Kazakhstan News

WASHINGTON, DC. October 9. KAZINFORM. Kazakhstan's vast energy resources, rapidly growing economy, and important geographical position make the country a key player both in global energy markets and regional ...

ALMATY. October 7. KAZINFORM. /Daurenn Zhailin/ "Since gaining the independence Kazakhstan has been pursuing a well-balanced state policy the sphere of religious relations," chairman of the Senate ...

ALMATY. October 7. KAZINFORM. /Yerlik Yerzhanuly/ Kazakhstan and Ukraine expand cooperation in the space sphere year by year.

A 62-year-old Binghamton University distinguished professor remains under house arrest tonight in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan, awaiting trial on charges of currency smuggling.

ASTANA. October 8. KAZINFORM /Aigul Tulekbayeva/ President Nursultan Nazarbayev has received letters of credence from first Swiss Ambassador to our country Stefan Nellen, Kazinform reports.

Lakshmi Mittal, head of the world's number one steel company ArcelorMittal, confirmed plans to invest in Kazakhstan despite turmoil on global financial markets.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to Kazakhstan are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that America was not playing a "zero-sum game" with the Kremlin to pry resource-rich former Communist states from Russia's influence.

Iran's first exclusive oil industry exhibition kicked off in Kazakhstan's port city of Aktau, MNA reported.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is leading U.S. efforts to court energy-rich Kazakhstan, the former Soviet republic balancing close relations with Russia and openings to the West after Moscow's invasion of Georgia.

As Rice seeks improved ties, democracy and human rights seemed likely to take a back seat during her visit Sunday to Astana, capital of the vast Central Asian nation. The stop is intended to signal U.S. rejection of Moscow's claim to a sphere of influence in the region.

The top U.S. diplomat, who was in India on Saturday, planned to stress Kazakhstan's potential as an alternative energy supplier. Her schedule included meetings with Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin, Prime Minister Karim Masimov and President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the country's autocratic ruler.

VIENNA, Austria : A former ambassador from Kazakhstan says his country's president wants him killed, according to an interview with an Austrian magazine released in advance on Saturday.

Kazakhstan's top election authority declared Saturday's parliamentary elections valid a few hours after polls closed.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit India this weekend, officials said on Thursday, celebrating a foreign policy victory on a nuclear trade pact while encouraging India to buy American technology.

ALMATY, Kazakhstan - A court in Kazakhstan has dropped drunken-driving charges against a man who admits he had a few drinks before he was arrested.

ASTANA. September 3. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ Law On ratification of the Agreement in a form of exchange of notes between Kazakhstan Government and North-Atlantic Treaty Organization on conditions of the ...

KAMENOGORSK. October 1. KAZINFORM /Ludmila Malko/ Today within a working visit to the East Kazakhstan oblast Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev will visit Predgornoe village of Krasnoyarsky district.

URALSK. September 23. KAZINFORM /Gaisagali Yeraly/ Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev, who is having a working trip to the West Kazakhstan oblast has visited West Kazakhstan Machine-Building Company JSC ...

MADRID. September 29. KAZINFORM. 'EXPO-2008 Saragossa' world exhibition, the greatest event in world exhibition industry, has defined its winners.

Kazakhstan-Russian integration in the sphere of innovations - an element to take a niche in the world technological space, President ASTANA-AKORDA. September 23.

As long as Kazakhstan still aspires to enter the top 50 most competitive states of the world , the republic has managed to enter another list of countries, unfortunately, a shameful one.