- Wednesday, 19 August, 2026
- Almaty 64 °F / 18 °C
- Astana 54 °F / 12 °C
The National Chamber of Entrepreneurs is encouraging small and rural businesses to join this business association in order to better keep up with changing laws and new...
SOUTH KAZAKHSTAN – On July 1, the press service of the Western Europe–Western China International Transit Corridor announced that the first section of an international highway in...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev met with British Prime Minister David Cameron on June 30 in Atyrau, the so-called oil capital of the country. The meeting...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on July 1 welcomed British Prime Minister David Cameron to the presidential Akorda residence as part of the first visit by...
Speaker of the Senate of Kazakhstan’s Parliament Kairat Mami took part in the 22nd session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in...
ASTANA – The Kazakh-British Business Forum held on July 1 at the Palace of Independence saw the signing of ten memoranda of understanding or cooperation agreements between...
Kazakhstan has come a long way in a short time. In 21 years, we have moved from a Soviet republic with no private sector to a sovereign...
Finnish Ambassador Mikko Kinnunen may be wrapping up his mission in Kazakhstan on July 12, but Finland and Finnish business are here to stay. It’s been an...
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan’s independence in 1991, the religious sphere in this country has seen a major revival as people became free...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s first national sports channel KazSport will begin broadcasting sporting events and news on July 1. Minister of Culture and Information Mukhtar Kul-Mukhammed reported that...
LEDYARD, Connecticut, USA, June — Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, with an excruciating left into Macklin’s lower body, knocked him out in third to defend his middle weight WBA...
ASTANA – The need for more available and affordable housing in Kazakhstan was the subject of a meeting of the discussion club of the National Welfare Fund...
Astana – As Kazakhstan seeks to expand and diversify its economy, a campaign, “Seven Days in the Industrial Life of Kazakhstan,” was held June 29-July 5 in...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov has called the trip by British Prime Minister David Cameron to Kazakhstan on June 30 – July 1 a “milestone...
The visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to Kazakhstan on June 30 – July 1 comes at the invitation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, extended during the...
SHYMKENT – Rowers from Shymkent won an unprecedented number of gold and silver medals in May at the World Cup of Rowing and Canoeing in the Czech...
A two-day public bicycle ride with Astana Cycling Team stars Alexander Vinokourov, the recent London 2012 Olympic champion, and the recent Giro d’Italia 2013 winner Vincenzo Nibali...
ALMATY – The 23rd Memorial for Gusman Kosanov track and field tournament was held recently in Almaty earlier in June. Iranian sprinters Khasan Tafian and Reza Khasemi...
ASTANA – Wimbledon Stadium in London will host the prestigious open tennis championship of England from June 24 to July 7 with a record $34.4 million purse....
ASTANA – Children and teenagers in Kazakhstan have a new way of accessing the wider world through the Young Travellers’ Club, an Internet portal of the International...
NORTH KAZAKHSTAN – Almost all of the economically active population of Karaagash village is employed in manufacturing. The average salary here is 80,000 tenge. The aul (“village”...
PAVLODAR – As Kazakhstan celebrated Medical Workers’ Day earlier in June, The Astana Times takes a look at the achievements of Katima Sultanova, her husband Tulegen Mussabekov...
ASTANA – Astana’s major hockey team, Barys, enters this preseason with a new coach, Ari-Pekka Selin, a longtime head coach in the Finnish hockey league and previously...
ASTANA – On June 21, the opera “Birzhan-Sara,” directed by Yuri Alexandrov, premiered at the recently opened Astana Opera Theatre with President Nursultan Nazarbayev and other dignitaries...
The Akmola region will implement one of the largest projects in Kazakhstan within the framework of EXPO 2017. This was reported by the press service of the...
On June 19, President Nursultan Nazarbayev approved amendments to state budget for 2013-2015. The head of state signed the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Introduction...
The international seminar for civil servants’ advanced training on the subject of Strategic Planning held at the Academy of Public Administration ended June 14. The seminar was...
On June 18, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the law “On amendments and additions to the National Budget for 2013-2015,” the Akorda’s press service reported. The...
Civil society is a popular term in academia and Western media. But sometimes ideas and concepts can be lost in translation. Terms with political slants fall through...
ASTANA – On June 21, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the law “On pension provision in the Republic of Kazakhstan,” aimed at creating the conditions for...
