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Conservation groups expressed outrage Friday after resistance led by China and Russia stymied efforts to carve out new marine sanctuaries and protect thousands of species across Antarctica.
A Russian rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off successfully on Tuesday for the International Space Station.
Chinese ratings agency Dagong said Tuesday it was tying up with US and Russian partners to form a new "independent" group to rival US-based agencies it claims have "proven inadequate".
Russia placed a leader of mass protest rallies against President Vladimir Putin under house arrest on Wednesday after questioning him in a criminal probe into allegations he was plotting a violent uprising.
He said that when commenting on some of President Nazarbayev’s remarks that have been interpreted in the media as if Kazakhstan were going to give up on integration with Russia in favor of pan-Turkism ideas.
Kazakhstan's Barys hockey club defeated Moscow’s Spartak 5:1 at home.
The US has denounced Russia's policy of aiding the Syrian regime as "morally bankrupt," as tensions between Damascus and Ankara escalate over cargo seized from a Syrian passenger plane.
Kazakhstan designer Kamilla Kurbani is sure that her 2013 pret-a-porter spring-summer collection will be a success at Aurora Fashion Week.
Nursultan Nazarbayev held several meetings with heads of major Russian companies in Moscow.
A member of the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot freed unexpectedly from prison on Wednesday vowed defiantly hours later that the group's protest actions would continue.
It was announced following the talks of Presidents Nazarbayev and Putin in Moscow October 9.
Ilya Ilyin, two-time Olympic champion, said that he wouldn’t be taking part in the Russian Federation President's Weightlifting Cup.
Russia and Kazakhstan are implementing perspective projects on the use of Baikonur cosmodrome, including creation of Baiterek joint launching facility.
Russia eyes a record arms deal and rare agreement over Syria on Tuesday when it hosts Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the first time in almost four years.
More than one thousand Russian, Armenian, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan military men are participating in the training.
According to Russia’s Izvestiya newspaper, further implementation of the current taxation scheme may lead to Russia missing out on tax revenues of up to $ 1 billion a year.
Putin turned 60 the official retirement age in the country he has dominated for the past 12 years, as critics snickered that his image of an energetic, young macho leader no longer corresponds with his age.
According to Russia’s Izvestia newspaper, “it means the start of the decline of the cosmodrome still ranked first by the number of launches”.
The problem is that Kazakhstan plans to eliminate Euro-2 only by 2014, while Russia has a plan to do it in 2013: Igor Artemyev.
A court in Kazakhstan has banned as "extremist" the anti-Islamic film that sparked deadly protests across the world.
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