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Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev got what he wanted out of Uzbekistan. During talks in Tashkent on March 17, Nazarbayev secured Uzbek support for his cherished aim of hosting a summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) later this year.

ALMATY, March 19 (Reuters) - Oil workers at Kazakh producer KazMunaiGas Exploration and Production (KMG EP) (KMGq.L) have ended a three-week strike at the OzenMunaiGas (OMG) oil-production unit, the company said on Friday.

March 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Development Bank of Kazakhstan will wait to finance a local $6 billion natural-gas chemical plant as the project's strategic partner, LyondellBasell Industries AF SCA, seeks to reorganize.

Hartnäckig hält sich die Behauptung, dass Österreich den ehemaligen kasachischen Botschafter selbst strafrechtlich verfolgen oder an seine Heimat übergeben müsse. Doch diese Aussage ist nicht haltbar.

The former boss of Kazakhstan's nuclear industry has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on corruption charges amid claims that the trial was politically motivated. Mukhtar Dzhakishev, the 46-year-old former head of the Kazatomprom state nuclear giant, was sentenced on March 12 following a two-month closed trial in Astana.

(SRI) - In a government reorganization last Friday, Kazakhstan's president Nursultan Nazarbayev created a new oil and gas ministry and reshuffled the cabinet.

ALMATY (Reuters) -- Kazakh police have detained several regional officials in connection with a probe into floods last week that killed 34 people near the financial capital Almaty, the Interior Ministry said today.

Wealthiest of the former Soviet republics promotes a glitzy image to foreign investors but struggles to maintain its ageing infrastructure and has been hit by a series of disasters in recent years as a result

The lawyer for a former head of Kazkahstan's state nuclear energy company says his client has been sentenced to 14 years in jail on charges of embezzlement and corruption.