News about Kazakhstan
Volleyball: Kazakhstan wins China at President's Cup
The national women's volleyball team of Kazakhstan has won over the China's team at the 20th International Women's Volleyball Tournament of President of Kazakhstan Cup.
02 July 2013
Russia’s Proton-M explodes at Baikonur
About 600 tons of heptyl, a highly toxic fuel, might have been spilled around.
02 July 2013
Kazakhstan journalists attacked in Lebanon
A camera crew of Channel 1 Eurasia has been attacked in Beirut, Lebanon during shooting of a movie about the Arab Spring.
02 July 2013
Nazarbayev visits pipe fittings plant in Atyrau oblast
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has checked on the only pipe fittings plant in CIS during the visit to Atyrau oblast.
02 July 2013
Yessimov adocates posmortem award for burnt truck driver
Almaty Akim has promised to apply for a postmortem award for Aleksandr Goryunov, if the tests confirm that the driver is not guilty of the tank truck accident in Almaty.
02 July 2013
Funeral of flaring petrol truck driver held in Almaty
A funeral of the flaring fuel tank truck driver Aleksandr Goryunov was held in Baisserke village of Almaty oblast on June 28.
02 July 2013
Chinese CNPC to purchase a stake in the giant Kashagan oilfield for around $5 billion
KazMunaiGas is to sell its stake, purchasing the stake of the exiting ConocoPhillips: Head of KazMunaiGas National Oil Company.
01 July 2013
President Nazarbayev on political repression in Kazakhstan
The West tends to believe that the post-soviet space got stuck in the medieval ages and that we still ride camels, not cars: President Nazarbayev.
01 July 2013
Kazakhstan’s President calling UK’s companies to invest outside the extraction sector
Even if companies enter the country’s O&G sector, the condition is to bring technology to some non-extraction sector: President Nazarbayev.
01 July 2013
Oil trafficking funds Kazakhstan's religious extremists
Illicit trafficking in oil and oil products fuels Kazakhstan's shadow economy and provides funding to organized criminal groups, including radical religious movements: official.
01 July 2013
Boxing: Quillin might be Golovkin's next rival
American boxer Peter Quillin nicknamed Kid Chocolate may be the next rival of WBA world champion Gannady Golovkin of Kazakhstan.
01 July 2013
Volleyball: Kazakhstan volleyball professional marries Slovanian hockeyist
20-y.o. volleyball professional Yelizaveta Shepelenko from Temirtau has gotten married to 27-y.o. Slovanian legionary of Temirtau’s Arystan hockey club Lukash Martinka.
01 July 2013
Cameron unveils oil and gas plant in Kazakhstan
"We're in a global race for jobs and investment. This is one of the most rapidly emerging countries in the world," the prime minister told the BBC in Atyrau on Monday.
01 July 2013
Driver of burning petrol truck named a hero
A minute of silence was observed in tribute to the memory of the 27-y.o. tank truck driver Aleksandr Goryunov at the press-conference on the accident in Almaty.
01 July 2013
Fire-fighters were effecient in quenching petrol truck fire: Almaty Emergency Situations Department
Deputy head of the Fire-Fighting Service of Almaty Emergency Situations Department has evaluated the fire-fightering operation at the petrol tank truck explosion site in Almaty.
01 July 2013
Entering WTO will not halt state support to Kazakhstan producers
Kazakhstan’s accession into the WTO will not mean a reduction in the state support to the local producers: Agriculture Minister.
01 July 2013
Boxing: Kazakhstan's Golovkin KOs Macklin
Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan has knocked out British Matthew Macklin with a hook to his liver.
01 July 2013
Almaty citizens offer help to owners of burnt apartments
Almaty citizens are offering help to the owners of the apartments that burnt in the petrol tank truck explosion.
01 July 2013
Presidents of Kazakhstan and Belarus to exchange visits in autumn
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev is planning to visit Belarus in October, 2013 to take part in the session of the CIS Council of the Heads of States.
01 July 2013