After news emerged last week that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had included Kazakhstan on a list of countries "that have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members," the Kazakhstan government has publicly objected and the U.S. embassy in Astana has stepped back from the claim.
A 51-year-old policeman has been sentenced to jail for accepting money from the Kazakh secret service.
Jahrelang drückten sich die Wiener Strafbehörden vor Ermittlungen gegen Rachat Alijew. Dann machten der letzte DDR-Ministerpräsident und ein CDU-Schwergewicht im EU-Parlament Druck, und hatten Erfolg.
(SRI) - Rumors that Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has been admitted to a German hospital sent up the cost of Kazakhstan's credit default swaps on Tuesday amid concerns over succession in the Central Asian country.
(SRI) - Assets controlled by the ex-chairman of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov are concentrated primarily in offshore companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus and Seychelles, the Russian legal news agency RAPSI reported on Tuesday.
(SRI) - Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday refused to comment on reports that President Nursultan Nazarbayev underwent a prostate surgery at a German hospital and said he would be back in Astana on Thursday.
LONDON — Prince Andrew will resign as an ambassador for British businesses abroad, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.
