In der Causa Rakhat Aliyev fand das Institut für Rechtsmedizin in St. Gallen keine Indizien auf äußere Gewalteinwirkung oder Intoxikation. Der ehemalige Botschafter dürfte Selbstmord begangen haben.
Germany's former political leaders grace the cover of this week's edition of the German news magazine Der Spiegel. But this isn't a tribute. Rather they are portrayed in fictional police mug shots, accused of being bought off to whitewash the reputation of an oppressive Central Asian government.
In early June 2015, Kazakhstan news agency Today.kz announced that information technology giants, General Electric, Samsung, and Microsoft would be among six high-tech companies joining Kazakhstan's much anticipated Science Park Astana Business Campus at Nazarbayev University.
En 2010, la France vendait pour 2 milliards d'euros de matériel militaire au Kazakhstan. Des proches de Nicolas Sarkozy sont soupçonnés d'avoir, en échange, fait pression sur la Belgique.
An aerial survey conducted as part of a national monitoring program earlier this year estimated that the saiga antelope population numbered approximately 250,000 animals prior to this mass die-off, which has therefore halved the total population in about one month.
Two men who had been colleagues at the former FTSE 100 mining group Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation have been found dead at a hotel in the US. The bodies of James Bethel, 44, the former head of the group's copper and cobalt division in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gerrit Strydom, 45, who was the general manager of ENRC subsidiary Congo Cobalt Corporation, were discovered last weekend in separate rooms at the hotel in Springfield, Missouri.
The council ruled that a Russian-style bill banning "gay propaganda" could violate Kazakhstan's constitution as the country bids to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Kazakhstan's Constitutional Council has thrown out a Russian-style bill that would ban "propagandizing non-traditional sexual orientation" to minors. The bill passed Kazakhstan's Senate in February but had not yet been signed into law by President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Once he promised to transform Britain. Instead Tony Blair became a despised figure around the world. And now what is probably the final act in Tony Blair's political career has ended in abject failure as he leaves his job as Middle East peace envoy. Given his dismal record, there is little surprise the former Labour prime minister is departing from the role he took upon leaving Downing Street eight years ago.
Investigative reporter Peter Schweizer, author of the current bestselling book "Clinton Cash," believes Wall Street analyst and investor Charles Ortel's finding that Bill and Hillary Clinton managed the Clinton Foundation to enrich themselves and their closes associates adds an important dimension to his own investigations into allegations of bribery.
In a new report, the International Crisis Group says that Kazakhstan is facing a stress test–its only president since independence turns 75 this summer and Russia's "actions in Ukraine cast a shadow over Kazakhstan." To date, the report notes, Kazakhstan's devotion to continuity has trumped needed democratic reforms. Nursultan Nazarbayev's recent landslide reelection demonstrates his absolute centrality to political stability in the country and could prove to be "a serious vulnerability."
