Kyrgyzstan, which was scheduled to join the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) on May 1, has delayed full accession until the end of the month. This delay is another in an impressive history of delays that Eurasianet's Chris Rickleton aptly called a "curious subplot to the generally unsuccessful story of Eurasian integration thus far."
Two Kazakhs who were co-accused along with Rakhat Aliyev over the murder of two bankers in 2007 have been released from pre-trial detention after an Austrian judge found inconsistencies and contradictions in the evidence brought against them, their lawyer has confirmed.
Die beiden Angeklagten im Mordverfahren um den Tod zweier kasachischer Bankmanager wurden vom vorsitzenden Richter überraschend enthaftet. Wien – Einen Knalleffekt brachte am Mittwoch der Alijew-Prozess: Andreas Böhm, Vorsitzender des Geschworenengerichts im Mordverfahren gegen Alnur Mussajew und Vadim K. hat die Untersuchungshaft über die beiden Angeklagten aufgehoben.
New York Times reporter Jo Becker said that after Bill Clinton gave Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev a "propaganda coup," businessman Frank Giustra got a large uranium concession in the country, and then gave large sums to the Clinton Foundation in an interview broadcast on Friday's Fox News Channel special "The Tangled Clinton Web."
A Uranium One sign that points to a 35,000-acre ranch owned by John Christensen, near the town of Gillette, Wyo. Uranium One has the mining rights to Mr. Christensen's property. Credit Matthew Staver for The New York Times
As oil-rich Kazakhstan votes for a president Sunday, the governing elite is pounding home a mantra of stability as fears percolate about the country's massive Russian minority taking inspiration from the Moscow-backed insurgency in Ukraine.
Since 2013, the nuclear energy arm of the Russian state has controlled 20 percent of America's uranium production capacity. Rosatom's acquisition of Toronto-based miner Uranium One Inc. made the Russian agency, which also builds nuclear weapons, one the world's top five producers of the radioactive metal and gave it ownership of a mine in Wyoming.
