Kazakhstan

  • Apr 28, 2009
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CENTRAL ASIA: Water summit fails to reach compromise

Heads of state from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan met in Almaty...

Central Asia
  • Apr 15, 2009
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KAZAKHSTAN/CHINA: Nazarbayev seeks loans for energy

President Nursultan Nazarbayev today begins a five-day visit to China, where he is expected to...

Kazakhstan
  • Apr 14, 2009
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KAZAKHSTAN: Alliance defaults on opaque liabilities

Alliance Bank, Kazakhstan's fourth-largest lender, announced yesterday that it could not make...

Kazakhstan
  • Apr 6, 2009
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KAZAKHSTAN/US: Astana proposes nuclear fuel bank

According to yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Astana has offered to host an international...

Kazakhstan
  • Apr 3, 2009
  • 7 min read

KAZAKHSTAN: Politics and finance prompted BTA takeover

Although economic imperatives were clearly a factor in the de facto nationalisation of BTA, the...

Kazakhstan
  • Mar 25, 2009
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KAZAKHSTAN: Astana targets former BTA executives

The Prosecutor General's Office yesterday announced that it would seek to prosecute former BTA...

Kazakhstan
  • Mar 24, 2009
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KAZAKHSTAN: Government revises growth forecast to 1%

Economy Minister Bakhyt Sultanov announced today that the Kazakh economy is expected to grow by...

Kazakhstan
  • Mar 17, 2009
  • 2 min read

CIS: Industrial production falls across the region

Industrial production declined in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine last month in year-on-year...