- Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
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ASTANA – The government presented its report, “New Industrialisation of Kazakhstan: Results of Half Year of 2014,” to President Nursultan Nazarbayev at a July 2 event. Before the meeting,...
ASTANA – The opening ceremony, attended by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, of the new National Defence Universitycampus was held July 3 in Astana. The National Defence University is the...
ASTANA – Thenational Under-17 Spanish football team won the 7th annual Kazakhstan President’s Cup tournament played at the Astana Arena on June 24-30. National youth teams from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan,...
ASTANA – The London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has participated in a bond issuance by Kazakhstan’s national railway company, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the bank announced...
Astana Day
ASTANA – Astana’s new National Museum of Kazakhstan was opened by President Nursultan Nazarbayev on July 2, in the midst of two days of events, including a symposium and...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in conjunction with the KazakhstanUnion of Journalists, announced the winners of the first international journalism competition, “Kazakhstan in the eyes of foreign...
The Monument “Baiterek” Situated at the heart of Astana’s modern Left Bank, the Baiterek is a symbol of the city and the new Kazakhstan. The unique monument, designed...
Idrissov speaks on EEU, relations with Russia, China, West ASTANA – In a July 2 interview with Liter daily newspaper, Minister of Foreign Affairs Erlan Idrissov discussedchanges in Kazakhstan’sforeign...
ASTANA – Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Finance of Switzerland Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf will visit Almaty and Astana from July 8-10 and is expected to meet...
Astana today is not only the political centre of the country, but also the sports centre of Kazakhstan. The republic, which in a very short historical period made big...
ALMATY – Towards a Dream, the second nationalfootball championship among orphans heldJune 17-20, provided an opportunity foreight teams from all regions of Kazakhstan to fight for the main prize...
ASTANA – The Shanyrak Youth Theatre of Astana’s Eurasian National University (ENU) staged a drama by famous Kazakh playwright Zhotai Zhumat, “Eternal Nostalgia,” on June 28. The performance drew...
ASTANA – A round-table discussion of Kazakhstan’s e-government system and of plans to hold a major international conference on e-government development globally in the fall was held in Astana...
Kazakhstan’s relations with countries of Latin America has seen a major expansion in recent months with mutual visits and exchanges. One such visitor recently was Ruben Dario Florez, Minister-Counsellor...
Honorary ATOM Project Ambassador, painter and anti-nuclear weapons activist Karipbek Kuyukov called on humanity to abandon nuclear weapons during the international Euro Mediterranean Forum against nuclear weapons in Ankara...
ASTANA – President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev visited the Aktobe and East Kazakhstan regions on June 23-24 touring and launching a number of industrial and social facilities and meeting...
The Mazhilis of the Kazakh Parliament recently approved amendments to the nation’s CriminalСode that are meant to prevent extremism, terrorism and the spread of radical ideologies.The amendments stiffen penalties...
ASTANA – At Kazakhstan’s Technology Commercialisation Centre (TCC), Lead Expert Erik Azulay and a team of managers, scientists and other experts are working to marry those old, uneasy bedfellows,...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov met with his counterpart from Tajikistan Sirodjidin Aslov on June 16 in Astana to discuss the future of Kazakh-Tajik cooperation and...
At a joint sitting of the houses of Parliament, the reports of the government and the Accounting Committee on execution of the national budget in 2013 were approved, head...
The Ministry of Industry and New Technologies jointly with the National Agency for Technological Development launched an innovative bus June 23, with the aim of finding new ideas and...
The Evolution Summer FEST-2014 dance festival will be held in front of the Astana Opera theatre throughout the summer. The festival opened on June 21 for the first time with...
For the second year in a row, one of the stages of the prestigious World Grand Prix in women’s volleyball will be held in Almaty July 21-27. This year’s...
Seventy-one Greco-Roman wrestlers in four weight categories were whittled down to four national champions and 12 podium winners during the June 21-22 Greco-Roman wrestling Championship in Karaganda. In the...
ALMATY – Almost every fashionista has arenowned Leather Satchelin her closet, as thepopularity of the bags is really high.Stylish and comfortable satchelsare equally chosen by both men and women,...
At the June 12 meeting of the Foreign Investors Council under the President of Kazakhstan in Borovoye, the picturesque resort in northern Kazakhstan, the head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev,...
The Bolashak presidential scholarship programme, introduced in November 1993, has since become a key ingredient in Kazakhstan’s history of independent development as well as an intergral part of the...
Representatives from the Technical Regulation and Metrology (measurements) Committee of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Kazakhstan, the Kazakhstan Metrology Institute (KazInMetr), the Kazakhstan Standardisation and Certification...
The first Toyota car factory in Kazakhstan – and the first Toyota assembly platform in Central Asia – will soon begin producing Fortuners, one of Toyota’s off-road vehicles, in...
Fourteen-year-old accordionist from Pavlodar Olzhas Nurlanov participated in the 11thMoscow Meets Friends international festival for young musicians in the Russian capital from May 26 to June 5. Nurlanov, a...
ASTANA – The South African Embassy in Kazakhstan hosted a premiere of “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” directed byJustin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) at Sary Arka Mall on June...
Tazy a breed of Kazakh dog that has been a true friend of man for several millennia, needs to be saved. State support is required in the effort. A...
KOSTANAI – The joint Russian-Kazakh venture EurazCaspianStal has produced its first batch of industrial fittings. The technological equipment was put into operation in December 2013. The plant has the...
PAVLODAR – Major, national-scale projects in transport logistics are being implemented in Pavlodar. Plans that have been long in the making to build a bridge over the Irtysh River...
TALGAR – Spouses Tuyak Yeskozhina and Anuarbek Baissarin have raised more than 340 orphaned children left without parental care. Theirs is the largest family, not only in Almaty region,...
ASTANA – South Korean President Park Geun-hye paid an official visit to Kazakhstan within her Central Asian tour on June 18-19, focusing mainly on expanding economic ties and realising...
ASTANA – The Kazakhstan government is working to halve the energy-consumption share in the GDP by 2050 by focusing on energy efficiency in three key sectors of the economy:...
ALMATY – The Spirit of Tengri, an international festival of contemporary ethnic music held June 7 with a live sound and light show, has become a real gift to...
When many of the world’s business and political elite gathered recently in Kazakhstan at the Astana Economic Forum, the country’s achievements and potential were plain for all to see:...
ASTANA – Journalists were shown a day in the life of oncology and tuberculosis specialists in Kazakhstan on a press tour organised by the Kazakhstan Scientific Research Institute (KazSRI)...
ASTANA – Hard work, dedication and entrepreneurial spirit, these are the qualities represented by the three colours of the Armenian flag. Red stands for the Armenian highland, its people’s...
Almaty will host a Kazakh-Israeli agricultural business forum on June 24 and 25. Major Israeli companies will present innovative solutions and the latest drip irrigation, crop protection, fish farm,...
Just a decade and a half ago, we witnessed the official presentation of the capital of Kazakhstan and the appearance of a new name on the world map. Today,...
Due to the new tools of support, the volume of non-oil exports by 2019 should increase by 1.1 times compared to the level of 2012. A comprehensive programme to...
ASTANA – Despite the huge potential, tourism in Kazakhstan is not developing properly. That was the inference of the governmental hour on June 16 in the Mazhilis, the lower...
Tourism is among the priorities of Kazakhstan’s State Programme of Accelerated Industrial and Innovative Development. The government’s new concept for the development of the tourism industry through 2020, plus...
SOUTH-KAZAKHSTAN REGION – Nurlan Kuralov, director of Amankeldi LLP, plans to grow one million trees on his 420 hectares of gardens and vineyards with the use of intensive technology....
Ahead of the state visit to Astana by President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea on June 18-19, we interviewed Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to Seoul Dulat Bakishev about what...
Kazakh alpinist Maksut Zhumayev, whoclimbedMount McKinley, the highest point in North America, shared his impressions with his compatriots June 14at a meetingat the Kazakh Consulate Generalin New York City....
