Almaty, Kazakhstan News

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Kyrgyz singer Tata Ulan combines the Kyrgyz recitation, or manaschi, tradition with pop music, for a unique modern-day sound.

Snow and strong wind, in some areas with snowstorm, are forecasted today in the west and south of Kazakhstan, the country's Emergency Situations Ministry said with reference to the Kazakhstan Hydrometeorological Service.

The British Burlington company offers Almaty the services in attracting investors in the tourism and sports, Burlington senior partner Deborah Mills said during a meeting with Akim of Almaty Akhmetzhan Yesimov, the mayor's press office said.

Kazakhstan, Astana, Feb. 10 / Trend T.Nurmagambetov / Four people killed in fires, reports the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

Kazakhstan-based Air Astana continues to expand its Central Asian network as it takes delivery of Embraer E-190 aircraft, enabling the carrier to offer new international services from Astana to Ulan Bator, Mongolia and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and from Almaty to Kazan, Russia.

ALMATY, Kazakhstan &#8212 Media in Kazakhstan are reporting that a major oil-refining plant in the southern city of Shymkent has been damaged in a fire.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 4 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Kazakh national major air carrier Air Astana signed an agreement with Boeing Corporation to purchase four Boeing 767-300ER aircrafts and three aircrafts of Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner brand in Almaty on Saturday, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported.

ALMATY: A zoo in the freezing steppes of Kazakhstan is giving its monkeys red wine to ward off winter colds, its chief animal specialist told AFP on Friday.

A crackdown on Kazakhstan's political opposition, activists and media critical of Astana is continuing: Less than a week after opposition leaders were jailed for rallying in Almaty without permission, more protest participants have been taken to court while other political activists face separate, more serious charges over December's violence in ... (more)

The Kazakh security service, or KNB, must immediately cease intimidating Oksana Makushina, deputy editor of Golos Respubliki , and return reporting equipment confiscated today from the independent weekly, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

I'm digging through the archives today selecting images for an upcoming exhibition in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

On Jan. 26, the container train Saule departed from Klaipeda's train station. The 45-container train carrying various goods is planned to arrive at Almaty, Kazakhstan after eight days' travel, Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai said, reports ELTA.

It is an honor and a pleasure to join you today for this discussion and celebration of Kazakhstan's twentieth anniversary of independence and the wide-ranging and deep cooperation between the United States and Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan's opposition leader Amirzhan Kosanov, secretary-general of the Social Democrats, gestures before a rally in Almaty, Jan.

Arrested in Almaty at the end of a series of raids on the offices of several independent news media, Vinyavsky has been charged under article 170 of the criminal code with distributing leaflets calling for the government's overthrow.

Some 300 opposition activists staged a rare rally in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Saturday to protest recent elections and the violent suppression of a group of oil workers.

Hundreds of opposition supporters have gathered in Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty, to protest the results of recent elections and the violent suppression of an oil workers protest last month.

Hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday defied a heavy police presence to stage a rare protest in Kazakhstan against strongman President Nursultan Nazarbayev and the conduct of legislative elections.

An unauthorized rally protesting the recently held parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan begun in downtown Alma-Ata on Saturday, a RIA Novosti correspondent said.