Eurasian Economic Union Treaty signed in AstanaThe president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin has signed the Treaty establishing the Eurasian Economic Union.
29 May 2014
Putin to seal new post-Soviet union with Belarus, KazakhstanRussian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday arrived in the Kazakh capital where he was set to sign a deal with his Kazakh and Belarussian counterparts creating a new economic union championed by Moscow.
Astana shadow economy worth around $4 billionAstana’s mayor Imangali Tasmagambetov declared that the shadow economy in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana is worth around 540 billion tenge ($3.97 billion).
CICA adopts Shanghai declarationParticipants of the 4th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) have adopted a Shanghai declaration.
Asia should create its own OSCE: NazarbayevKazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev addressed the Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.
Swiss turn down world's highest minimum wageSwiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to introduce the world's highest minimum wage, which would have guaranteed every worker in one of the world's priciest nations at least $25 an hour.
US economy rebounds, adding 288,000 jobs in AprilThe US economy pumped out 288,000 jobs in April, the highest pace in over two years, in a fresh confirmation that growth has resumed after a harsh winter freeze.