Viewing results 1 - 6 of 2149
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan will take part in a meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC countries if it receives an invitation, Kazakh Energy Minister Vladimir Shkolnik said on the sidelines of the Parliament’s meeting on March 10, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on March 5 visited the country’s first McDonald's restaurant in Astana with the purpose to encourage foreign investors to come and invest in Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev’s Spokesman Dauren Abayev wrote on the official page of the presidential office in the Facebook. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The first "Brand of Nation" food market opened on March 5 in the Kazakh capital Astana, which sells domestically-produced food only, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Norway in Astana Vegard Stensrud discussed issues of cooperation with Kazakhstan’s western Mangistau region, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on its website on March 4. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — When in late summer 2014 Kyrgyzstan’s then Interior Minister Abdulla Suranchiyev revealed names of local people’s representatives accusing them of “ties with organised crime,” a shockwave went through the country and beyond. Crime in Central Asia is a long ignored fact that is a deadly danger for the society. Of course, everyone knew about the organized crime groups and their ringleaders dubbed “avtoritety,” an equivalent for the western “godfathers,” but hardly anyone so far had realised that their power over the economy and indeed society itself had become so dangerously strong, exceeding that of the much-feared terrorism made in Afghanistan and the Near East. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan's economy has been hurt by the economic slowdown in China and recession in Russia, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said during his meeting with the heads of foreign diplomatic missions in Astana on March 2, RFE/RL reported. Continue reading
