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The second phase of development of the Kashagan oil field has been postponed until 2018-2019, local newswires reported on Thursday, citing the chief executive of Kazakh oil and gas company KazMunaiGas... read more..

Oil consultant Jim Giffen, after more than seven years of fighting charges that he bribed government leaders in Kazakhstan, pleaded guilty to a tax-related misdemeanor. Giffen said today in fed... read more..

Does this picture make you think of Rwanda? If so, a British PR firm has done its job, and many states want a similar makeover Positive pictures of Rwanda, such as the country's famous gorilla tr... read more..

International donors pledged $1.1 billion in aid Tuesday to help Kyrgyzstan rebuild after months of political and ethnic violence. The aid will be allotted over just 30 months — good news that is... read more..

This summer's Kyrgyz-Uzbek clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan presented the gravest threat to Central Asian security since the Tajik civil war of the 1990s. Reportedly, about 3,000 people died and more th... read more..

Police in Kyrgyzstan have detained a brother of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, authorities said Thursday — the latest effort to solidify control over the country's tense south and dismantle the ... read more..

VIENNA/ALMATY (Reuters) - Europe's main security body on Thursday backed plans to send 52 unarmed police officers to help restore peace in southern Kyrgyzstan, a month after the worst bloodshed in the... read more..

ATYRAU, KAZAKHSTAN — A single oil field here in Central Asia stands ready to produce nearly as many barrels each day as the entire Gulf of Mexico does, with less danger to the environment. But 30... read more..

Kazakhstan has achieved a cherished foreign policy goal, securing a commitment to host an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe summit this fall. Kazakhstani Foreign Minister Kanat ... read more..

Central Asia, holder of some of the largest deposits of rare metals such as tungsten and chromium, is increasingly an investment target for China because of low regulatory hurdles and transport cost, ... read more..

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan traveled to western Kazakhstan Tuesday to visit and demonstrate U.S. support for Karachaganak Operating Company, or KPO, which is cur... read more..

Chevron shareholders say - suggestion of illegal overproduction is without merit Kazakhstan has trotted out a time-tested regional approach to obtaining an equity stake in an oilfield controlled ... read more..

Kazakhstan's oil reserves may be too valuable for an export-tax increase to deter companies from drilling for crude in the former Soviet republic. The country, the world's fourth-fastest growing ... read more..

Turkey sees its influence rising in construction projects as well as diplomatic affairs An army of Turkish cranes and bulldozers is at work across the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, buildi... read more..

 Oil consultant Jim Giffen, whose arrest 7 1/2 years ago in an international bribery case threatened U.S. relations with a key Central Asia ally, is set to return to court today for at least the 20th ... read more..

 Kazakh foreign minister Kanat Saudabayev, who is acting chair of the OSCE, said the summit would be a "new and very important milestone in the life of our organisation". Kazakhstan has been lobb... read more..

Der weltweit größte Zigarettenhersteller Philip Morris kauft in Kasachstan Tabak von Zulieferern, die Kinder und Wanderarbeiter ausbeuten. Der SPIEGEL fand bei Recherchen vor Ort verheerende Verhältni... read more..

As legislators from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) member states gathered in Oslo on July 6 for the annual session of the organization's Parliamentary Assembly, led by ... read more..

ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Swimming on the steppe? In Kazakhstan's showpiece capital, it seems nothing is impossible. Khan Shatyr, billed as the world's biggest tent, is the latest addition to Astana's... read more..

Kazakhstan oil ministry accusations that a Chevron-led venture is pumping too much oil are the latest signs the government wants more money from production sharing agreements it considers unfair. ... read more..

When Kazakhstan assumed the 2010 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), officials in Astana touted their country's capabilities as a regional diplomatic troubl... read more..

Together with Freedom House, Global Witness, and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Eurasia Democracy Initiative held a briefing on the margins of the 19th Session OSCE Parliamentary Meeting in Osl... read more..

A Joint Statement by Freedom House, Global Witness, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Eurasian Democracy Initiative for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Oslo As the Parliamentary Ass read more..

Munich (dpa) - A former senior executive at MAN, the German engineering group, admitted in court Wednesday to paying a huge kickback to obtain an order from Kazakhstan to supply turbines. Heinz J... read more..

For much of September, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have engaged in a heated diplomatic exchange over a shooting incident along their shared frontier. The row underscores the fact that border sensitiviti... read more..

  U.S. Helsinki Commission chairman Cardin concerns over lifetime powers for kazakhstani President WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Commission on Security and... read more..

Kyrgyzstan's authorities focus on getting ethnic Uzbeks to polls after bloody rampages One after another, people came out of their houses in this village of ethnic Uzbeks to show how their passpo... read more..

An international police force may be needed to restore stability in southern Kyrgyzstan after the ethnic bloodshed that has killed hundreds and sparked a wave of refugees, an OSCE official said on Wed... read more..

SKazakhstan's National Security Committee (KNB), the country's security service, said on Tuesday it had charged defaulted Astana Finance's former chairman Kintal Islamov and former chief executive Art... read more..

Human Rights Watch says Kyrgyz troops launch new raids of Uzbek areas in southern Kyrgyzstan Troops beat several dozen men and women in an Uzbek neighborhood in southern Kyrgyzstan's main city on... read more..