Karaganda, Kazakhstan News

Primates in a Kazakhstan zoo are enjoying a very human remedy against cold weather, with fortified wine added to their daily ration this week, local media reported.

Kazakhstan, Astana, Feb. 3, / Trend T.Nurmagambetov / Incident occured at the Shakhtynsk JSC "ArselorMittalTemirtau" mine in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, the press service of Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan told Trend.

Nine special economic zones as well as two industrial zones in Astana and Karaganda function in Kazakhstan, the Kazakh Prime Minister's official website said.

Former akim of Karagandy province Serik Ahmetov has been appointed as a first Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, said the statement at the official microblog of the Kazakh cabinet of ministers in Twitter on Friday.

Nurlan Nigmatulin has been elected as Chairman of the Majilis at a meeting of the first session of the new parliament.

If information on the fact that deputy chairman of the ruling party of Kazakhstan "Nur Otan" Nurlan Nigmatulin retains his post is confirmed weight of the former Karaganda head will significantly increase, a member of Trend Expert Council, the chief editor of the Caucasus Bulletin news and analytical agency Alexei Vlasov said.

As questions linger over the role of the security forces in and around Kazakhstan's riot-torn western town of Zhanaozen, where 17 protestors were shot dead last month, Kazakh police who took part in quashing the protest are being showered with gifts, TV Channel 31 reports .