Football: Ex-coach of Slovakia national team will train Kazakhstan's Kairat FC
Vladimir Weiss will sign a three-year contract with Kazakhstan's Kairat Football Club.
Boxing: Our goal is to win WSB season: Astana Arlans coach
Sergey Korchinskiy, Kazakhstan's boxing Astana Arlans head coach is satisfied with the team's performance and intends to win this season of the World Series of Boxing.
Kazakhstan's KEGOC to shrink power export to Russia
Kazakhstan's KEGOC has been instructed to decrease its export of power to Russia.
Russia briefly bans YouTube 'by mistake'
Web-surfing Russians endured a brief scare Wednesday that the authorities had blocked YouTube after the video-sharing website appeared on a list of banned addresses, in what officials later called a "technical mistake".
4.4-magnitude earthquake hit 363km from Almaty
4.4-magnitude earthquake hit Kyrgyzstan at 09:28 p.m. (Astana time) on November 19.
Water tensions overflow in ex-Soviet Central Asia
The ex-Soviet states of Central Asia are engaged in an increasingly bitter standoff over water resources, adding another element of instability to the volatile region neighbouring Afghanistan.
Astana Arlans boxers began third WSB season with victory
Astana Arlans Kazakhstan edged Ukraine's Otamans 3:2 in the World Series of Boxing tournament that was held in Kiev, Ukraine.
Kazakhstan and Ukrainian Defense Ministers meet in Astana
Kazakhstan Defense Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov met with Defense Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Salamatin and Ukrainian military delegation in Astana.
Blackout confuses meeting of Kazakhstan and Georgian government delagations in Tbilisi
Technical personnel of the House of Justice in Tbilisi switched off the electricity in the building during Kazakhstan-Georgian meeting.
Three ISS crew return to Earth in Russian capsule
A Russian cosmonaut and two astronauts from the International Space Station touched down early Monday on the steppes of Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz capsule after spending over four months aboard the ISS.
Tymoshenko ends hunger strike: doctors
Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko agreed to end her hunger strike, her doctors said, more than two weeks after she began her protest over alleged fraud in polls won by the country's ruling party.
50 years since Solzhenitsyn Gulag story shocked USSR
The Soviet Union 50 years ago allowed publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's landmark account of life in the Stalin prison camps "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", shocking readers by revealing a hitherto hidden horror.
Putin, Merkel seek to soothe Germany-Russia tensions
German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday with the two sides seeking to soothe tensions over Berlin's recent criticism of the Russian record on rights.
Serik Akhmetov checked out ERA-GLONASS system in Russia
Prime-Minister attended a presentation of the system of emergency response to accidents called ERA-GLONASS.
US 'concerns' at Ukraine vote fraud claims: Biden
Vice President Joe Biden expressed US "concerns" Tuesday to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych about alleged fraud in parliamentary elections won by the ruling party.
Nazarbayev received Man of the Year award
The award in State Policy category was also given to Russia's President Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Aleksander Lukashenko.
Russia will back US-Iran nuclear talks: FT
Russia will support one-to-one talks between the United States and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Falling aluminium prices hit Rusal earnings
Russian aluminium giant Rusal posted a third-quarter loss of $118 million on Monday, blaming Europe's economic turmoil and China's slowdown for sinking global demand for the metal.
Belarus interested in resuming oil import from Kazakhstan
Growth of Kazakhstan import to our country may be secured by resuming supplies of hydrocarbons and oil products for processing by Belarus companies: deputy PM.
Putin instructed to sign agreement on common air defense system with Kazakhstan
Vladimir Putin has supported the government’s suggestion to sign a creation of the common regional air defense system with Kazakhstan.