Anti-Corruption Programme Seeks to Make Kazakhstan among World’s Least Corrupt Countries within 10 Years
ASTANA – “The government must be accountable to the public and operate both transparently and effectively,” Bauyrzhan Baibek, the first deputy chairman of the Nur Otan party said during a recent international round table titled “Prospects for the Expansion of the Right to Access Information, Forms of Social Control and Anti-Corruption in Kazakhstan.” He also…
Television Series Will Chronicle Exploits of Kazakh Heroes
On Jan. 29, 100 days before the celebration of World War II Victory Day, the Astana TV channel started broadcasting videos dedicated to the heroes of the war, also referred to as the Great Patriotic War. The 100 informative videos in the Kazakh and Russian languages titled “Heroic Chronicles of the Kazakh People” were…
More than 7,000 Km of Roads to Become Toll Roads by 2022
ASTANA – Approximately one third of Kazakhstan’s roadways will be subject to toll charges by 2020, Vice Minister of Investment and Development Zhenis Kassymbek announced Feb. 2. “In terms of transport infrastructure development, it is planned to increase the length of toll roads of national importance up to 7,000 kilometres by 2022. It is about…
