, almost soft-spoken. Yet the words of President Nursultan Nazarbayev – in both the United Nations Security Council and at a conference for...
ASTANA – The Association of Kazakhstan Automobile Business recently predicted that the Kazakh car market would grow 15-20 percent this year. The recovery of the market after the fall...
ASTANA – Famous international climbers are going to conquer 20 peaks of Kazakhstan as part of celebrating the 20th anniversary of Astana, Board Chairman of Kazakh Tourism National Company...
ASTANA – Approximately 1.5 billion tenge (US$4.7 million) was collected on the Astana-Shchuchinsk toll road in 2017. According to the information provided by the press service of KazAvtoZhol national...
ASTANA – The Kazakh National Bank recently published an alert concerning the risks of using cryptocurrency. “Advertising agencies have recently been actively involved in promoting investments in cryptocurrencies. Such...
ASTANA – Astana Opera mezzo-soprano soloist Malika Minisini will make her debut in the opera house’s Main Hall Jan. 28 as Batsaiy in Yevgeniy Brusilovsky’s “Kyz Zhibek.” “The most...
ASTANA – All restrictions have been dropped on Kazakh airline flights to European Union (EU) countries, according to Minister for Investment and Development Zhenis Kassymbek. Five domestic carriers (Air...
ASTANA – Green Tal successfully trains and employs people from vulnerable social groups, a model which founder and executive Emin Askerov seeks to replicate in Kazakh regions where employment...
ASTANA – Air Astana, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), SCAT and Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund will be purchasing $2.5 billion in goods and services from such American companies as...
ASTANA – Freezing cold weather has settled into Kazakhstan with the arrival of an artic cyclone coming from the Kara Sea located north of Siberia. Recent temperatures have dipped...
ASTANA – The PyeongChang Olympics will start in just a little more than two weeks. To date, Kazakhstan will be represented by athletes who have won 49 Olympic licenses...
ASTANA – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is launching two communication campaigns in Kazakhstan aimed at preventing violence against children and promoting a friendly approach to children in...
ASTANA – Painter Anara Abzhanova, one of the country’s 100 New Faces, recently won the Recognition Prize at the Palm Art Award 2017 in Germany. Her paintings, mostly highlighting...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Prosecutor General’s Office is planning to implement five projects in the next three years under the Digital Kazakhstan programme which is currently underway and cutting...
ASTANA – Zarina Sautbayeva, one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces, believes curiosity and diligence are essential virtues of a successful scientist. She teaches biology at Nazarbayev University (NU) and...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev was among friends during his official visit to the United States earlier this month, as he was one of the guests for the Astana...
ASTANA – Foster parents change the lives of children left without parental care, filling it with love, care and joy. Murat Kabylbayev, 44, and his wife Orynbassar have provided...
ASTANA – The Government for Citizens Corporation launched Jan. 12 the first public service centre for immigrants and a digital public service centre in the capital. The immigration service...
ASTANA – Kazakh universities should provide a new quality of human capital, a task President Nursultan Nazarbayev set for the schools during his recent state-of-the-nation address. Al-Farabi Kazakh National...
ASTANA – Alexey Poltoranin, the leader of Kazakhstan’s National Skiing Team, won the 15-km classic competition at the FIS Cross-Country World Cup stage in Planica, Slovenia, on Jan. 21....
ASTANA – The Kazakh Tourism national company will be designing tours attractive to travellers from Russia and China. The promotion will focus on the Internet. The company recently held...
ASTANA – Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov presented Jan. 18 at a special event at UN headquarters in New York a proposed code of conduct to achieve a terrorism-free...
ASTANA – Working to fulfil the program of its presidency of the United Nations Security Council, Kazakhstan held Jan. 19 a ministerial debate on Central Asia and Afghanistan entitled...
ASTANA – Shin-Line occupies a 35-percent share of the Kazakh ice cream market, according to a report published by Euromonitor International. The company has already succeeded in neighbouring Russia,...
ASTANA – Enrolling in university at 13 and receiving a master’s degree at 18 is beyond the capacity of many, but not of eighteen-year-old Kazakh composer and pianist Rakhat-Bi...
ASTANA – A $15.4 million nuclear medicine centre to help better diagnose patients with early stage cancer will be built in Aktobe by the end of the year. “The...
ASTANA – The 40th Dakar Rally finished in South America Jan. 20 after 14 stages of competition. Kazakh racers finished in the top 10 general classification in two categories....
ASTANA – A Jan. 18 bus fire in the Aktobe region in north-western Kazakhstan killed 52 Uzbek nationals on their way to the Russian city of Samara. Only five,...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan citizens spent more than $1 billion for new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in 2017. One third of the purchased vehicles were made in Kazakhstan....
ASTANA – Swedish traveller Christian Bodegren recently announced the release of a documentary about his 2016-2017 Mongolia-Kazakhstan camel expedition, posting Jan. 7 the video on his Facebook page. “I...
ASTANA – Kazakh journalist and entrepreneur Bolat Yerezhepov recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan, becoming the first from Kazakhstan to have visited 193 UN member states. He plans...
ASTANA – Kazakh filmmaker and scriptwriter Sharipa Urazbayeva will take part in the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Feb. 15-25. Her first full-length project “Rys” (“Lynx”) was selected for...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s second wave of privatisation is 71 percent completed and, as a result of the directives in Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s state-of-the-nation address, it should be finished...
ASTANA – The Ministry of Education and Science recently announced plans to introduce per capita funding in the city school system. The ministry is currently developing a plan to...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Atyrau refinery has switched to K4 and K5 diesel fuel production that meets ecological standards, Kazinform reported. “The Atyrau refinery began shipping diesel fuel of ecological...
