Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programs -- not to mention the risk of loose nukes in Russia or Pakistan -- are worrying enough. But a number of other countries are looking to join the nuclear club, with terrifying potential consequences.
The former president of Kazakhstan's Uranium-producing giant KazAtomProm says he needs to be hospitalized, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Kazakhstan has stepped out of the Central Asian United Energy System, excluding its Chimkent and Jambyl regions, press service of the National Electrical Network Company reported.
Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (KPO), a joint venture led by British BG Group and Italian Eni, suspended legal proceedings against the Kazakh government to recover more than $1 billion in export duties it had paid to Kazakhstan, Reuters reported.
Karim Masimov took main post in Kazakhstani government at the period when all country’s management had “hit the roof” from “colored freebie”. In august 2007 year crisis came along into the Republic but the Cabinet preferred to not pay attention to it for a long time. After that $19 billon of dollars were thrown in haste for struggling with the crisis. The effect was the same if they didn’t spend such amount. In other words the effectiveness was close to zero. Kazakhstan needs PM-ant to be able to laboriously and step-by-step work. Mr. Masimov stayed as a butterfly. He flies under the field of problems unable to change or correct something principally.
Turkmenistan has completed construction on its 188-km section of a 7,000-km natural gas pipeline that extends from Turkmenistan to China, according to official media.
