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Kazakhstan Foreign Minister to visit Russia
Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrissov will pay an official visit to Russia.
01 April 2014
Ukraine boxer Klitschko drops out of presidential race
Boxer turned opposition leader Vitali Klitschko dropped out of Ukraine's snap presidential polls to help the candidacy of a charismatic tycoon who made a fortune selling chocolates and backs closer Western ties.
31 March 2014
Kazakhstan calls Ukraine not to continue confrontation
Kazakhstan abstained from voting at the UN General Assembly and Ukraine sent it a diplomatic note.
30 March 2014
Putin has 'no intention' of further military moves into Ukraine: Ban
The UN secretary general said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin assured him he had no intention of orchestrating further incursions into Ukrainian territory.
29 March 2014
Russia to deploy Iskander missiles at Kazakhstan border
Russia will place its Iskander mobile ballistic missile systems at the border with Kazakhstan.
28 March 2014
Russian rocket lands near Kazakh village
A Russian rocket has unexpectedly slumped near Shungay village in Bokeiorda region of West Kazakhstan Oblast.
28 March 2014
Russian spacecraft brings three-man crew to ISS after two-day delay
A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man Russian and US crew on Friday docked successfully at the International Space Station after an unprecedented two-day delay caused by a technical hitch.
28 March 2014
Boxing: Golovkin yields Best Eastern European Fighter title to Klitschko
Kazakhstan's Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin has yielded the first place in the 10 Best Eastern European Fighters ranking to Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko.
28 March 2014
IMF bails out Ukraine as UN rejects Russia's Crimea annexation
The IMF announced a $14-$18 billion bailout for Ukraine on Thursday as the UN General Assembly refused to recognise Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula.
28 March 2014
Nazarbayev and Putin discuss priorities
Nursultan Nazarbayev and Vladimir Putin have a complete mutual understanding on all the aspects of the bilateral cooperation.
27 March 2014
Earth Hour to tap crowdfunding for green campaigns
Lights will go off in some 7,000 cities around the world for this weekend's Earth Hour event, which will aim to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for environmental projects worldwide.
27 March 2014
China firm aims for the sky with Russia plane project: reports
A little-known Chinese firm hopes to set up a facility to assemble regional jets made by Russia's Sukhoi in a multi-billion-dollar deal, state media reported.
27 March 2014
Obama in Brussels for EU-US summit
President Barack Obama pays his first visit ever to European Union headquarters, cementing US-EU opposition to the takeover of Crimea after hitting out at Russian expansionism as a "sign of weakness".
26 March 2014
Kazakhstan increases wheat export to Russia by one third
Russia imported 571.7 thousand tons of wheat via railway from Kazakhstan from July 1, 2013 to February 28, 2014 that is 35.8% more than last agricultural year.
26 March 2014
Russian-US crew blast off for ISS from Kazakhstan
A crew of two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off Tuesday from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station, with US-Russia space cooperation pressing on despite the diplomatic standoff over Ukraine.
26 March 2014
Chechen president dedicates Israel's biggest mosque
The head of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, inaugurated Sunday Israel's largest mosque, in a village near Jerusalem whose inhabitants claim descent from Muslim migrants from the Caucasus.
24 March 2014
Russia's expulsion from G8 must be discussed: Cameron
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that G7 nations meeting next week must discuss the permanent expulsion of Russia from the wider G8 if it takes further action to destabilise Ukraine.
20 March 2014
Japan PM threatens Moscow with more sanctions over Crimea
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned Russia for violating Ukraine's territorial integrity and threatened to impose further sanctions against Moscow over its role in the Crimean crisis.
19 March 2014
Robot Snowden promises more US spying revelations
Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden emerged from his Russian exile Tuesday in the form of a remotely-controlled robot to promise more sensational revelations about US spying programs.
19 March 2014
Merkel, Obama condemn 'unacceptable blows' to Ukraine
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama in a phone call condemned Russia's moves to annex Crimea but said "a clear path" remains to solve the crisis diplomatically.
19 March 2014