Barys Continues Successful Season with Winning Road Tour
After a strong homestand to start the season, Astana’s Barys Hockey club recently completed a successful road tour, winning three out of four away games and scoring 15 goals. Barys of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) Western Conference recently played against Donbass from Donetsk, Medveščak from Zagreb, Dinamo from Minsk and Moscow Spartak. Barys lost…
Barys Takes Lead in Eastern KHL
The Astana hockey club of Barys successfully started the sixth season of the regular championship of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). Having started with defeating “Severstal” from Cherepovets 10-1, in seven matches Barys stumbled only once, losing to the eminent SKA from St. Petersburg 2-5. This was followed by four straight wins in the third…
Astana Presidential Sports Club Launched
On the eve of the Capital Day of the, the new “Astana” presidential multi-sport club was launched. Stars of world sport Luis Figo, Oliver Kahn and Alexander Ovechkin came to congratulate the people of Kazakhstan on this great occasion. The “Astana” Presidential Club combines the best Kazakhstan sports teams. Professional cycling team “Pro Team Astana,”…
Finnish Expert Ari-Pekka Selin Becomes Head Coach of Barys
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 an assistant coach on the Finnish men’s national hockey team. “Astana has made a good impression: they pay a lot of attention to hockey. For example, a new…
UN Refugees Chief Urges Stronger Cooperation in Central Asia
On the eve of the June 5 Second Ministerial Conference on Refugee Protection and Mixed Migration: Almaty Process, Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, sat down for an exclusive interview with The Astana Times to talk about the challenges his agency faces and his views on what could be done globally to address the…
