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Hopes for stronger ties as Hollande visits Algeria President Francois Hollande arrives in Algeria on Wednesday seeking to end simmering resentment over French colonial rule and bolster ties with the OPEC country.
19 December 2012
Blowout of heating pipeline in Almaty. Photo by Alisher Akhmetov© 60 percent of Almaty heating network worn out Head of Almaty heating network explained the reasons of two recent blowouts that left many Almaty citizens without heating.
19 December 2012
Horse races. Photo courtesy of kaskarau.kz Best racehorses chosen in Kazakhstan 4-y.o. Ihavenotime racehorse became the winner of three categories: the Horse of the Year, the Best Senior Horse and the Best Stayer.
19 December 2012
Gulnara Birzhanova. Photo courtesy of the official Miss Tourism World 2012 website Kazakhstan beauty won Miss Photogenic at Miss Tourism World 2012 Russia’s Tatyana Maksimova became Miss Tourism World 2012, while Kazakhstan beauty became Miss Photogenic of the pageant.
19 December 2012
Tengrinews.kz stock photo Russian Ruble lays claims on common currency role in Customs Union Introduction of a common currency inside the Eurasian Economic Community that includes Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus is irrelevant: Russian President's advisor.
19 December 2012
South Koreans vote in presidential election South Koreans cast their votes Wednesday in a tight and potentially historic presidential election that could result in Asia's fourth-largest economy selecting its first female leader.
19 December 2012
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder. Photo courtesy of fanday.ru Wikipedia founder to visit Kazakhstan in 2013 Wikipedia’s Kazakh segment has risen to the 25th position. The audience has also grown from 500 000 pages viewed a month to over 8 000 000 pages viewed.
19 December 2012
©RIA Novosti Kyrgyzstan threatens Kazakhstan with claims for gas deficit Legal and financial claims could be filed against Kazakhstan's KazTransGas for limitation of gas supplies to Kyrgyzstan.
19 December 2012
Group defiant over US ban on tackling Japan whalers US conservation group Sea Shepherd vowed Tuesday to fight a US court order to stay at least 500 yards away from Japanese whaling ships, and to keep protecting whales "with our ships and our lives."
19 December 2012
Wreckage of MI-8 helicopter. Photo courtesy of Kazakhstan Emergency Situations Department© Families of MI-8 crash victims to get 3 million tenge each Families of the crew members of MI-8 helicopter who died in its crash in Almaty oblast will receive 3 million tenge ($20 thousand) each.
19 December 2012
Light rail tram. Photo courtesy of nnm.ru 50 light rail trams to be launched in Astana before EXPO-2017 The plan is to construct 3 lines, 42 stops and launch around 50 trams: Alstom.
19 December 2012
Kazakhstan to boost gas supplies to Kyrgyzstan starting from December 19 Kazakhstan’s Gas Shipping Company had limited gas supplies to Kyrgyzstan starting from December 13 due to failed gas supplies from the neighboring Uzbekistan and ensuing gas shortages in the south of Kazakhstan.
19 December 2012
©RIA Novosti Maternal mortality dropped 3-fold in 5 years in Kazakhstan According to the official statistics, maternal mortality went down almost 3-fold in the last 5 years in Kazakhstan, while infant mortality dropped 1.4-fold: press-service.
19 December 2012
Baikonur cosmodrome. ©RIA Novosti KazKosmos Head’s remarks over Baikonur distorted by journalists: Foreign Minister According to him, It would be unwise on Kazakhstan’s part to lose the opportunity to closely cooperate with such a full-fledged space power as Russia.
19 December 2012
Rocket launch from Baikonur cosmodrome. ©RIA Novosti Talks over co-use and co-management of Baikonur to start in Q1 2013 The lease contract was signed in 1994. The contract is obsolete: Kazakhstan President’s representative at Baikonur.
19 December 2012
Air Astana to buy three Boeing 787 Dreamliners Chairman of Air Astana told about the company's plans for the nearest future.
19 December 2012
Photo by Yaroslav Radlovskiy© North-Kazakhstan oblast to attract $200 million in foreign investments by 2015 An investors forum was held in North-Kazakhstan Oblast of Kazakhstan.
19 December 2012
Photo courtesy of Huawei official website Chinese giant intends to win Kazakhstan market Major Chinese telecommunications company Huawei has officially announced its entrance into the Kazakhstan market.
19 December 2012
Illustration by Tengrinews.kz Kazakh Wikipedia ranked 25th in the world The number of entries in Kazakh Wikipedia has exceeded 200 thousand bringing the Kazakh language online encyclopedia to the 25th place among other Wikipedia languages.
19 December 2012
©REUTERS AU Optronics executive guilty in LCD price-fixing case A US jury on Tuesday found a former senior manager at Taiwan-based AU Optronics Corp. guilty of taking part in a global scheme to rig prices of liquid crystal display screens.
19 December 2012

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