Five representatives of the Italian parliament arrived in Almaty to meet with Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of former chairman of BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov.
A Russian Proton-M rocket exploded ten seconds after launch from Baikonur on July 2nd, destroying three Glonass (Russian GPS) satellites it was carrying.
Romania-based Rompetrol, part of KazMunaiGas Kazakh National Oil Company, already possesses a substantial part of energy assets in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Turkey and France.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday issued an official reprimand to the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos after a series of embarrassing rocket launch failures.
The adoption order on the former orphans from Kazakhstan who are testifying in the U.S. against their adoptive parents was issued by Petropavlovsk court in 2004.