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NUR-SULTAN – Tajik Language and Culture centre opened Oct. 1 in the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Tajik Consul General Bakhodur Nazir and the Kazakh National University Provost...
NUR-SULTAN – Rakhat Company has continued to maintain its leadership in the Kazakh confectionery market in the first half of the year, modernising internal policy and entering...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh airlines carried 5.6 million passengers in the first eight months of 2019, showing a 1.8 percent increase over 2018, said Kazakh Minister of Industry...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin won Oct. 6 a fight for the IBF and IBO middleweight champion titles against the Ukrainian boxer Sergei Derevyanchenko. The fight...
NUR-SULTAN – AZEL Urban & Unique Jewelry is the fashion project of two creative friends, stylist Asel Junus and architect Zauresh Kazybayeva. The duo created the line...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan increased social spending 28 percent in the first eight months of 2019 over the same period 2018, reported Ranking.kz. The country spent 2.3 trillion...
NUR-SULTAN – Japan-based Tokyo Rope International Inc. recently opened a representative office in Atyrau. The company will begin protecting the Ural River shore next year and also...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) yearly report presented Aug. 29 reviewed the centre’s key projects and achievements for 2018-2019. Among the key projects, the...
NUR-SULTAN – Vainakh (Our people) Chechen-Ingush ethno cultural centre in Semei helps all ethnic minorities to preserve their traditions and identity, said leader Sultan Kartoyev. Under the...
The opportunity for global leaders to meet as they did in New York at the United Nations last month is always significant. But what made the formal...
NUR-SULTAN – Positioned as a transit and trade bridge between Europe and Asia, located at the crossroads of Islamic, Confucian and East Christian civilizations, Kazakhstan plans to...
NUR-SULTAN – State Politics in Mass Media Department Director Bahniyaz Karashina announced the state plan to apply tax incentives to develop Kazakh print media at the Sept....
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan has granted visa-free entrance to 12 additional countries – Bahrain, Colombia, Indonesia, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Oman, the Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, the Vatican and...
NUR-SULTAN – The capital akimat (administration) will be purchasing 100 new electric buses from the joint venture between Chinese Yutong and Kostanai-based SaryarkaAvtoProm. The buses will save...
NUR-SULTAN – Girls 10-14 debuted at the start line Sept. 28 of the annual Almaty Women’s Race in Atakent Park. Rima Grankina took the top spot among...
NUR-SULTAN – U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan William H. Moser cut the red ribbon Oct. 3 to officially open Kunshyaq, the capital’s second inclusive playground accessible to children...
NUR-SULTAN – Online document processing, soft loans and preferential lending are some of the measures introduced by the government to stimulate the country’s businesses. Signing documents to...
NUR-SULTAN – In her recent open letter to the world’s children, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore stressed the need to work with today’s...
NUR-SULTAN – Construction, IT and electronic materials for government use will only be available after a pre-selection stage, said First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance...
NUR-SULTAN – Nazarbayev University recently hosted the national finals of the ClimateLaunchpad 2019 green technologies entrepreneurship ideas international competition, reported science-fund.kz. “ClimateLaunchpad provides a great opportunity to...
NUR-SULTAN – Kulanshi Forte Bank Nur-Sultan art gallery launched Sept. 26 an exhibition of restored Soviet-era paintings dating to the 1950s and Soviet posters from the 1970s...
NUR-SULTAN – The Cervantes Institute recently hosted a presentation of anthologies of modern Kazakh prose and poetry published in Spanish at its headquarters in Madrid, Kazinform reports....
NUR-SULTAN – Ninety-seven percent of rural settlements or more than 5,000 villages will gain broadband internet access by the end of 2022 and satellite technology will be...
Agriculture and livestock exports present huge opportunities for countries in Central Asia. Kazakhstan, already one of the world’s largest wheat exporters, selling over nine million tons annually,...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for a removal of trade barriers within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) during the Oct. 2 Supreme Eurasian Economic Council...
NUR-SULTAN – Aliya Galimova, Chair of the Committee on Civil Society Affairs of the Ministry of Information and Social Development introduced the draft action plan for the...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana International Exchange (AIX) listed Russia’s oldest and most traded exchange-traded fund (ETF) Sept. 24 and two days later, Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund...
NUR-SULTAN – Lukoil, the Russian multinational energy corporation, has invested more than $9 million to construct a lubricant production plant in the Almaty Region. The company plans...
NUR-SULTAN – Water, gas and electrical access work, as well as construction of the entrance highway, have been completed at Karalmy Resort in the Zhambyl Region. The...
NUR-SULTAN – More than 1,000 people in Almaty and the capital attended public lectures and participated in training on the way neurobiology is changing the learning process...
NUR-SULTAN – The relatively young diplomatic relations between Kazakhstan and Rwanda have a great potential to flourish and materialise in mutually beneficial agreements in trade, industry and...
NUR-SULTAN – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide additional funds of up to $328 million to support Kazakhstan as a regional leader in...
NUR-SULTAN – More than 500 cross-country runners from Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey and Tajikistan participated Sept. 29 in the Race Nation Burabay at the ski-jumping complex in Shchuchinsk,...
NUR-SULTAN – Leading IT specialists and technology entrepreneurs will take a comprehensive look at Kazakhstan’s digital ecosystem at the Oct. 24-25 Digital Bridge 2019 international technology forum...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan received Sept. 25 International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Council President Certificate for progress in resolving aviation security and oversight deficiencies at the 40th ICAO...
NUR-SULTAN – The First President’s Foundation will support green economy development in Kazakhstan by implementing new renewable energy projects such as wind and solar-powered stations, training specialists...
NUR-SULTAN – More than 20,000 people have signed an online petition at change.org demanding the Almaty Zoo be shut down. The petition is titled “We demand to...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is a country where one can experience all four seasons, yet many tourist resorts and activities are only available in summer or winter. What...
NUR-SULTAN – The founder of an organisation that assists people with visual impairment, such as himself, meet the challenges of everyday life has been named one of...
NUR-SULTAN – A business delegation of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council visited Shymkent, Kazakhstan’s third largest city, Sept. 18-19 to set up partnerships and expand bilateral...
NUR-SULTAN – The Karaganda Region recently launched a 50-megawatt solar power plant in the village of Agadyr, Shetsky District. The Karaganda Region has become a leader in...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Government plans to build new resorts in the Karaganda Region as well as improve the Balkhash Resort and other priority tourism areas in...
NUR-SULTAN – The 12th KazEnergy Eurasian Forum opened Sept. 26 in Nur-Sultan with discussions on the future of energy and the role Kazakhstan will play in that...
NUR-SULTAN – The Nur-Sultan Akimat (city administration) over the past few months have added new streetlights, courtyards, playgrounds and other public facilities to many parts of the...
NUR-SULTAN – The British Library in London hosted Sept. 25 a presentation of modern Kazakh poetry and prose anthologies, which were translated to English as part of...
NUR-SULTAN – The Accounts Committee for Monitoring the Implementation of the National Budget recommends reducing the subsidisation of air and railway transportation in the draft national budget...
NUR-SULTAN – Kuat Yessenov, a Kazakh now living in the United States and working for Google, was recently named one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces for his...
NUR-SULTAN – As the Asian Development Bank (ADB) celebrates 25 years of its partnership with Kazakhstan, the bank has invested more than $5 billion in sovereign loans,...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana Opera will present for the first time Oct. 11 and Oct. 13 “Don Carlos”, a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi based...
NUR-SULTAN – Ambassadors Spouses Association (ASA) Vice President and wife of United Nations Resident Coordinator Hitomi Shimomura will host the JP to KZ (Japan to Kazakhstan) charity...
NUR-SULTAN – Four Kazakh athletes won medals in trap shooting Sept. 24-25 at the 9th Asia Championship in Baiserke village near Almaty. Two medals were won by...
NUR-SULTAN – The Taraz akimat (city administration) is building what will be the largest tourist centre in Kazakhstan. The city administration is building the Shakhristan historical and...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh National Museum will present “The Great Steppe: History and Culture” exhibition at the Department of Museums of Malaysia Oct. 1-31 in Kuala Lumpur....
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev reaffirmed his country’s commitment to seeking a nuclear-weapons-free world in his address to the Sept. 24 74th Session of the General...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will cooperate in developing pilgrimage tourism, Uzbekistan Tourism Development Committee head specialist Saidkomil Khalkhidjayev told 24.kz. Specifically, new roads and airway routes...
NUR-SULTAN – Smart bus stops, an open-air movie theatre and glass police booths will be installed in Turkestan by 2020-2021, Akim (Mayor) Rashid Ayupov told tengrinews.kz Sept....
NUR-SULTAN – More than 77,000 individuals have graduated from the Bastau Business (Start Business) and Zhas Kasipker (Young Entrepreneur) programmes since their launch in 2017, said Atameken...
Adopted on September 24, 2019 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan We, the participants of the 4th Meeting of Speakers of the Eurasian Countries’ Parliaments under the theme of...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s First President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, urged the national parliaments of Eurasia to be more involved in shaping their nations’ policies and in strengthening international cooperation...
NUR-SULTAN – Nur-Sultan’s latest serviced offices, for-lease office spaces opened Sept. 20 in Talan Towers. The Talan Towers Executive Hub is a 1,276-square metre space on the...
TOKYO – Kazakh nuclear disarmament activist and ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador Karipbek Kuykov presented his paintings depicting the horrors of nuclear weapons testing and the use of...
The Kazakh Foreign Ministry concluded the results of the second session of the Islamic Organisation for Food Security (IOFS) General Assembly in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The meeting...
Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Court Chief Justice Lord Harry Woolf presented his book “A Vision of the AIFC” at the court Sept. 17 to the legal...
The Lukoil Lubricants Central Asia plant was launched Sept. 20 in the Ili district of the Almaty Region. The facility, with a capacity of 100,000 tonnes of...
Kazakhstan experienced an 8.3-percent increase in the telecommunications market from January-August, year-on-year (yoy) with service sales revenue at 519.9 billion tenge (US$1.34 billion). Internet services account for...
NUR-SULTAN – Narvik, one of Norway’s largest ports, can become an Atlantic port for Kazakhstan, said Narvik Port Authority Director and CEO Rune Johan Arnøy. He was...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh wrestlers secured eight Olympic licenses for the country’s team at the senior World Wrestling Championship that ended Sept. 22 in the capital. The competition,...
It would be hard to think, as we look around at increased global tensions, of a time in recent years when the need for dialogue, trust and...
NUR-SULTAN – “Old World Order / New World Orders,” a new moving image work and media art exhibition presenting the works of six contemporary British artists from...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh company Genesis.KZ recently received an international quality certificate from the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) for using genotyping of cattle to confirm breed...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s machinery industry turnover has surpassed one trillion tenge (US$2.58 billion) for the first time, reported Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar Sept. 12 at the...
NUR-SULTAN – Young Kazakh athletes Aknur Akzharkenova, Lestein Aslambekov, Arua Beikhari, Altynai Kazbekova and Akbota Rysbekova took the medal stand at the Sept. 12 World Para Dance...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh-Czech cooperation has reached a new high this year, with a $1 billion trade turnover. Education and cultural sectors are an equally important priority, noted...
NUR-SULTAN – Shymkent Central Park hosted the eight annual Old Vinyl festival, Sept. 15, gathering more than 1,000 music lovers, young and old, reported otyrar.kz. The event...
NUR-SULTAN – International energy corporations heads will discuss how global market trends will affect the energy sector during approximately 20 events to be held as part of...
NUR-SULTAN – One of Kazakhstan’s most innovative photographers Aióny Haust says he draws his inspiration from films, art, other photographers, and, definitely, music. “I have a playlist...
NUR-SULTAN – The Fund of the First President of Kazakhstan plans to start scientific and practical research and find ways to improve competitiveness, said Executive Director of...
NUR-SULTAN – Left wing forward Bulbul Kartanbay has become the first Kazakh athlete to play in the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) after signing Aug. 16 with...
NUR-SULTAN – East Kazakhstan’s Vozrozhdenie (Revival) German association, one of the oldest ethno-cultural centres in Kazakhstan, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The centre has been uniting and...
NUR-SULTAN – ENEVERSE KUNKUAT, a subsidiary of Singapore-based companies, launched Sept. 3 a 100 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in the Almaty region near the city of...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s wildlife and unique environment were identified as some of the main advantages of travelling in the country during a recent public talk by travel...
NUR-SULTAN – After almost a decade’s effort, Kazakhstan plans to launch in January 2020 a new system of compulsory insurance. The system is meant to lower the...
NUR-SULTAN – Turkestan Region deputies and regional governmental body heads agreed on the way to distribute the budget, which increased by 29.6 billion tenge (US$76 million), at...
NUR-SULTAN – Materials from the cases of former BTA Bank Board of Directors Chairperson Mukhtar Ablyazov and former Almaty Akim (Mayor) Viktor Khrapunov will be transferred to foreign jurisdictions...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin met Sept. 13 with Turkish-Kazakh Business Union (TÜKİB) representatives headed by board chair and Eksen Group owner Firat Develioglu to...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov discussed bilateral relations, international issues and the situation on the Korean Peninsula with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon and...
NUR-SULTAN – Approximately 220 tour operators and 250 travel content providers from 60 countries gathered Sept. 18-20 in Nur-Sultan’s Korme Exhibition Centre for the Pacific Asia Travel...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev made changes Sept. 18 to the leadership of some key government agencies and ministries. Tokayev appointed Roman Sklyar as Deputy Prime...
NUR-SULTAN – “Under One Sun,” the TEDx conference held Sept. 15 in the capital, focused on ideas that help overcome differences. “It was chosen as a guideline...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will launch a new high-speed telescope to study gamma-ray bursts in distant galaxies, reports Nazarbayev University. Scientists recently assembled and conducted preliminary tests with...
NUR-SULTAN – Capital fashion designer Nagima Kaidarova is devoted to instilling love of Kazakh culture and traditions through her ethnically-stylised clothes. Although she studied graphic design at...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is one of the world leaders in chromite mining, production and reserves, according to the United States Geological Survey. The country was the third...
NUR-SULTAN – Approximately 1,000 athletes from 105 countries gathered in the Kazakh capital Sept. 14 to compete for 108 Olympic bids at the Senior Wrestling World Championship....
LONDON – The ATOM Project Honourary Ambassador Karipbek Kuyukov called on people around the world to sign The ATOM Project’s online petition to permanently end nuclear weapons...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh citizens under the age of 29 with full-time employment will be able to rent apartments for between 10,000 tenge (US$25.8) to 12,000 tenge (US$31.0)...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh National Bank plans to limit the maximum interest rate on microloans to 30 percent, according to the recently drafted Resolution of the Board...
NUR-SULTAN – Uzbekistan will become a member of the Cooperation Council of the Turkic-speaking States (CCTS), also known as the Turkic Council, reports Turkkon.org. Uzbek President Shavkat...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana International Finance Centre (AIFC) is developing a framework to facilitate the growing green finance sector in Kazakhstan, AIFC Board Chairman Kairat Kelimbetov told...
NUR-SULTAN – Astana Opera musicians and artists will present in September projects for children and perform Gioacchino Rossini’s one-act operatic farsa comica “La Scala di Seta” for...
NUR-SULTAN – Sell-out and critically acclaimed British concert “Byron: Angel and Outcast” is coming to Astana Concert Hall. The performance, slated for 7 p.m., Sept. 21, recounts...
