Search Results for 2007/02/16

Kazakhfilm Begins Implementation of 3-Year Modernization Plan

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhfilm studios have begun the modernization process that is expected to last 3 years and incorporate new technical equipment, reconstruction of engineering networks and buildings and a new…

Kazakhstan Celebrates Its Diplomatic Service’s Professional Holiday

…between 2007 and 2013. As of today, the MFA has a service consisting of approximately 20 percent female diplomats but according to Sarsenbayev: “there are still, of course, not enough…

Experts Explore What Upcoming Election Means for Kazakhstan’s Political Life

…for Kazakhstan. The system functioned in the country between 1998 and 2007. The nation’s first convocation of the Mazhilis comprised 67 deputies elected from single-mandate districts. The second (1999-2004) and…

In Search of Golden Mean

…the country through the constitution. It was this constitution, adopted in a national referendum 18 years ago next week, on August 30, 1995; and subsequently amended in 1998 and 2007,…

Kazakh Scientists Continue to Explore Steppe’s Mysterious Miracle Turgai Geoglyphs

…geometric patterns built out of earth and clay in 2007. In the same year, he launched the Turgay Discovery project that focused on research on the Turgai geoglyphs. Since 2007,…

Turkmenistan’s Pipeline Strategy: Building a Diversified Export Infrastructure

…China, to be transported via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Thereafter, progress was rapid. In 2007, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Niyazov’s successor, visited China and oversaw the signing of a Production Sharing Agreement…

EU Encourages Kazakhstan to Abolish Completely Capital Punishment

…and political representatives. But we are doing more than simply talking about abolishing the death penalty. Since 2007, the EU through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)…

Kazakhstan attracts record amount of foreign investment in 2016

…gross inflow of FDI has been growing steadily since 2007, but declined by 17 percent in 2013. In 2014, the decrease slowed by 2 percent and in 2015 it fell…

Kazakh anti-nuclear activist calls US-North Korea summit ‘unprecedented’, cautious about outcome

…late April, the first since 2007, and the U.S.-North Korea summit preliminarily scheduled for May. Though their outcomes are yet to be known, the willingness of the North Korean regime…

Why Biodiversity Became the Centrepiece of Kazakhstan’s Agenda at the UN: the Tragic and Hopeful Story of the Aral Sea

…world (26,000 square miles), started shrinking in the 1960s because of Soviet irrigation projects and by 2007 it shrank to just 10 percent of its original size. Salination became a…