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Putin has 'no intention' of further military moves into Ukraine: Ban The UN secretary general said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin assured him he had no intention of orchestrating further incursions into Ukrainian territory.

29 March 2014

Russia to deploy Iskander missiles at Kazakhstan border Russia will place its Iskander mobile ballistic missile systems at the border with Kazakhstan.

28 March 2014

Russian rocket lands near Kazakh village A Russian rocket has unexpectedly slumped near Shungay village in Bokeiorda region of West Kazakhstan Oblast.

28 March 2014

Russian spacecraft brings three-man crew to ISS after two-day delay A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man Russian and US crew on Friday docked successfully at the International Space Station after an unprecedented two-day delay caused by a technical hitch.

28 March 2014

IMF bails out Ukraine as UN rejects Russia's Crimea annexation The IMF announced a $14-$18 billion bailout for Ukraine on Thursday as the UN General Assembly refused to recognise Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula.

28 March 2014

Nazarbayev and Putin discuss priorities Nursultan Nazarbayev and Vladimir Putin have a complete mutual understanding on all the aspects of the bilateral cooperation.

27 March 2014

Will anti-Russian sanctions affect Kazakhstan? President Nazarbayev has assured that Kazakhstan will not suffer from the economic sanctions imposed on Russia by some of the countries.

27 March 2014

Earth Hour to tap crowdfunding for green campaigns Lights will go off in some 7,000 cities around the world for this weekend's Earth Hour event, which will aim to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for environmental projects worldwide.

27 March 2014

China firm aims for the sky with Russia plane project: reports A little-known Chinese firm hopes to set up a facility to assemble regional jets made by Russia's Sukhoi in a multi-billion-dollar deal, state media reported.

27 March 2014

Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus to launch a single banking regulator by 2025 According to Russia’s First Vice PM Igor Shuvalov, there is an agreement for the single regulator to be based in Kazakhstan.

26 March 2014

Kazakhstani writer Ilya Odegov shortlisted for Russian Award Kazakhstani writer Ilya Odegov was shortlisted for the International literary competition Russian Award in the Flash Fiction category.

26 March 2014

Obama in Brussels for EU-US summit President Barack Obama pays his first visit ever to European Union headquarters, cementing US-EU opposition to the takeover of Crimea after hitting out at Russian expansionism as a "sign of weakness".

26 March 2014

Kazakhstan increases wheat export to Russia by one third Russia imported 571.7 thousand tons of wheat via railway from Kazakhstan from July 1, 2013 to February 28, 2014 that is 35.8% more than last agricultural year.

26 March 2014

Russian-US crew blast off for ISS from Kazakhstan A crew of two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off Tuesday from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station, with US-Russia space cooperation pressing on despite the diplomatic standoff over Ukraine.

26 March 2014

Kazakhstan’s President comments on the situation in Ukraine In the recent years the country’s leadership has been hesitating trying to choose between closer ties with the EU and ties with Russia, between participating in the CIS and staying away from the integration: Nazarbayev.

26 March 2014

Jeff Monson KOed by Kazakh MMA fighter in Almaty Kazakh mixed martial arts fighter Shakhmaral Dzhetpisov has KOed Jeff Monson.

25 March 2014

Chechen president dedicates Israel's biggest mosque The head of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, inaugurated Sunday Israel's largest mosque, in a village near Jerusalem whose inhabitants claim descent from Muslim migrants from the Caucasus.

24 March 2014

Ukraine concerned with Kazakhstan's acceptance of Crimean referendum The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine referred to Kazakhstan's acceptance of the referendum in Crimea as an unneighborly act.

22 March 2014

Russia's expulsion from G8 must be discussed: Cameron British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that G7 nations meeting next week must discuss the permanent expulsion of Russia from the wider G8 if it takes further action to destabilise Ukraine.

20 March 2014

Japan PM threatens Moscow with more sanctions over Crimea Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned Russia for violating Ukraine's territorial integrity and threatened to impose further sanctions against Moscow over its role in the Crimean crisis.

19 March 2014

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