Boiko, Kazakhstan leadership talk on Ukraine, CU cooperation
Source: Forum
Astana :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-25 08:11:55 -0700 | political-news
Within the framework of his working visit to Astana, Boiko met with Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Serik Akhmetov and vice Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kairat Kelimbetov. The parties discussed issues of deepening cooperation between...
Kazakhstan: Authorities Bust Illicit Gold Mining Operation
Source: Eurasianet
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-24 14:12:20 -0700 | political-news
Officials in Kazakhstan have announced they charged several people involved in a case of illegal gold mining in the western village of Bestyube in Akmol Province, Russia's Lenta.ru , is reporting. Another suspect, who appears to have been a co-organizer...
Kazakhstan: US Investigators Probe Kazakhstanis' Potential Links to Accused Marathon Bomber
Source: Eurasianet
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-24 13:10:50 -0700 | political-news
The Boston Globe reported that the two students were taken into custody on April 20 in the city of New Bedford, about 60 miles southwest of Boston, ostensibly on suspicion of violating the terms of their student visas. According an...
Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical
Source: Virginian-Pilot Online
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-24 00:54:28 -0700 | political-news
In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family members said. Under the tutelage...
Students from Kazakhstan arrested on visa violations
Source: The Boston Globe
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-23 04:31:34 -0700 | political-news
FBI and Homeland Security agents wearing hazmat suits descended on the students' neighborhood on Monday and searched their apartment, according to media reports in New Bedford. Kazakhstan's foreign ministry said US immigration officials discovered the students while investigating the Tsarnaev...
Kazakhstan: Big Brother Monitoring Overseas Students
Source: Eurasianet
Astana :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-18 02:15:59 -0700 | political-news
Kazakhstan's Education Ministry has enlisted the secret police to monitor students studying abroad on a government-sponsored scholarship program. The KNB, successor to the Soviet-era KGB, will ensure the students return home to serve the motherland. The ministry, jointly with the...
Nazarbayev: Kazakhstan's Glass of Democracy "Half or Three-Quarters Full"
Source: Eurasianet
Zhanaozen :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-17 07:35:22 -0700 | political-news
Following last year's crackdown on Kazakhstan's media and opposition, many have wondered what political course President Nursultan Nazarbayev is steering. Today, Nazarbayev delivered his response: Kazakhstan is firmly set on becoming a Western-style democracy, he said but it will take...
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Separated by Growing Digital Divide
Source: Eurasianet
Astana :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-16 23:09:56 -0700 | political-news
They might be neighbors on the map, but Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan couldn't be further apart in how they utilize information and communications technology (ICT). A model for the former Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is charging ahead, according to a new report...
Russian orphanage head probed over teen slave labour
Source: NewKerala
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-16 22:37:54 -0700 | political-news
Director Valentina Tazekenova is suspected of abuse of authority, and withholding salaries worth 1.5 million rubles ($48,300) from teenagers at an orphanage facility in the Orenburg region near Kazakhstan, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Kazakhstan: Evidence Emerges of Government Jobs For Sale
Source: Eurasianet
Astana :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-14 23:40:13 -0700 | political-news
It has long been rumored that huge bribes change hands in Kazakhstan to secure public-service jobs and law-enforcement positions that come with small salaries but enormous potential to make a few bucks on the side. Now comes some indication of...
Stand with us in the upcoming peaceful struggle
Source: SF Bay View
Shu :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-11 21:55:46 -0700 | political-news
California prisoners who backed up their Five Core Demands with hunger strikes peaceful protests in 2011 are gearing up for another such protest to begin July 8, 2013, because their demands, though promised, still have not been met. This banner...
Kazakhstan's Rich-Poor Divide Hits Nazarbayev's Radar
Source: Eurasianet
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-11 12:00:29 -0700 | political-news
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is fond of lauding his oil-rich country's economic successes but now he has acknowledged that they are not trickling down to everyone. Officials must examine how many poor people we have, what the difference between the...
Kazakhstan: Bid To Host Nuclear Fuel Bank Moving Ahead
Source: Eurasianet
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-10 22:19:39 -0700 | political-news
Fresh from hosting international talks on Iran's nuclear program this month, Kazakhstan is quietly pushing its offer to host a global nuclear fuel bank that would serve non-proliferation efforts by providing safe access to low-enriched uranium. Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov...
Kazakhstan: Soldier Suicides Highlight Broader Problems in Military
Source: Eurasianet
Astana :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-09 07:40:19 -0700 | political-news
The suicides of two soldiers on two consecutive days have again highlighted festering problems in Kazakhstan's armed forces. One conscript hanged himself at a military unit Astana on April 4 while the next day a young private killed himself in...
Could An Extraterrestrial Message Be Encoded In Our DNA?
Source: Disinfo.com
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | updated 2013-04-08 16:15:03 -0700 | political-news
Posted by JacobSloan on April 8, 2013 Could a message have been inserted into our genetics billions of years ago, as the most durable method of communicating with intelligent life eons later? Discovery News ponders: Could our genes have an...
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