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11.07.2007 11:34 msk Kazakhstan Politics
OSCE and CIS observers arriving in Kazakhstan these days will monitor the parliamentary election scheduled for August 18. Observers are in a hurry because the official campaign of election of the Kazakh Majilis (lower house of the parliament) begins on July 16. It should be noted as well that the el
04.07.2007 11:08 msk Kazakhstan Politics
President Nursultan Nazarbayev is the head of the Nur Otan People's Democratic Party.
01.07.2007 17:32 msk Kazakhstan Politics
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Kazakhstan's chances of becoming president of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe depend, among other things, on how strictly the parliamentary elections due in August will comply with international standards.
25.06.2007 11:28 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Two largest opposition parties in Kazakhstan announced their merger into one structure on June 23. Their intention to do so made public only on June 11, the whole process unbelievably took less than a month.
09.06.2007 12:32 msk Kazakhstan Religious life
Followers of non-traditional confessions in Kazakhstan worry that the authorities are about to put them under an even greater pressure this year. As far as official Astana is concerned, everyone who does not belong to the Kazakh Religious Administration of Moslems is non-traditional, and that even a
06.06.2007 11:53 msk Interview Kazakhstan
Rahat Aliyev, former ambassador of Kazakhstan to Vienna and President Nursultan Nazarbayev's son-in-law, elaborates on his arrest in Austria, plans, family situation, and Kazakh political system. Charged in Kazakhstan with illicit seizure of land plots and buildings, forgery, extortion, and abductio
04.06.2007 11:02 msk Interview Kazakhstan
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov visited Moscow last week. Masimov claims that Astana will participate in all gas pipeline projects that promise benefits to Kazakhstan.
04.06.2007 11:01 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan was the source of all political news in the post-Soviet zone last week. Scandalous as it is, "Rahat Aliyev's affair" seemed to push all other news into the background. In the meantime, Kazakhstan's aspirations for regional leadership are undeniably more important. Moreover, President Nurs
04.06.2007 10:06 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Rahat Aliyev, 44, former Kazakh ambassador to Austria and representative at the OSCE better known as the husband of president's daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva, was arrested in Vienna last Friday. The arrest was authorized by the Austrian authorities. Official Astana had put Aliyev's name on the interna
30.05.2007 09:23 msk Kazakhstan Politics
The authorities of Kazakhstan are determined to bag and bring home Rahat Aliyev, 44, President Nursultan Nazarbayev's son-in-law whose name is on the international list of wanted criminals. Charges of abduction and economic crime were pressed against Aliyev last week. Aliyev was relieved of the duti
23.05.2007 15:25 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Nursultan Nazarbayev. Ferghana.Ru photo President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the amendments to the Constitution that transformed the country into a presidential-parliamentary republic, cut down the term of office for president from seven to five years as of 2012, and granted the curre
21.05.2007 09:54 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
The news that the parliament of Kazakhstan permitted Nursultan Nazarbayev to run for president as many times as he decided to was broken when this correspondent was approaching Volga Cliff, the spa where the Russia-EU summit was to commence in an hour or two. The news was shocking. President for lif
18.05.2007 15:31 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Kazakhstan Today news agency reports that the joint meeting of both houses of the parliament of Kazakhstan adopted amendments to the Constitution in the second reading.
28.04.2007 11:21 msk Business Kazakhstan
Baker Hughes, an American company providing services in the oil and gas industry, confessed having bribed Kazakh state officials. According to the information compiled and released by SEC, Baker Hughes paid some Kazakhoil executives $4.1 million via a go-between to ensure its victory in the contest
27.04.2007 22:16 msk Interview Kazakhstan
Jamarhan Tujakbai "I'm convinced that the next president of Kazakhstan will wield lesser power. As a matter of fact, the current head of state may make this decision with regard to whoever will come to replace him. The very logic of the authoritarian regime prompts him to try and remain the one and
09.04.2007 10:44 msk Business Kazakhstan
Rates of growth and levels of developments in the meantime vary from country to country. Kazakh banks did the best and reached the level typical of the most advanced countries of the world (in the context of the national economy, of course). Russian banks remain at the average CIS level.
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