Miras International School Offers International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is hoping to raise a new generation of young, motivated, educated and inspired citizens who will be prepared to compete for jobs and services in a global market. Astana’s Miras International School is facilitating these hopes by offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma programme, a two-year, pre-university course in English that provides…
Solar-Powered Belgian Bicyclist Raf Van Hulle Reaches Astana after 37 Days
ASTANA – The first of 33 bicyclists from around the world who are riding solar-powered bicycles from Savoy, France to the Kazakh capital in support of EXPO 2017 and its theme “Future Energy” arrived in Astana on July 23. Belgian bicyclist Raf Van Hulle was the first of the riders to pull up to the…
Putin Comes to Astana to Discuss Ties, Integration
ASTANA – Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Astana on July 7 to discuss with his counterpart bilateral relations and Eurasian integration processes. He also used the occasion to wish President Nursultan Nazarbayev, whose birthday had come the day before, a happy birthday. “The relationship between our two countries and peoples is developing in a…
EXPO 2017 Discussed at Sixth Astana Economic Forum
ASTANA – On May 22, the first day of the three-day Sixth Astana Economic Forum (AEF), world leaders, politicians, experts and energy scholars gathered in Astana at the Palace of Independence to discuss issues related to EXPO 2017, which is centered on the theme of Future Energy. Two panel sessions on the complex issues related…
