The European Commission has been critical about some provisions in the Kazakh laws regulating the conduct of rallies and demonstrations.
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by BAGHDAD AMREYEV
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will make an official visit to Turkey on Oct. 21-24. This will bear a historic meaning in terms of content. Nazarbayev made his last official visit to Turkey in 2003; however, there have been significant changes in the content of bilateral relations between Turkey and Kazakhstan in the last six years.
By Peter Grier | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
So far, the former Soviet state has cooperated with the US on nuclear issues. But a new report suggests that Kazakhstan might be looking to do business with other, less responsible regimes, too.
Aim is to secure access to the Central Asian energy resources
PETER LEONARD
French President Nicolas Sarkozy scored a diplomatic coup Tuesday during a visit to energy-rich Kazakhstan, overseeing an agreement to allow military hardware for French forces fighting in Afghanistan to pass through Kazakh territory and clinching a raft of lucrative energy deals.
By Ben Farey and Elizabeth Konstantinova
Turkmenistan is willing to ship natural gas to European partners if they build a pipeline across the Caspian Sea to transport fuel westward.
Adam Smith
The progressive megalomania of Nursultan Nazarbayev, presiden of Kazakhstan, keeps having the people in our country dazed. The international community is amused by his desire to exalt his own "Me" against the backdrop of the socio-economic sphere in the country that outstripped its critical stage as well as the intensifying impoverishment of the nation. An ordinary person feels ashamed of this president by right!
Kazakh President's political advisor Yermukhamet Yertysbayev plans to clarify all the issues about media freedom in Kazakhstan at Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, 28 September 2009 - 9 October 2009
Europe's main security and rights watchdog has criticized its future chairman Kazakhstan for seizing the print run of an opposition newspaper.
Posted by Greg Michaels
Bernie and Sir Allen may need elaborate schemes to swindle people out of billions, but in the emerging markets, fraud tends to be a bit more direct. Take for example Kazakhstan.
Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation
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Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war
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