Interfax: Kazakhstan's Economy Grows 10.2% in H1
Real GDP in Kazakhstan grew an estimated 10.2% year-on-year in the first half of 2007, Berdybek Saparbayev, deputy minister for economics and budget planning, said at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday...
EurasiaNet Civil Society: Opposition Complains About Campaign, as Officials Press OSCE Chair Bid
With a parliamentary election campaign in full swing at home, Kazakhstan is pressing its case abroad for the OSCE chair in 2009. Addressing the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on July 26, Culture and Information Minister Yermukhamet Yertysbayev stressed Kazakhstan’s commitment to freedom of speech. Concern about Kazakhstan’s respect for individual liberties has already prompted the OSCE to delay a final decision on Astana’s bid to chair the organization in 2009...
The Oil and the Glory: Counting the Geopolitical Winnings on the Caspian
John C.K. Daly has an interesting article on the latest geopolitical fallout in pipeline politics on the Caspian... The death of Turkmen leader Saparmurat Niyazov last Dec. 21 set off an unseemly but discreet scramble among a number of nations eager for access to the world's fourth-largest reserves of natural gas...
GlobalVoices: Election (and Cycling) Races
Adam of neweurasia came up with series of posts dedicated to the ongoing election campaign. It is comparatively calm this time, with no flagrant cases of arrests, attacks or murders of opposition members or seizures of independent newspapers as it was during the 2005 presidential campaign...
Interfax: Maersk Oil Kazakhstan to Start Developing Dunga Field in 2008
Maersk Oil Kazakhstan GmbH plans to start commercial development of the Dunga oil field in Kazakhstan's Mangistau region at the start of 2008, company Managing Director Mark Wallace said in Almaty...
Itar-Tass: Azerbaijani, Kazakh Presidents to Discuss Energy Cooperation Tuesday
Azerbaijan’s President Ilkham Aliyev is leaving for Kazakhstan on an official visit Tuesday morning. In the afternoon he will meet with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev...
Reuters: Indicators - Kazakhstan - August 7, 2007
Kazakhstan's economic indicators based on data provided by the State Statistics Agency, government institutions, the central bank and exchanges...
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