News about Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan to harvest over 16 million tons of grain Kazakhstan expects to harvest around 16.3 million tons of grain (net weight) by the end of the agricultural year.
05 August 2013 17:30
Italian deputies visit Shalabayeva in Kazakhstan Five representatives of the Italian parliament arrived in Almaty to meet with Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of former chairman of BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov.
05 August 2013 17:16
Football: Shakhter wins over Albanian Skenderbeu at Champion League Two-time champion of Kazakhstan FC Shakhter has won over Albanian Skenderbeu club in the 3rd round of the Champion League.
05 August 2013 16:36
Almaty airport to be overhauled The project envisages expanding the current terminal to accommodate 2600 passengers an hour as compared to the current 1600 passengers an hour.
05 August 2013 16:36
4-5 Proton-M carrier rockets will be launched from Baikonur before the end of 2013 A Russian Proton-M rocket exploded ten seconds after launch from Baikonur on July 2nd, destroying three Glonass (Russian GPS) satellites it was carrying.
05 August 2013 14:43
Adai horse wins race in Moscow Kazakhstan's Adai horse Oily has won a race at the CIS Cup (Commonwealth of Independent States) in Moscow, Russia.
05 August 2013 14:37
Ablyazov may be jailed for 12 years in Ukraine Kazakhstan's ex-banker Mukhtar Ablyazov may be sentenced to 5 to 12 years in jail in Ukraine where he is accused of fraud.
05 August 2013 14:31
70 percent of water supply networks worn out in Kazakhstan The tear and wear of the water supply networks in Kazakhstan has reached 70 percent, which is the main cause of the blowouts here and there.
05 August 2013 14:24
Kazakhstan doesn’t exclude supplies of natural gas to Romania 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.
05 August 2013 13:56
Financial monitoring unveiles 360 case of terrorism financing in Kazakhstan The Financial Monitoring Commission of the Kazakhstan Finance Ministry revealed 360 cases of financing of terrorism.
05 August 2013 13:18
Russia PM reprimands space chief for failures 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.
05 August 2013 12:31
MP suggests returning adopted children back to Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Senate deputy Gani Kassymov has suggested to return all the children adopted by foreign citizens back to Kazakhstan.
05 August 2013 10:43
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev meets Iran’s acting Vice President Es-haq Jahangiri Among other things President Nazarbayev came to Iran to attend President Hassan Rouhani’s inauguration.
05 August 2013 10:20
France wants till spring 2014 to decide on Ablyazov's extradition French court is not planing to decide on the possible extradition of Mukhtar Ablyazov any earlier than in spring 2014.
02 August 2013 18:58
More details of Ablyazov's arrest and future plans The operation to arrest Mukhtar Ablyazov involved 3 investigators and 12 officers of French elite police and a helicopter.
02 August 2013 18:23
Russia mulls requesting Ablyazov's extradition from France Russian authorities are preparing documents to request extradition of the former chairman of BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov recently arrested in France.
02 August 2013 17:55
Kazakhstan Minister Kairbekova denies being blackmailed by U.S. Ambassador Kazakhstan Healthcare Minister Salidat Kairbekova waived away being blackmailed by former U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan Richard Hoagland
02 August 2013 15:30
Kazakhstan children allegedly raped in U.S. are from Petropavlovsk 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.
02 August 2013 15:15
Drastically higher taxes on powerful cars will only be applied to 2.8% of all cars in Kazakhstan The country’s media reported earlier that Kazakhstan’s respective ministries seek to raise taxes on cars equipped with engines of 3-4 liters from the current $169 to $746 depending on the engine volume.
02 August 2013 14:58
Details of Kazakhstan taekwondo champion's arrest in London unveiled 18-y.o. Kazakhstan taekwondo champion Azamat Tenizbayev is in pretrial detention pending a hearing on accusations of sexual harassment.
02 August 2013 14:36
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