Kazakh, Azerbaijan News

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 20 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Kazakhstan's Financial Police Agency has detained the Deputy Minister of Education and Science Sayat Shayakhmetov and General Director of 'Management of Education and Science Projects Construction' A. Pak, the press service of the financial police reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 17 /Trend E. Kosolapova/ A new head will be appointed for the North Caspian Productions Operations Company, which is Kazakh Kashagan project's operator, on the eve of oil production start at Kashagan field, Kazinform reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 14 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ The economic growth can hit 5 percent in Kazakhstan in 2013, but growth level will be depend on the realization of the planned major projects in the sphere of natural resources extraction, the director in the sovereign analytical group specializing on ratings of European countries with developing ... (more)

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 13 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Kazakh Foreign Ministry facilitated visa arrangements for foreign tourists and entrepreneurs, the Ministry reported.

The conservative council, made up of six clerics and six jurists, will publish the final candidate list later this month.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 10 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan signed a number of documents on cooperation within the talks of the Presidents of two countries in Astana on Friday, the Kazakh presidential press-service reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 10 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan intend to develop trade and economic relations, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said following the talks with his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on Friday in Astana, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported.

The modern history of independent Azerbaijan's oil industry is directly linked with the name of Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev, head of the Kazakh oil transportation company KazTransOil, Kairgeldy Kabyldin told Trend.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia is quite content with Azeri President, having no interest in promoting democracy in the country, Azerbaijani-American screenwriter, dramatist, producer and public figure Rustam Ibragimbekov said.

"He wasn't a star student, but he wasn't a hooligan; he was a normal teenager," teacher and deputy principal Yuri Dovgal said.

Kazakhstan's oil exports to Asia are on the rise as it seeks to cultivate new buyers for its light crudes outside the saturated European market before steep output increases in the next few years.

Kazakhstan's oil exports to Asia are on the rise as it seeks to cultivate new buyers for its light crudes outside the saturated European market before steep output increases in the next few years.

Almaty , April 26: India said Friday it wants to see Afghanistan as a "possible driver of economic growth in the region" and warned that the "greatest challenge" posed to Afghanistan is the "persistent threat of terrorism that emanates from beyond its borders", a clear reference to the Taliban and other extremists operating from Pakistan.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Apr. 25 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said on Thursday that it had assigned its 'BBB+' long-term and 'A-2' short-term issuer credit ratings and 'kzAAA' Kazakhstan national scale rating to KazAgro National Management Holding JSC, the primary vehicle for providing Kazakh government financial support to ... (more)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Apr. 25 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Kazakh Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko within his official visit to Belarus, the prime-minister's press-service reported on Thursday.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azeri soldier at a Baku-based military unit, Khayyam Asif Oglu Bayramov stabbed his fellow serviceman Kamran Firdovsi Oglu Mamedov, aged 19.