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Kazakhstan.Results of Industrialization Programme.

Kazakhstan. President Nursultan Nazarbayev took part in a national teleconference with the presentation of the Industrialization Map projects launched during the second half of 2011 in Astana on December 9 at the Saryarka Republican Track Cycling Centre. Nursultan Nazarbayev launched industrial facilities in the regions via video-conference, including the processing section of the Sokolov-Sarbaiskoye ore-dressing production association in the Kostanay region, the production of […]

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Almaty Launches Kazakhstan’s First Subway Line

  Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev officially commissioned the first stage of the underground metro system in Almaty, the country’s largest city of 1.5 million people, on December 1.   “Today is an exciting historical day for our country, when Kazakhstan’s first metro facility has been put into operation.,” Nazarbayev said […]

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Kazakhstan Lawmakers approve ‘Repressive’ Religion Law

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged to adopt Religion Law BUDAPEST/ASTANA (BosNewsLife)– Lawmakers in Kazakhstan have voted for controversial legislation that Christians and rights activists say will further limit religious freedom in the mainly Muslim Central Asian state. Under the new Religion Law, […]

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Kazakh president in German hospital

Source: Daily Times Pakistan BERLIN: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is in hospital in Germany, but it is unclear what he is being treated for, the Bild daily reported on Tuesday. The 71-year-old “secretly” checked himself into the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in northern Germany, and is being guarded by a […]

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Members want OIC to be more active

By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS ASTANA, Kazakhstan: The three-day annual Council of Foreign Ministers meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation ended with a sense of optimism and new direction among the delegations. The deliberations in the Kazakh capital were frank and honest and sometimes critical. Minister after minister […]

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OIC chief calls for ‘decade of action’

By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS ASTANA, Kazakhstan: The secretary-general of the renamed Organization of Islamic Cooperation has called for a decade of action on political reforms and peaceful resolutions for Palestine, Libya and Syria. “The Muslim world is confronted with some serious developments with direct impact on its stability, […]

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Ahmadi Muslim mosque closed

KAZAKHSTAN: Ahmadi Muslim mosque closed, Protestants fined 100 times minimum monthly wage Source / Courtesy: Forum 18, Norway Kazakhstan has fined an Ahmadi Muslim community – also denying it the use of its mosque and land – as well as imposed fines of 100 times the minimum monthly wage on two Protestants for […]

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SCO presidency passed to Kazakhstan

Astana. June 11. Kazakhstan Today – The head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, took part in the sessions of the Council of heads of SCO member states in the narrow and extended structures and made a speech today in Tashkent, the agency reports citing the president’s press service. According to the […]