Kazakhstan News

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.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev during a meeting in Aktyubinsk Septmber 22.

ASTANA. September 18. KAZINFORM. /Medina Sadbenova/ On September 16, 2008 in the Cultural Center of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan the Days of Jordanian Culture started.

Seeking to diversify Kazakhstan's economy, government officials are considering changes to the county's tax code that would aim to stimulate economic activity among small- and medium-sized businesses.

Kazakhstan will increase oil production by 12 million metric tons in 2009 and is interested in pumping it via Russia, the Kazakh president said Monday.

During a working visit to Kazakhstan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev of the republic.

The Russian mining and metals giant Mechel plans to build a $500-800 million ferroalloys plant in Kazakhstan within the next four years, the company's chief operating officer said on Monday.

AKTOBE. September 20. KAZINFORM /Samal Yendibayeva/ - The V Forum of the near-border regions of Kazakhstan and Russia will be opened in 2 days.