News about Kazakhstan
Chavez Jr refuses to fight Golovkin
Former WBC world champion Julio Ceasar Chavez Jr has refused to fight against unbeaten Kazakhstani boxer Gennady Golovkin.
21 April 2014
Former world champion challenges Golovkin
Former middleweight WBO champion Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam (29-1, 18 KOs) wants to challenge Gennady GGG Golovkin who is the WBA and IBO middleweight champion.
21 April 2014
Kazakhstan welcomes Geneva agreement on Ukraine
Astana supports the document that includes steps for stabilizing the situation in Ukraine, which was adopted on April 17 in Geneva.
21 April 2014
Easter unites Kazakhstanis: Nazarbayev
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev visited the Ascension Cathedral in Almaty to wish Happy Easter to all Christian Kazakhstanis.
21 April 2014
Golovkin makes Top 10 Most Impressive Boxers
Gennady GGG Golovkin has been named one of the Top 10 most impressive boxers in 2014.
21 April 2014
Peter Baruch's hearing postponed
Peter Baruch detained for corruption of minors in Kazakhstan's Uralsk and Atyrau will remain in custody till the end of the month.
21 April 2014
Eurasian Union to help Kazakhstan survive global competition: Nazarbayev
Any successful integration must be designed to bring economic benefits, which is the case with the Eurasian Economic Union: Nazarbayev.
21 April 2014
Nazarbayev calls for changes in international law
Speaking at last week's session of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev asserted a need for a profound change in the international law and world order towards multipolarity.
21 April 2014
Archeological park to be built in Taraz: 2000 years of history
An archeological park will be constructed around a medieval tower in Kazakhstan's southern city of Taraz by 2017.
20 April 2014
Breast cancer rates in Kazakhstan highest in Central Asia
Kazakhstan has topped Central Asia by breast cancer rates.
20 April 2014
Kazakhstan's Little Brother takes Federal Foreign Office award at goEast
Serik Aprymov’s Little Brother (Bauyr) won an award at the Central and Eastern Europe film Festival goEast from the German Federal Foreign Office.
20 April 2014
You can't choose your neighbors: Nazarbayev about Russia and China
President Nazarbayev once again spoke about Kazakhstan's friendly and allied relations with its big neighbors Russia and China.
19 April 2014
Italy grants refugee status to Kazakh tycoon's family
Italy has granted political refugee status to the family of a Kazakh tycoon, who is in prison in France fighting an extradition order from Russia and Ukraine where he is wanted for massive fraud, lawyers said.
19 April 2014
Interethnic relations are no political game: Nazarbayev
Interethnic relations are not a field for political games, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev stated in his speech at the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan.
19 April 2014
Non-perfoming loans to go down to 10% by 2016 in Kazakhstan: Kelimbetov
The Governor of the Central Bank Kairat Kelimbetov aims to decrease non-performing loans to 10% by January 1 2016.
18 April 2014
Long weekends in May: Work dates in Kazakhstan
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov has signed a governmental decree shifting the dates to make May holidays longer.
18 April 2014
Central Bank to raise requirements to banks tenfold by 2020
Central Bank Governor elaborated that consolidation of banks is needed to ensure their competitive ability given the anticipated entry of subsidiaries of international players after 2020.
17 April 2014
No job without medical examination in Kazakhstan
Medical examination has been proposed as a necessary condition for employment in Kazakhstan in a new amendment to the Code on People’s Health and Healthcare System of Kazakhstan.
17 April 2014
Kazakhstan to cooperate with Bahrain in aluminum production
Kazakhstan and Bahrain have signed a memorandum on cooperation in aluminum production at the Bahrain-Kazakhstan: Strategic Partnership business forum.
16 April 2014
Boston Prisoner's Kazakhstani father denied visa
Amir Ismagulov, the father of Azamat Tazhayakov, who is accused of obstructing justice in the Boston bombings case, has been denied a US visa and might not be able to attend his sons court hearings.
16 April 2014