Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has spoken about the roles of Astana and Almaty in Kazakhstan's economy at the VIII Astana Economic Forum that took place in Astana on May 21-22.
A lot of efforts were made to preserve Astana from flooding. Technology were one way to do that as daily photographs of areas around the Kazakh capital were made to control the situation.
Today Kazakhstan celebrates one of the most important holidays – the Victory Day, which commemorates the end of the Great Patriotic War, as the WWII is known in the former Soviet states, and the win of the Soviet Union over the Nazi Germany.