Village Akims to be elected in August in Kazakhstan
The elections of village Akims will be held throughout Kazakhstan. Maslikhat deputies will be voting for the candidates.
US to support Afghan village operations: envoy
The US military will keep providing logistical support in villages as it hands over the security lead to Afghan forces this spring, Afghanistan's envoy to Washington said Monday.
Media outnumber doomsayers in Turkish 'apocalypse haven'
As the village of Sirince waited for what some say is an apocalypse from which the tiny Turkish hamlet will be spared, its streets were teeming not with doomsayers but a hoard of disappointed journalists.
Kazakhstan President approved Concept of Development of Local Self-Administration
Village Akims (Mayors) in Kazakhstan will get their own budgets and personnel.
Afghan ghost village 'haunted by US soldier's rampage'
Najeeban in southern Afghanistan is a ghost village, deserted by the surviving inhabitants after a murderous rampage allegedly carried out by a rogue American soldier earlier this year.
KMG mulls relocation of two villages in Atyrau oblast for $36 million
KazMunaiGas EP is considering allocation of 5.4 billion tenge for relocation of the citizens of Baishonas and Yeskene in Atyrau oblast.
Kazakh village gets it own Big Ben
A miniature copy of London’s Big Ben has been constructed in Nagi Ilyasov village in Syrdarya region of Kyzylordinskaya oblast.