(SRI) - Karazhanbasmunai, a Kazakh-Chinese joint venture developing the Karazhanbas oil field in western Kazakhstan, said on Thursday its production losses resulting from a long-lasting strike amounted to 17,578 tonnes.

The spread of religious extremism threatens stability in mainly Muslim Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Thursday, urging parliament to adopt tougher laws on migration and religious activity. Oil-producing Kazakhstan, Central Asia's largest and most successful economy, has only recently witnessed outbursts of militant Islam experienced by other former Soviet states in the vast region bordering Afghanistan.

MONTREAL - South Korea President Lee Myung-bak returned home last week from a tour of Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan that helped to raise his country's profile and project its foreign economic diplomacy across Inner and Central Asia while significantly expanding Seoul's ties with the three countries.

(SRI) - Russia’s Interior Ministry has completed a preliminary investigation of several Russian businessmen accused of being involved in a $730-million fraud scheme surrounding land deals of Kazakhstan’s [1] BTA Bank in Moscow, RIA Novosti reported Wednesday.

Der ehemalige Botschafter Kasachstans in Österreich, Rakhat Alijew (Bild), muss einem seiner Ex-Leibwächter, der ihm Entführung und Folter vorwirft, Schadenersatz zahlen. Dies geht aus einem vollstreckbaren Zahlungsbefehl des Bezirksgerichts Wien-Innere Stadt hervor, den zwei Wiener Rechtsanwälte erwirkt haben. Den Advokaten ist es gelungen, Alijew einen Zahlungsbefehl auf eine Wiener Adresse rechtsgültig zuzustellen.