President Nazarbayev sets the task to have the Kazakh language transit to the Latin alphabet by 2025
Currently Kazakh language relies on the Cyrillic alphabet.
Kazakhstan to develop a State Program to Counteract Religious Extremism and Terrorism
At the same time President warned that “measures to counteract extremism should not transform into witch-hunt and shouldn’t grow into moves to counteract religion”.
President has set a goal to boost state support to the agriculture sector 4.5 times
According to him, the measures should result in the share of agriculture in the GDP growing 5-fold by 2050.
By 2050 Kazakhstan to meet the domestic demand for environmentally friendly fuel
Investors should be attracted on condition they transfer the most advanced technology in both extraction and processing: President Nazarbayev.
I want to reiterate there should be no language discrimination: President Nazarbayev
We should appreciate Russian language as a long-time advantage of the Kazakhs: President.
Kazakhstan isn’t changing priorities in its foreign policy: President Nazarbayev
We clearly say that political independence of Kazakhstan is inviolable: President.
Adherence to radical Islamic movements is a way back to the Medieval times: President Nazarbayev
According to him, when sticking to Islam canons, the modern generation should pay homage to our national traditions.
Non-extraction industries to double by 2025 and triple by 2040: President Nazarbayev
According to him, in 2012 Kazakhstan will be numbered among the top 50 nations in the world in terms of its GDP.
President Nazarbayev calls to spend within capacities to bring the budget deficit to its possible minimum
We need a favorable tax regime to support industrial production, new technologies and overall industrialization efforts: President Nazarbayev.
Restricting gamblers from gambling venues suggested in Kazakhstan
Communist faction of Kazakhstan Majilis applied to the President with a request to introduce limitations on activities of betting shops and online casinos.
All kinds of heart surgeries are available in Kazakhstan: Yuriy Pya
Chairman of the National Scientific Cardiac-Surgery Center Yuriy Pya assured President Nazarbayev that Kazakhstan people no longer had to go abroad for heart surgeries.
Nazarbayeva calls parents to be more sly than children in Internet use
Majilis deputy Dariga Nazarbayeva believes that parents have to control access of their children to harmful information on the Internet.
Supreme Mufti of Kazakhstan called citizens to put doomsday out of their heads
Rumors have been spreading that we will have to face an apocalypse. People are getting scared and stocking up on food. All this is a groundless lie: Mufti.
Beginning of 2013 will be difficult for Central Asian countries
The beginning of 2013 will be difficult for Central Asian countries because of this year’s drought in the grain-yielding regions of the world.
Plane deicing cost 30-folded in heavy snowfall in Almaty
Treatment of one Air Astana plane with deicing fluid cost $90 thousand during heavy snowfall on December 1.
Chinese part derailed freight train in Kazakhstan
A freight train ran off the track near Astana and caused delays of 17 passenger trains in both directions.
Danial Akhmetov and Akhmetzhan Yessimov received First President's awards
Prior to the Independence Day Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev handed state awards.
Serik Akhmetov met with head of Chevron
Kazakhstan Prime-Minister Serik Akhmetov met with chairman and CEO of Chevron corporation John Watson.
Nazarbayev will make State-of-Union Address to people of Kazakhstan tomorrow
The official meeting will be held in the new Opera and Ballet Theater on Astana’s Left Bank.
German company suspected of bribery in Kazakhstan
GfT Bautechnik, an affiliated company of ThyssenKrupp, took part in construction of artificial islands in the Caspian Sea and supplied cutoff piling there.