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Kazakh mayor accuses international media of 'promoting' homosexuality
Astana mayor Tasmagambetov spoke about the importance of education and called the Kazakhstan citizens to safeguard their children from the "brainwashing" coming from abroad.
26 August 2014
Alexander Vinokourov charged with corruption
Belgian prosecutors have charged Kazakhstani Olympic Champion in Cycling Alexander Vinokourov with private corruption.
26 August 2014
World premier of Abai and Shakarim suites in Carnegie Hall in November
The world premier of the Abai and Shakarim suites will open at Carnegie Hall in New York on November 12, 2014.
26 August 2014
Alarming proportions of child and youth suicide in Kazakhstan
Suicide, especially among children and adolescents, is an alarming problem for Kazakhstani officials. Together with UNICEF Kazakh pscyhiatrists conducted a study into the causes of youth suicide, and the prelimitary results may help address the problem.
26 August 2014
Committee heads of Kazakh Investments and Development Ministry appointed
The Minister of Investments and Development of Kazakhstan Asset Issekeshev has made a number of appointments within his ministry.
26 August 2014
Astana Opera House goes global
Kazakhstan's Astana Opera troupe will tour the United States of America, Canada, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
26 August 2014
Fight Golovkin in true Mexican style: Rubio
WBC interim middleweight title holder Marko Antonio Rubio sees Gennady Golovkin as the biggest challenge in his career.
26 August 2014
Golovkin voted best opponent for Froch
Carl Frotch asked fans to chose the best opponent out of Golovkin, Chavez and DeGale.
26 August 2014
Half-dead Caspian Mullet fish wash ashore in Mangystau Oblast
In Kazakhstan's Mangystau Oblast, mullets wash ashore of the Caspian Sea.
26 August 2014
What is to be expected from Kazakhstan during Minsk talks?
Kazakhstan is taking part in the talks in Minsk on August 26. These will address the ongoing crisis in Ukraine among others. Poroshenko is to meet with Putin, Lukashenko and Nazarbayev, as well as with EU reps.
25 August 2014
Tosca opera to open Silk Road Festival in Astana
Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca with Anna Pirozzi, Massimo Giordano and Alberto Gazale will open the Silk Road festival at the Astana Opera theater.
25 August 2014
Man drowns while rescuing his drowning daughter in western Kazakhstan
A man has drowned while rescuing his drowning daughter in the Ural River, Atyrau Oblast, western Kazakhstan on August 20.
25 August 2014
Boarding school in decay in Karaganda
A boarding school for visually impaired children in the city of Karaganda in central Kazakhstan is in decay.
25 August 2014
Russian poetry and Kazakh music heavyweights in gay smooch
The recent Kazakhstani ad showing a Kazakh composer and a Russian poet kissing has generated an outpouring of discontent in Kazakhstan.
25 August 2014
Kazakhstan may remain dependent on Russian petroleum products through to 2019
As of now Russia accounts for 1/3 (1.36 million tons) of all the petrol consumed in Kazakhstan and for about 14% (0.7 million tons) of diesel fuel.
25 August 2014
Kazakh smartphone produced in China may enter international market
Zerde smartphone designed by Kazakhs from Urumqi, China may enter the international market.
25 August 2014
Golovkin-Rubio unify middleweight titles: Winner to face Cotto
Kazakhstani Gennady Golovkin (30-0, KOs 27) will face Mexican Antonio Rubio (59-6, KOs 51) in a unification fight.
25 August 2014
Dias Kadyrbayev to get no more than 7 year sentence after pleading guilty
Kazakh student Dias Kadyrbayev has formally pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice in Boston bombings case two weeks before the trial.
25 August 2014
CSTO Secretary General meets with Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs
Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha has met with Yerlan Idrissov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.
25 August 2014
President Nazarbayev on sanctions against Russia and their impact on Kazakhstan
According to him, escalation of the situation in Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions are to have an adverse effect on the Eurasian Economic Union.
25 August 2014