Kazakhstan dropped AO Transtelecom, the provider of phone and Internet services headed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev's grandson, from its list of state-run companies slated for sale through initial public offerings.
Today has began a two-day official visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov in Hungary, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reports. During the first day of the visit Idrissov opened the meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The meeting discussed the problems associated with the intensification of bilateral cooperation in political, trade, economic and cultural spheres as well as preparation for the upcoming 2014 visit of the President Nursultan Nazarbayev to Hungary which will give powerful impetus to the strengthening of the Kazakh-Hungarian relations.
The two students –Dias Kadyrbaev and Azamat Tazhayakov -- are facing federal charges that they obstructed the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 by allegedly disposing of a computer and backpack belonging to accused bomber Djokhar Tsarnaev. A hearing in their case is scheduled for May 14. If convicted, they face five years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. The Kazakhstani pair and Tsarnaev were constant companions for much of the past two years while taking classes at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, roughly 60 miles south of Boston, according to a criminal complaint filed in US District Court on May 1.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will pay an official visit to St. Petersburg on Nov. 21-22. Among the delegates to accompany Erdoğan will be Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız and Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan. Prime Minister Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu attended the G-20 summit held in St. Petersburg on Sept. 5 and 6.
After two Kazakh students are charged with disrupting the investigation into the Boston bombing, residents from Kazakhstan defend their compatriots. The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect exchanged text messages with a friend who had become suspicious after seeing what looked like a familiar face on television, authorities say. That friend and two others now stand accused of aiding the suspected bombers.
Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna said it's scrapping a planned acquisition of three pension funds controlled by commercial lenders after Halyk Bank halted talks on buying the government's shares in BTA Bank. "Taking into account that the sale of BTA Bank to Halyk won't happen, Samruk-Kazyna doesn't plan to purchase stakes in pension funds, including Halyk's unit," the Astana-based wealth fund said in a statement e-mailed today.
(SRI) - Kazakhstan currently does not have sufficient gas capacity to join the proposed Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, Kazakhstan's Minister of Oil and Gas Sauat Mynbayev said on Thursday, the Kazakhstan-Novosti news agency reported.
