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Italian ex-top manager released on parole from Kazakhstan prison
Italian Flavio Sidagni, convicted in Kazakhstan for drug distribution, has been released on parole.
05 August 2014
Largest bank in Kazakhstan experiencing cash withdrawals increase in wake of recent devaluation rumors
Pressure on Kazkommertsbank’s ATM machines has increased by 15% due to devaluation rumors.
04 August 2014
Russian Foreign Minister to visit Kazakhstan
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan on August 6-7, 2014.
04 August 2014
Russia may stop financing Baikonur in 2016
Russian Finance Ministry might stop financing Baikonur cosmodrome in 2016.
04 August 2014
Monument to Kazakhstan's budget?
A recently installed fountain in a city park of Astana became an object of ridicule from Internet users.
02 August 2014
Swastika-depicting vessels discovered in Kazakhstan
Bronze Age vessels depicting swastika have been excavated by archaeologists in Kazakhstan.
02 August 2014
Meningitis hits another city in Kazakhstan
78 more people have been registered with meningitis in Kazakhstan.
01 August 2014
Elite Turkic warrior burial discovered in Kazakhstan
An archeological expedition in Zhaksy District of Akmola Oblast has discovered a burial of a warrior of the Turkic period belonging to 6-7 centuries AD and a horse in the neighboring mound.
01 August 2014
Putin and Nazarbayev talk Ukraine
Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev had a telephone conversation with Russia's Putin about the situation in Ukraine.
01 August 2014
Ablyazov's wife deportation to Kazakhstan illegal: Italy Court of Cassation
The wife of Kazakh tycoon and former head of BTA bank Mukhtar Ablyzov was illegally deported to Kazakhstan, Italy's Court of Cassation rules.
01 August 2014
Kazakhstan to toughen monetary policies should pressure on Russian ruble persist
Rising inflation rate in Russia may force the National Bank of Kazakhstan to toughen its policies.
01 August 2014
Kazakhstan lifts ban from Russian fuel imports
Kazakhstan has lifted restrictions from import of oil products from Russia.
01 August 2014
Russia's Lukoil sells filling stations in Ukraine
Russia's Lukoil said it had reached preliminary agreement to sell its network of filling stations in Ukraine, days after radical nationalists there tried to extort fuel from the company.
31 July 2014
Ex-spy Litvinenko death inquiry to open in Britain
Britain will formally open an inquiry into the radioactive poisoning of Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko in a case that threatens to increase tensions with Moscow amid the crisis in Ukraine.
31 July 2014
Toasts and tears of joy as Germany started WWI
It is past dusk when Wilhelm II uncorks the sparkling wine for his top army brass on August 1, 1914.
31 July 2014
UN takes aim at Islamist oil grab in Syria, Iraq
The UN Security Council backed a Russian initiative to bar trade in oil with Islamists in Iraq and Syria.
30 July 2014
US and Europe hit Russia with toughest sanctions yet
The United States and Europe targeted Russia's key financial, arms and energy sectors Tuesday with tough new sanctions in response to Moscow's intervention in the Ukraine crisis.
30 July 2014
Europe launches last resupply ship to space station
An Ariane 5 ES heavy rocket lifted off from South America late Tuesday bearing Europe's fifth and final robot supply ship for the International Space Station (ISS), mission control said.
30 July 2014
Tiger campaign threatened by poor data: WWF
Efforts to save the tiger are being undermined by a lack of information about how many of the endangered cats live in the wild, the conservation group WWF said.
30 July 2014
EU to impose new Russia sanctions as fighting blocks MH17 probe
The EU is set to approve punishing sanctions against Russia Tuesday over its role in the Ukraine crisis, after Kiev seized control of part of the MH17 crash site in fighting that blocked an international effort to recover victims' remains.
29 July 2014