Graham Bowley and Catherine Rampell
For the moment, at least, global investors seem to be taking Dubai's sinking fortunes in their stride
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Kazakhstan still did not launch grain terminal at the border with the People's Republic of China, and Kazakhstan faces some problems with grain shipment to China.
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Kostis Geropoulos
Kazakhstan wants to leave politics out of the equation and make a profit when dealing with the transport of hydrocarbons, the country's foreign minister told five visiting western journalists at his lavish ministry in Astana.
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By Sergey ABAKSHIN
Rural areas have the desire to work except but no possibilities to it.
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When the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe finally decided to designate Kazakhstan as the chair of the group in 2010, the general hope in Vienna was that the responsibility would encourage Astana to liberalize its political system. But with just weeks to go before Kazakhstan's assumes the helm at the OSCE, those early hopes are proving illusory, leading Kazakhstani civil society activists say.
BY KATYA KUMKOVA
When the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe finally decided to designate Kazakhstan as the chair of the group in 2010, the general hope in Vienna was that the responsibility would encourage Astana to liberalize its political system. But with just weeks to go before Kazakhstan's assumes the helm at the OSCE, those early hopes are proving illusory, leading Kazakhstani civil society activists say.
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A series of novels written by an ethnic Kazakh man imprisoned in China that was secretly brought to Kazakhstan was presented in Almaty on November 24, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
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By Clare Nuttall (business new europe)
Kazakhstan's banking sector has been shored up by government cash, but this isn't sustainable in the long run. Until new sources of funding can be tapped, the sector is in for a period of stagnation, a new report from Renaissance Capital says.
