Astana is hosting the 2nd ASTANA MINING & METALLURGY
Forum participants are representatives of the governmental authorities of Kazakhstan and foreign countries, directors of large industrial enterprises, international investors, industrial association, scientists and researchers in the sphere of mining and metallurgy and many others.
PM Karim Massimov meets his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev
This month a Kazakh delegation headed by PM Massimov is to visit [Kyrgyz capital] Bishkek to sign important documents on further integration and cooperation between the two nations: Atambayev.
112 thousand Kazakhstan residents signed against sending officers to Afghanistan
112 thousand signatures were collected in Kazakhstan against sending Kazakh officers to Afghanistan.
Kyrgyzstan guarantees four Issyk Kul resorts remain in Kazakhstan’s ownership
June 17, 2010 Vice Head of the Kyrgyz Interim Government Azimbek Beknazarov stated that in the nearest future he was to prepare a document to nationalize the four resorts earlier transferred to Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan imported 167 863 previously owned cars from July 2010 to July 2011
Customs duties for the cars totaled $308 000.
Kazakhstan ranked 75th by number of entries in Wikipedia
Kazakhstan is ranked 75th by the number of entries in Wikipedia with around 28 thousand entries in Kazakh language in Wikipedia.
Samruk-Kazyna National Sovereign Wealth Fund Chairman Timur Kulibayev elected into Gazprom Board of Directors
In accordance with President Dmitry Medvedev’s instruction, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina were to quit the Gazprom Board of Directors by July 1.
Massimov and Putin discussed removal of customs borders
Kazakhstan Prime-Minister tweeted about a telephone talk with his Russian counterpart Vladimit Putin.
OIC General Secretary advised to reissue 1,000-tenge note
OIC Secretary General of Organization advised Kazakhstan National Bank to reissue a 1,000-tenge note bacuse of changes in OIC name and emblem.