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ASTANA – Astana Education Administration Head Anuar Zhangozin announced during a recent press conference at the Central Communications Service that students are now able to submit documents electronically for admission to the city’s vocational schools. “Since Aug. 1 of the current year, submission of documents is accessible in an electronic form. The service is available…

ASTANA – The Astana City Administration is proposing a gradual adding of identification prefixes to the existing names of city streets, reported the akimat (city administration) press centre Aug. 6. Identification prefixes are unique alphanumeric zip codes intended to help citizens, taxis and emergency services more easily find their way around the city. The capital’s…

ASTANA – Kazakhstan will be involved in the development of a Russian super-heavy rocket, ria.ru reports with reference to the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Defence and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan (Kazkosmos). “According to the approved definition of further cooperation at the Baikonur complex, creation of a super heavy class space rocket complex is…

ASTANA – An agreement between the Kazakh Chamber of Commerce and Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to open a Kazakh trade house in Turkmenistan was reached during a trade and economic mission to Ashgabat. The mission, set up with the assistance of the Kazakh Embassy in Turkmenistan, was attended by 16 machinery, construction, pharmaceutical and…

ASTANA – Kazkommertsbank’s merger into Halyk Bank was completed July 27. The merger transfers all property, all rights and obligations of Kazkommertsbank to Halyk Bank. “We have completed a large process that lasted for more than a year and a half, starting with the entering into discussions, due diligence procedures prior to the acquisition of…

More than 150 athletes competed July 29 in the Roller Ski Cup  in Astana dedicated to the memory of Kazakh figure skater Denis Ten. Amateur and professional athletes took to the start across eight categories. A minute of silence preceded the start of the race in the capital’s central park, mourning the recent tragic death…

ASTANA – A multilateral agreement was signed 26 June by the Kazakh Ministry of Finance’s State Revenue Committee Chairman Ardak Tengebayev, granting Kazakhstan the opportunity to exchange financial account information and jurisdictions in 102 countries starting in 2020. The agreement was made possible by the adoption of a single standard for the provision of information…

ASTANA – Capital residents: get your appetites ready. Construction has begun on Keruen Global gastronomic market in the city’s Saryarka district, reported abctv.kz. The 7,900-square metre mall, to be built on 3.14 hectares, will devote approximately 6,400 square metres to commerce and food courts and the remaining space to warehouses, refrigerators and a terrace, according…

ASTANA – The Kazakhstan Prosecutor General’s Office announced July 31 that BTA Bank’s former chairman of the board of directors Mukhtar Ablyazov is suspected in organising a premeditated murder of his erstwhile business partner Erzhan Tatishev in 2004. According to the prosecutors’ statement, in 2004, Tatishev, the then head of Bank Turan Alem, died from…

ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited tourist attractions in Burabai July 11. He reviewed the development of the region’s tourism cluster and noted the importance of promoting Kazakh tourism potential. Nazarbayev said Borovoye Resort is an important tourism area and can be more popular with additional development. He also stressed that it is not the…

ASTANA – The Kazakh government plans to create a new department to regulate social modernisation and the Committee on Youth and Family Affairs, Minister of Social Development Darkhan Kaletayev announced during a July 17 government meeting. “The functions remained the same. We plan to create a project office for the Department of Social Modernisation, which…

ASTANA – Kazakh citizens will have to re-register land when renouncing their citizenship, the Akmola region’s Regional Communication Service announced as a reminder of Kazakhstan’s land code standards. Citizenship renunciation is a citizen’s statutory right to end his or her relationship with the state of nationality in a prescribed manner. In Kazakhstan, it is realised…

ASTANA – Astana Invest City Development Centre for Investment and V.S.E.E. company headed by Kazakh actor and director Niyaz Abdygapar recently signed a memorandum to establish a film studio at Technopark located on the premises of the Tselinselmash plant, reported Astana Akimat (city administration) press service. “We helped find the venue thanks to social entrepreneurship…

ASTANA — Kazakhstan’s correctional facilities will be reconstructed corresponding to the international standards in which convicts have to be detained in a single prison cell, said Prosecutor General Kairat Kozhamzharov in his interview with informburo.kz. Kozhamzharov discussed measures to strengthen the rule of law and the prospects for the development of human rights mechanisms. “First…

ASTANA — Kazakh President Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed July 9 amendments to laws in education, energy and finance. The educational amendments seek to improve the system of post-secondary, technical and vocational education. They eliminate conflicts and contradictions in legislative norms in the field of technical and vocational education. In addition, a programme of moral and…

ASTANA – Since the beginning of the year, the Sergek video surveillance system has helped to detect 30 drivers whose licenses had been revoked, according to the press service of Astana Department of Internal Affairs. “These criminal offences are in many cases detected by police officers using a system of CCTV cameras. The Criminal Code…

ASTANA – A Russian Soyuz-2-1a rocket with the Progress MS-09 cargo spacecraft was launched July 10 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to RIA Novosti. A few minutes after the launch, the cargo spacecraft separated from the third stage of the launch vehicle and entered the flight path to the International Space Station (ISS).…

ASTANA – The Kazakh boxing team took first place at the July 3-8 Brandenburg Youth Cup in Frankfurt, Germany. The team won seven gold, one silver and one bronze medals. The first gold was won by light flyweight Makhmud Sabyrkhan (49 kg), who secured a 3:2 victory over Adam Hession in the final. Beybars Zheksen…

ASTANA – The brightest representatives of the genre assembled in the capital June 30-July 1 for the Koshpendiler Alemi (World of Nomads) international festival. The event, held in the Ethnoaul National Cultural Complex at Kazanat race track, was dedicated to the city’s 20th anniversary. The programme included performances by participants and musicians from Bashkortostan, Bulgaria,…

ASTANA – Baiterek Development recently launched a website to monitor housing construction. The website is funded by the Nurly Zher state housing construction programme. Baiterek Development, a subsidiary of Baiterek Holding, operates the Nurly Zher affordable housing programme. The Nurly Zher land and housing development programme offers mortgages for qualified citizens at low interest rates.…

ASTANA – A humanoid robot named Sophia told a conference of mayors from Silk Road cities July 3 that she loves Astana architecture. “Walking around the city, I fell in love with the unique architecture of your capital, in which the most advanced technologies and innovative methods of city planning in the 21st century are…

ASTANA – Astana-Technopolis and Micro Kazakhstan have agreed to build a DNA diagnostics laboratory at Nazarbayev University. The laboratory will help to detect and prevent diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular diseases, as well as perform criminal forensics. The laboratory will also help personalise the use of medications. Microread was founded in China in 2007 and…

ASTANA – The National Bank of Kazakhstan released a report June 27 to answer frequently asked questions from citizens about the 7-20-25 housing lending programme. “To participate in the programme, it is necessary to bring documents confirming compliance of a borrower with the programme terms, including the presence of employment or entrepreneurial income, as well…

ASTANA — Kazakh Mazhilis (lower house of Parliament) Deputy Azat Peruashev proposed during a recent Mazhilis plenary session to diversify Kazakhstan’s foreign exchange portfolio, renounce one currency dominance and increase the share of gold reserves. Peruashev proposed in his address to Kazakh Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev and National Bank Chair Daniyar Akishev protecting the gold…

ASTANA – Few depositors of Delta Bank and Kazinvestbank have applied for compensation from the Kazakhstan Deposit Insurance Fund (KDIF) for damages related to those banks being deprived of licenses to conduct banking and other operations from 2017 and 2016 respectively, KDIF Chairman Bakyt Kogulov said recently. KDIF begin to compensate for the damages this…