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ASTANA – Would it be completely out of line to include fresh, homemade salads as a grocery item on your shopping list? No, not in a 130-nation country like...
ASTANA – As a backup for implementing crisis management measures for 2016, 225.5 billion tenge (US$624 million) has been allocated by the government, First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev...
Unlike many horror stories “expo-sceptics” in Kazakhstan post online, the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai was extremely successful, making $12 billion in direct profit. It had powerful multiple effects on...
ASTANA – During a recent China-Kazakhstan conference in Astana, Ambassador of China to Kazakhstan Zhang Hanhuey reiterated his nation’s invitation for Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to participate in the...
ASTANA – The first trial run of a container train following the Ukraine – Georgia – Azerbaijan – Kazakhstan – China route left the Odessa region in Ukraine on...
Young Kazakh director Medet Shayakhmetov will take part in the Sedona International Film Festival, presenting “Escape,” his first short documentary. The festival will be held in the U.S. from...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev set March 20 as the date for an early parliamentary election after meeting with top officials and appealing to the people of Kazakhstan concerning...
ASTANA – Maksut Zhumayev, Kazakhstan’s most prominent alpinist who has conquered the world’s 14 eight-thousanders without oxygen equipment, wants to continue his streak of victories this year. “Climbing the...
ASTANA – World Boxing Council (WBC) President Mauricio Sulaiman announced Jan. 12 Kazakh middleweight WBC interim champion, unified World Boxing Association (WBA), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and International Boxing...
ASTANA – Even though it is already January, the snow in Kazakhstan does not usually disappear until late March. During the long winter, many people think about spending time...
An Almaty resident is reviving a short-lived 1960s fashion item. Stylist, makeup designer and artist Larisa Starodubtseva recently presented Four Seasons, a women’s clothing collection made entirely from paper....
ASTANA – President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev consulted on Jan. 18 with the chairmen of both chambers of Parliament, as well as the prime minister and other top officials...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev recently signed amendments to the country’s laws on national holidays to make March 1 Day of Gratitude and the first Sunday of April Day...
ASTANA – The director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan (KazISS) Erlan Karin said recently dissolving the existing Mazhilis (lower chamber of Parliament)...
We have not reached the end of January, but it is already clear that 2016 is going to be another challenging year for the global economy. World stock markets...
ASTANA – Football is an integral part of modern life for most young Kazakh fans and supporters. The local football fan culture is not as consuming as in the...
Within the framework of Nurly Zhol, the nation’s new economic policy, the Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) will be allocating 11 billion tenge (US$30.1 million) given to it from...
ASTANA – In the next few years, Kazakh citizens will receive all needed public services, which total more than 700, through public service centres. The newly established one-stop shops...
ASTANA – About 200 cadets who will graduate this year started their internships in military units and formations of Kazakh Armed Forces on Jan. 11, according to the Ministry...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on January 17, welcoming the EU and US announcements on lifting economic sanctions imposed on Tehran in 2005. The...
ASTANA – The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan (KazISS) presented Jan. 14 an overview of the ten most important events in 2016 which are...
ASTANA – Afghanistan has long suffered from chronic instability and conflict during its modern history, depriving its economy and infrastructure of opportunities to grow and causing many of its...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke by telephone Jan. 12 with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the Akorda press service reported. The presidents exchanged opinions on the situation in...
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Ashikbayev promoted the international initiatives of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Kazakhstan’s candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council...
ASTANA – The Jan. 13 initiative of the deputies of the Mazhilis (lower chamber of Parliament) to ask President Nursultan Nazarbayev to dissolve the chamber and set early parliament...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry moved quickly to deplore the announcement by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) that it had successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test on...
ASTANA – Kurchatov, a formerly secret town in the East Kazakhstan region that was the administrative centre for the adjoining Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, is seeking new ways to...
ASTANA – The last week of 2015 and the first one of 2016 saw the Barys Astana hockey club winning five out of its six encounters in the regular...
ASTANA – The deputies of the Mazhilis (lower chamber) of Kazakhstan’s Parliament voted unanimously Jan. 13 to ask President Nursultan Nazarbayev to dissolve the chamber and set early parliament...
ASTANA – The government administrations and a number of district manufacturers from the Kostanai, Pavlodar and Karaganda regions signed memorandums of cooperation with the Astana EXPO 2017 national company...
On Jan. 1, the practical phase of the implementation of the Plan of the Nation “100 concrete steps on the implementation of the five institutional reforms” was launched. Fifty-nine...
ASTANA – In connection with Kazakhstan’s aim to become one of the top 30 most developed countries in the world, the government is striving to ensure effective efforts to...
Tickets quickly sold out for the Astana Opera’s recent performances of “La Boheme” at the Carlo Felice ancient Italian theatre, reported the press service of the Astana-based opera house....
ASTANA – The country’s national company Astana EXPO 2017 announced the winners of its first competition among local journalists on Dec. 24. The competition, which began in June, was...
ASTANA – Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov concluded his December 2015 visit to China by launching the first container train on the nation’s Lianyungang route, which continues through the...
Kazakh Air Force Pilots continued this year their tradition of celebrating New Year’s Eve up in the sky while guarding the country, reported kazpravda.kz. While the whole world gets...
ASTANA – Almaty city plans to build skateparks, BMX trails and bicycle tracks in 2016, Almaty Akim (Mayor) Bauyrzhan Baibek announced during a Dec. 29 online conference on the...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Alexey Poltoranin took three podiums out of eight races, which had starts this year and won a World Cup Stage during the International Ski Federation (Fédération...
ASTANA – Kazakh Kanat Shagirov and co-driver Vitaliy Yevtyekhov won the cars category at the annual Africa Eco Race 2016 on Jan. 10. They drove a Toyota Hilux Overdrive...
The past year was a busy 12 months for Kazakhstan’s Air Medical Service team, which flew more than 2,000 flights during the past year. More than 6,000 times, the...
ASTANA – BI Group, the largest investment and construction company in Kazakhstan, was the winner of the Altyn Sapa Presidential Award in “the best enterprise providing services” category and...
ASTANA – People yearn to hear success stories in the per aspera ad astra (to the stars through difficulties)genre, especially in light of consumerism and the constant demand for...
The press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Energy has recently announced plans to carry out additional exploration works in the Kurmangazy oil field located in the Caspian Sea....
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree Dec. 29 approving a code of ethics for public employees. The code became effective Jan. 1 and an ethics commissioner...
ASTANA – Atyrau sheep stock breeders are growing 100-150 kilogramme sheep of the famous Kazakh Yedilbayev breed, 24kz reports. Each sheep can give up to three kilogramme of wool,...
ASTANA – Healthcare and its performance on the proper level are one of the prerogatives of a developed state. In today’s world, facing crisis times, effectiveness of budgeting becomes...
Rescue teams have saved more than 600 people trapped on Kazakh roadways because of heavy snowfall in early January, among them 454 people have been evacuated, reported the Emergency...
ASTANA –Policemen inAlmaty have begun disabling stolen mobile devices by International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) codes. Officials hope the effort will lower cell phone thefts by 25 percent at...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Plan of the Nation to create the pillars of a developed democratic and economically strong state came into effect Jan. 1. On Jan. 6, the Akorda...
Given that the idea of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) was first proposed more than two decades ago by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, 2015 was hardly the best year for...
