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England's slain king Richard III, exhumed from an undignified grave beneath a car park, will finally be buried with honour on.

• 26 марта 2015, 15:26

21st March is the beginning of the celebration of the oldest holiday in the Kazakh Steppe - Nauryz, the day of rebirth and new beginning.

• 22 марта 2015, 08:40

A Kazakh-Spanish film about Soviet-era Spaniards held prisoners in a labor camp on the territory of present day Kazakhstan has won an award at the Jakarta Film Festival.

• 10 марта 2015, 13:29

Napoleon landed in southern France, announcing "It's good to be back!"

• 02 марта 2015, 12:30

Bulgaria bid farewell to its first non-communist president Zhelyu Zhelev, hailed as a hero of freedom and democracy in the Balkan country.

• 02 февраля 2015, 11:43

Entitled "The Right of Correspondence," the exhibition is organised by Russia’s top rights group, Memorial, and displays hundreds of letters sent by Gulag.

• 28 января 2015, 17:01

The mayor's office of Shymkent has submitted an application to UNESCO to obtain international recognition of the 2200-years' history of their city.

• 17 января 2015, 02:28

Russian drama "Leviathan" made history by becoming the first film from the country to win a Golden Globe since the fall of the USSR.

• 13 января 2015, 10:23

Kazakhstani-Spanish The Forgotten of Karaganda documentary film has been awarded at the California Film Awards as the Best Documentary,

• 09 января 2015, 12:41

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has spoken about the importance of passing the knowledge of history to younger generations, making the celebration of the 550th anniversary of the Kazakh statehood next year especially significant.

• 22 декабря 2014, 16:33

Kazakhstan is celebrating its Independence Day on December 16.

• 16 декабря 2014, 16:14

Famous Kazakh historian Karl Baipakov speaks about the origins of Almaty in Medieval Ages.

• 10 декабря 2014, 18:26

Workers of a mining company have discovered mammoth tusks in Karaganda Oblast.

• 10 декабря 2014, 02:06

A rare dinosaur skeleton goes on display at London's Natural History museum -- the first to be exhibited there in a century.

• 04 декабря 2014, 16:05

Napoleon's admirers will be able to carry his DNA on their wrists after a Swiss company announced its plans to sell watches containing a fragment of the emperor's hair.

• 26 ноября 2014, 13:26

A former resident of Karaganda Viacheslav Plokhov claims he found footprints of pre-historic giants in Kazakhstan. The news some might call

• 22 ноября 2014, 17:36

A professor from Gumilyov Eurasian National University has asked President Nursultan Nazarbayev to protect the Mausoleum of famous Sufi scholar located at the territory for Kazakhstan from religious fanatics.

• 20 ноября 2014, 20:18

One of Napoleon's famous two-pointed hats was sold to a South Korean collector for 1.9 million euros ($2.2 million) at an auction outside Paris.

• 17 ноября 2014, 10:57

Historic photographs of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara taken by an AFP photographer shortly after his execution have come to light in a small Spanish town.

• 15 ноября 2014, 13:55

Thousands of Russians gathered outside the former KGB headquarters in Moscow for an annual ritual commemorating the tens of thousands killed in Stalin-era repressions.

• 30 октября 2014, 12:23