President Atambayev received congratulation messages from CIS ...

The New York Eurasian Film Festival kicks off on May 20 with "Awakening," a documentary film from Kazakhstan about "green development." The film is the brainchild of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaevs youngest daughter, Aliya Nazarbaeva. The ...

ASTANA The Customs Union that includes Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus, is gradually moving towards a Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). This May, the governments of these three states should prepare a plan of concrete actions to create an EEU. A year ...

Despite harsh words from the United States and European Union about Kazakstan's worsening human rights record, the country's leaders are unlikely to modify their behaviour, local analysts say. It is a simple equation placed in the balance against ...

09/05/2013 | Tom Lines In a contest for best macroeconomic management, Russia could lay claim to be the world's star performer. But it will have to make some changes Russian economic growth slowed from 2011's 4.3% to 3.4% in 2012 and is projected at ...

A woman has been promoted to the rank of general within the Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office for the first time ever. President Nursultan Nazarbaev presented the general's insignia to Saule Aitpaeva on May 6. Aitpaeva, 52, is the chairwoman of the ...

The withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan should not have a disastrous impact on regional security, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev said on Thursday. Reportedly, the Kazakh President rejected possible negative scenarios linked to ...

ASTANA - As the withdrawal of the coalition forces from the long-suffering Afghanistan is getting closer, the White House visits to Central Asia have become more frequent. Last week, the region was visited by , Robert Blake. At a meeting with the ...

The Soyuz launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan - (NASA/Bill Ingalls) By Ivan Safronov KOMMERSANT/Worldcrunch MOSCOW - In December, the Kazakh space agency announced that it was going to be reevaluating the terms under which Russia ...

MINEX Central Asia 2013 - the 4th Mining and Exploration Forum was held from 16 to 18 April 2013 in Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan. The Forum was organised with the official support of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of ...