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02/04/2018 19:25Kazakhstan prosecutes 320 people for corruption, returns $43 million to national economy in 2017    ( Astana Times )
ASTANA – The Kazakh Civil Service Affairs and Anti-Corruption Agency registered 1,835 corruption-related crimes in 2017 and prosecuted 320 individuals, according to agency chair Alik Shpekbayev. The number of cases is 18 percent less than 2016. The measures returned nearly 14 billion tenge ...
02/04/2018 09:20Russia confirms pilot's death after plane shot down in Syria    ( Kuwait News Agency )
Russia, Turkey, and Iran, the co-sponsors of the intra-Syrian peace talks, signed an agreement in Astana, Kazakhstan, in September 2017 on the de-escalation zones in Syria, including Idlib. Since then, Moscow has stepped up its airstrikes in Syria, targeting 45 locations in Idlib, Hama, Aleppo, and ...
02/04/2018 06:40Syrian opposition announces death of Russian pilot in Idlib    ( Kuwait News Agency )
Russia, Turkey, and Iran, the co-sponsors of the intra-Syrian peace talks, signed an agreement in Astana, Kazakhstan in September 2017 on the de-escalation zones in Syria, including Idlib. Turkey had launched operation "Olive Branch" against separatist Kurds in Afrin, northwest of Syria, to eliminate ...
02/03/2018 07:30Kazakhstan: Terrorist Plot — or Concocted Conspiracy?    ( EurasiaNet )
Lawyers, relatives and supporters of Almat Zhumagulov and Kenzhebek Abishev, two suspects in the alleged terrorist plot in Kazakhstan, stand outside an Almaty court on January 19, 2018. (Photo by Joanna Lillis) .... Astana's hatred for Ablyazov cannot be underestimated. And the feeling is mutual.
02/01/2018 12:20UK judges head new court in Kazakhstan    ( The Times )
... commercial court in Kazakhstan, with eight other judges and senior lawyers from the UK. The move follows similar courts in places such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar and is being established as part of a modernisation programme involving the Astana International Financial ...
02/01/2018 12:20Jealous woman who 'chopped off boyfriend's WILLY' arrested    ( Daily Star )
The woman, who works at a beauty salon in Astana, Kazakhstan, then allegedly injected him with a local anaesthetic and cut off his willy. Nurzhanova then drove the victim to hospital for treatment, where she was arrested after doctors called the police. Unfortunately for the victim, surgeons have been ...
02/01/2018 07:30Woman arrested after 'cutting off her boyfriend's penis in fit of jealousy' because 'he complimented ...    ( Mirror.co.uk )
... complimentary comment about the appearance of the woman, who is described as an acquaintance. Nurzhanova is accused of secretly giving her boyfriend a sleeping pill and waiting for him to pass out at their home in the city of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Astana, Kazakhstan, where the crime ...
01/31/2018 18:45Honesty, swiftness and courtesy needed for KazPost to succeed    ( Astana Times )
Everything is in our hands; we only need honesty, swiftness and courtesy, as well as an unwavering determination to create the most client-oriented company in Kazakhstan. This is what we want to learn and we will learn it from the best in this field. For this purpose, we recently organised in Astana a ...
01/31/2018 06:30KAZAKHSTAN: 279 known administrative prosecutions in 2017    ( Forum 18 )
In addition, when an Astana court fined the company Mega Plaza on 27 November 2017 for hosting a Muslim prayer room (namazkhana), it also banned the prayer room for three months. The Jehovah's Witness regional headquarters in Almaty was banned for three months for having insufficient security ...
01/30/2018 17:35Changes in Kazakhstan life for 2018    ( Astana Times )
ASTANA – Pensions have increased, prices for foreign passport registration and railway tickets have risen and police will be warning before fining. The coming year will bring many innovations, both pleasant and not, and Kazpravda.kz correspondents have prepared a special survey on the ways ...
01/29/2018 22:30Court Thwarts Kazakh Activist's Request To Serve Prison Term Closer To Home    ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
ASTANA -- A court in Kazakhstan has ruled against an imprisoned activist who wants to serve his five-year sentence at a penitentiary closer to home. In a January 29 ruling, a judge in the capital rejected Maks Boqaev's appeal against the order that sent him to a prison in northern Kazakhstan, far from his ...
01/28/2018 01:40Over speeding car turns turtle in Gujranwala road accident    ( Daily Pakistan )
ASTANA – A young woman from Kazakhstan was left with frostbite on both thighs after she went out in a short skirt in -40 degrees. The woman, whose name has not been released, studies law at a university in Astana. She wore a pair of tights for protection against the bitter conditions but still ended up ...
01/27/2018 00:30Kazakh Activist Jailed For Protests Says 'No Shame' And No Regrets    ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
ASTANA -- A Kazakh activist serving a five-year prison term for his role in protests against land reforms in 2016 says he has no regrets and feels no shame. Maks Boqaev spoke to RFE/RL via the Internet on January 26, during a break in a court hearing on his appeal against his transfer to a prison in the ...
01/26/2018 21:55Years of fruitless efforts to end Syria's war    ( News24 )
In January 2017 the three sponsors organise talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, between representatives of the regime and a rebel delegation. They hold seven rounds of negotiations, reaching an accord on the setting up of four "de-escalation" zones in Syria, leading to a decrease in violence. A peace ...
01/26/2018 17:30Body of Kazakh businessman killed by terrorists to return home    ( http://www.inform.kz/sitemap_en.xml (press release) )
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - A Kazakh businessman killed in the recent terrorist attack in Kabul will return home to be laid to rest, a source at the Kazakh Ministry ... "His body will arrive in Kazakhstan in the coming days and the Ministry will cover all related expenses," official spokesman Anuar Zhainakov told ...
01/26/2018 16:50Body of Kazakh businessman killed in Kabul to return home    ( http://www.inform.kz/sitemap_en.xml (press release) )
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - A Kazakh businessman killed in the recent terrorist attack in Kabul will return home to be laid to rest, a source at the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed. "His body will arrive in Kazakhstan in the coming days and the Ministry will cover all related expenses," official ...
01/26/2018 04:20Prominent US Human Rights Lawyer Takes Up Case of Jailed Kazakh Businessman    ( The Diplomat )
Kazakh authorities also link Yerimbetov to Ablyazov via Yerimbetov's sister, Bota Jardemalie. Jardemalie, a Harvard-trained lawyer, has been granted political asylum in Belgium. As one of Ablyazov's lawyers, she has been pursued by Astana, also accused of corruption. In 2013, Ablyazov was arrested ...
01/25/2018 22:20Kazakhstan says freeze lifted on $22 billion in sovereign-fund assets    ( Times of Central Asia )
ASTANA (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan say a Dutch court has lifted a freeze on Kazakh sovereign-fund assets worth $22 billion, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. The Kazakh Justice Ministry said in a statement on January 24 that it was also seeking the cancelation of a court ruling in Belgium that ...
01/25/2018 18:50Hotel assault: Kazakh citizen among the dead    ( Pajhwok Afghan News (blog) )
(Pajhwok): At least one Kazakh citizen has been killed in the terrorist attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Astana confirmed on Sunday. According to KazTag, Anuar Zhainakov, the ministry spokesman, wrote on his Facebook page: “A citizen of Kazakhstan, born in 1978, died ...
01/25/2018 18:50UNSC hot seat: 'Kazakhstan will anchor peace, prosperity in region'    ( The Express Tribune )
... weapons test site in Kazakhstan — one of the largest nuclear weapon test sites in the world. Dr Sarwat Rauf, from the National University on Modern Languages, spoke on Kazakhstan's role in Afghan peace process. She said that since Astana is a member of various international and regional bodies, ...

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