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Villages treatened by flood in Pavlodar oblast Several villages are under threat of flood because of snow melting in Pavlodar oblast.

22 March 2013

German villagers bury 'Big Bad Wolf' fears Thirteen years after wolves returned to an east German village, its residents have not only overcome age-old fears to live peacefully alongside the predator but even come to enjoy the benefits of its presence.

01 March 2013

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.

28 February 2013

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.

16 January 2013

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.

21 December 2012

Kazakhstan President approved Concept of Development of Local Self-Administration Village Akims (Mayors) in Kazakhstan will get their own budgets and personnel.

28 November 2012

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.

05 November 2012

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.

04 May 2012

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.

23 April 2012