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Article | May 20, 2012 - 9:03pm

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko have agreed to jointly battle efforts to use human rights issues for exerting political pressure, the Belarusian president's press office said.

Article | May 16, 2012 - 11:34am

Representatives of railway administrations of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iranagreed to create a tripartite Committee.

Article | May 15, 2012 - 4:18pm

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko have agreed to jointly battle efforts to use human rights issues for exerting political pressure, the Belarusian president's press office said.

Article | May 15, 2012 - 2:49pm

BEIJING - The list of countries which decided to join, albeit as observers or just dialogue partners, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), is increasing each time.

Article | May 6, 2012 - 10:04pm

Prosecutors in Kazakhstan have characterized foreign correspondents as "evil" in an indictment accusing 37 residents of the Zhanaozen oil town in western Kazakhstan of inciting and participating in mass unrest that led to at least 16 deaths.

Article | April 29, 2012 - 8:41pm

A journalist in western Kazakhstan, who writes critically about the Central Asian nation's authoritarian government, has been stabbed and shot in an attack that his colleagues say may have been motivated by his reporting.

Article | April 22, 2012 - 9:26pm

A regular government session was recently held under the aegis of Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov to discuss issues of improving the customs administration of goods and the preparation process for the spring sowing campaign in the country, Gazeta.kz reported. 

Article | April 19, 2012 - 4:35pm

STRASBOURG - On 18 April, European Parliament Members adopted by a large majority two resolutions that make recommendations to the Council and the Commission on lines to take when negotiating association agreements with Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Article | April 17, 2012 - 9:03am

Export potential of the three biggest grain producers in the world, like Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine this year will be approximately 55m-56m tonnes.

Article | April 15, 2012 - 7:30pm

Kazakhstan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yerzhan Kazykhanov recently met with Saudi counterpart Prince Saud Al-Faisal in Riyadh. 

Article | April 8, 2012 - 8:11pm

At the first plenary session of Nuclear Summit in Seoul, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev called for stringent measure against countries which use nuclear weapons, Gazeta.kz reported.

Article | April 8, 2012 - 8:08pm

Within the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev met his Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak.