Kazakhstan News

The Aksaray theater troupe performed Avalanche, by Turkish playwright Tuncer CA1 4cenoAYlu, last spring in Almaty to raise money for the victims of social unrest in the town of Zhanaozen in December 2011.

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov paid a state visit to Kazakhstan on May 10-11. According to Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov , the Turkmen-Kazakh summit talks resulted in the signing of bilateral documents aimed at the "further deepening and development of inter-state relations based on unbreakable ties ... (more)

Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Thursday that nuclear talks with the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton were "long and useful" and that both sides decided to continue the discussions.

Spoilt for choice with shopping malls mushrooming all around them, Almaty's shopaholics now have an option that harks back to earlier times, when shopping was a more refined experience, with the opening of a GUM department store in Kazakhstan's commercial capital.

The official visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrisov to Spain took place on May 13-14, reported the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan.

When Kazakhstan became independent 22 years ago and inherited some of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, it decided to give them up.

Space station Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn undocked their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft from the space station at 7:08 p.m. EDT.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield returns to Earth tonight with a landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan scheduled for 9:31 p.m. CT.

The central Asian country is positioning itself as a global nuclear leader, but it's haunted by the lasting impacts of Soviet testing decades ago.

Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have launched a direct railway linking their oil-and-gas-rich Caspian Sea regions, bypassing Uzbekistan.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 10 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan signed a number of documents on cooperation within the talks of the Presidents of two countries in Astana on Friday, the Kazakh presidential press-service reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 10 / Trend E. Kosolapova/ Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan intend to develop trade and economic relations, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said following the talks with his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on Friday in Astana, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported.

On May 6, the Minister of Economy and Budget Planning of Kazakhstan Erbolat Dosaev paid a working visit to Beijing and met with the Minister of Commerce of the People's Repiblic of China Gao Hu Cheng, Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan reported.

The modern history of independent Azerbaijan's oil industry is directly linked with the name of Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev, head of the Kazakh oil transportation company KazTransOil, Kairgeldy Kabyldin told Trend.

The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev presented awards and awarded the highest military ranks to Kazakh military servicemen on May 6, according to the press service of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The United Kingdom has denied entry to a Kazakh artist who does not have hands because he cannot provide fingerprints, he says.

High-end luxury vehicles sit parked on the gated grounds of the Prince casino in Kazakhstan's gambling enclave of Kapshagay, an hour by car north of Almaty.

The European Union says its senior diplomat will meet Iran's top nuclear negotiator on May 15 as a follow-up to the last round of six-power negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program.

Asserting that Afghanistan can't recover without its neighbours, the United States of America today commended Kazakhstan and India for playing instrumental roles in the strengthening the stability of Afghanistan.

Photo: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen as it launches from Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Friday, March 1, 2013.