| 03/30/2018 22:50 | OSCE trains community police officers in Kazakhstan on combating domestic violence ( AKIpress (press release) )
AKIPRESS.COM - A two-day seminar was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana on the legal acts and mechanisms regulating the police's work in combating domestic violence in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. On the first day, some 150 community police officers from North Kazakhstan ... |
| 03/29/2018 21:20 | Spring festival of Nauryz has reached London ( http://www.kazakh-tv.kz/ )
Spring festival of Nauryz has reached London. Kazakhstan's Supreme Court and the Astana International Financial Center judges doing a six-month internship program in the UK attended the event. They organized a Kazakh corner at the City, University of London where they introduced the guests with ... |
| 03/28/2018 05:15 | Kazakhstan Reacts to Kemerovo Disaster With Snap Checks ( EurasiaNet )
After visiting the Mega Silkway mall in the capital, Astana, Dzhokhar Utebekov, a lawyer, posted pictures to his Facebook page showing blocked exits. He said a security guard told him the doors had been locked for the winter. This was a chilling discovery considering it was a similar oversight that led to ... |
| 03/28/2018 03:40 | Ablyazov's Balloons: Kazakh Opposition Co-opts the Color Blue ( The Diplomat )
Last week, as Kazakhs celebrated Nowruz, people in Astana's central square carrying blue balloons â the color of the Kazakh national flag â were stopped by police. Their balloons were reportedly taken and their identities checked. Sometimes a balloon is not just a balloon. Ahead of the holiday, ... |
| 03/27/2018 22:20 | Kazakhstan: Opposition Figure Sparks Balloon Crackdown ( EurasiaNet )
According to media reports, an unspecified number of people, some of them only a few years old, were stopped by law enforcement officers while out strolling, balloons in hand, at Nowruz festivities in the capital, Astana. On March 26, a representative for the police feebly denied that the instructions to ... |
| 03/27/2018 07:30 | KAZAKHSTAN: Raid, filming, fingerprinting, insults, criminal case ( Forum 18 )
The head of Kyzylorda Regional Police's Department for the Struggle with Extremism, Kuanishbek Urazov, said that Pastor Bisembayev's books had subsequently been sent for "expert analysis" to the capital Astana. "We don't have qualified theologians here who can do such analyses," he told Forum 18 ... |
| 03/27/2018 02:25 | Nursultan Nazarbayev condoles with Vladimir Putin over deaths in Kemerovo ( http://www.inform.kz/sitemap_en.xml (press release) )
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has sent a letter of condolence to President of the Russian Federation ... "On behalf of the people of Kazakhstan and on my own behalf I would like to express our condolences and sympathy to the families and relatives of the ones ... |
| 03/27/2018 01:25 | Nursultan Nazarbayev condoles with Vladimir Putin over deaths in Kemerovo ( http://www.inform.kz/sitemap_en.xml (press release) )
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has sent a letter of condolence to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Kazinform refers to Akorda. "On behalf of the people of Kazakhstan and on my own behalf I would like to express our condolences and sympathy ... |
| 03/26/2018 19:15 | Nursultan Nazarbayev condoled with Vladimir Putin over deaths in Kemerovo ( http://www.inform.kz/sitemap_en.xml (press release) )
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has sent a letter of condolence to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Kazinform refers to Akorda. "On behalf of the people of Kazakhstan and on my own behalf I would like to express our condolence and sympathy ... |
| 03/24/2018 17:15 | Kazakhstan: police hunt for people with blue balloons in search for opposition supporters ( Times of Central Asia )
ASTANA (TCA) â Police in Kazakhstan's capital hunted for people holding blue balloons during Norouz new year celebrations on March 22, following fugitive opposition politician Mukhtar Ablyazov's Facebook call for Kazakhs to express support for his banned movement by displaying blue balloons, ... |
| 03/24/2018 05:20 | Kazakhstan: Old Leader, New Foreign Policy Challenges (RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty)
Kazakh Police Accost People Holding Blue Balloons In Search For Opposition Supporters - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty |
| 03/22/2018 23:50 | Nazarbaev, In Rare Move, Marks Norouz With Mirziyoev In Samarkand ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
In a very rare move, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has marked the Norouz new year holiday in the ancient city of Samarkand in neighboring Uzbekistan, a sign of improving ties following the death of divisive Uzbek leader Islam Karimov in 2016. Norouz is the pre-Islamic Persian New Year ... |
| 03/22/2018 01:25 | Kazakhstan: Child Rape Media Frenzy Puts Officialdom on Trial ( EurasiaNet )
The activists who got involved in making the mother's case claimed this breakthrough as a victory for Kazakhstan's often beleaguered civil society. Moneyed social media users pitched in to pay expenses for Nursultan's mother to hire lawyers and travel to Astana. Others busied themselves amplifying ... |
| 03/20/2018 04:20 | Kazakhstan's BTA Bank recovers rights to port construction in China â board chairman ( TASS )
The High Court of Hong Kong made a decision to return rights to a frozen seaport development project in China to Kazakhstan's BTA Bank, the bank's Chairman of the Board Kenes Rakishev told TASS on ... The enterprise referred to is known as Kazoil-Astana Group, incorporated in Hong Kong in 2001. |
| 03/18/2018 08:25 | UK police launch murder probe into Glushkov death ( Brinkwire (press release) )
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded to the expulsion of their diplomats, saying Moscow will retaliate. Speaking at a press conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, he also hit back at remarks by British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson, who said Thursday that Russia should âgo away and ... |
| 03/18/2018 03:20 | Tokmadi sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for murdering former BTA Bank chair ( Astana Times )
ASTANA â Muratkhan Tokmadi was sentenced March 16 to 10 1/2 years in a maximum-security prison for murdering the chair of the BTA Bank ... in London for contempt of court with a sentence of 22 months and in Kazakhstan â to 20 years in prison for embezzling $7.5 billion from the BTA bank. |
| 03/18/2018 03:20 | In Syria, at least 68 killed in attacks as more people flee (The Daily Star)
Deaths, exodus in Syria - The Daily Star |
| 03/18/2018 02:20 | At least 100 killed in attacks on Syrian rebels, Kurds ( Waterbury Republican American )
BEIRUT â Airstrikes in Syria killed more than 100 people on Friday as civilians, weary and many wounded, fled besieged areas for the second straight day. Syrian government forces stepped up their offensive in the rebel-held eastern suburbs of the capital, Damascus, capturing a major town and closing ... |
| 03/18/2018 00:20 | Turkish FM bashes Kazakh journalist for question over abduction scandal in Switzerland ( Stockholm Center for Freedom )
Turkish Foreign Minister MevlĂźt ĂavuĹoÄlu on Friday refused to answer two questions from a Kazakh journalist during a joint press conference in Astana, likening the journalist to a member of the GĂźlen movement. âIs Turkey's Olive Branch operation in Afrin a violation of Syria's territorial integrity and ... |
| 03/17/2018 23:10 | UK police launch murder probe into Glushkov death ( Anadolu Agency )
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded to the expulsion of their diplomats, saying Moscow will retaliate. Speaking at a press conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, he also hit back at remarks by British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson, who said Thursday that Russia should "go away and ... |
