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Tajikistan has tightened restrictions on celebrations of the traditional festive season in schools in the Central Asian country, banning Christmas trees and gift-giving.

• 22 декабря 2015, 17:02

A list of the most popular gifts for March 8 -- the International Women's Day -- in Kazakhstan has been made.

• 08 марта 2014, 16:52

The Mayor of Almaty has presented a car to the Kazakhstan figure-skating Denis Ten for the bronze medal that he won in the Sochi Olympics.

• 28 февраля 2014, 23:45

A garden gnome, a chocolate royal coach and a falconry glove were among the gifts presented to Britain's royal household last year.

• 17 января 2014, 09:56

Amazon Thursday said it would give $20 gift cards and pay shipping costs for customers affected by problems at UPS and FedEx that delayed some Christmas package deliveries.

• 28 декабря 2013, 10:18

Who needs Santa Claus when you hold one of two winning tickets announced in the $636 million Mega Millions lottery in the United States?

• 18 декабря 2013, 15:31

Australia's tropical Northern Territory presented an unusual gift to Britain's new royal baby, Prince George, a crocodile.

• 25 июля 2013, 17:18

Kazakhstan naturalist Atygai Yesenkulov offered to supply bats to Astana city to help it harness the mosquito population.

• 10 июля 2013, 16:23

A luxury golf bag, a statue of Abraham Lincoln and an Australian rules football jersey formed part of a treasure trove given to US President Barack Obama in 2011.

• 26 апреля 2013, 17:57

Cosmetics billionaire Leonard Lauder has given New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art an astonishing, no-strings-attached collection of Cubist art that he assembled over four decades.

• 10 апреля 2013, 11:34

A Japanese city devastated by the 2011 tsunami has received anonymous gifts of gold worth more than $250,000 in a phenomenon dubbed a "goodwill gold rush" ahead of the second anniversary of the disaster.

• 17 февраля 2013, 12:48

China has banned ads that encourage giving luxury gifts to authorities, state media said Thursday, the latest push against official extravagance since new leaders took charge vowing better governance.

• 07 февраля 2013, 14:01

Boxer Serik Sapiyev will get Toyota Land Cruiser-200 from Karaganda oblast for his gold medal at London Olympics.

• 13 августа 2012, 17:24

The information that the Mayor of East-Kazakhstan oblast gave a cabriolet to Olympic champion Olga Rypakova turned out to be not true.

• 13 августа 2012, 15:19

The Tumar that Nursultan Nazarbayev gave to Barack Obama was made by the artistic group Woman Art Design from Uralsk.

• 30 марта 2012, 17:51

Residents of Tucson, AZ, gifted to Almaty a sculpture that represents close relationships between the two sister cities.

• 03 октября 2011, 13:29