Author: Askar Ardagerov

International experts have concluded that saiga antelopes are no longer in danger of extinction after visiting the Kaztalovsky and Zhanibek districts of the West Kazakhstan Region, reported Khabar news agency on May 23. Scientists from Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom have discovered that the number of saiga has significantly increased over the past 20 years, which is leading to grievances among farmers with livestock. The region has nearly 1.5 million saigas, the largest population in the country. The birthing season in the region kicked off in early May. The scientists have proposed allowing commercial hunting to prevent the conflict with farmers. The use of saiga…

Kazakh citizens need registration in Uzbekistan if their stay exceeds five days and in Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan if they stay for more than 30 days. Kazakh nationals can stay in Hong Kong, Iran, and Oman for up to 14 days and in Barbados for up to 28 days. Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Serbia, and the United Arab Emirates allow Kazakh citizens to stay for up to 30 days. They can stay for up to 90 days in Albania, Andorra, Colombia, Costa Rica, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, and Ukraine and for up to 180 days in…

Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov tasked the Cabinet to reduce unemployment to 4.8%. He set a certain task to the Government to ensure real growth of household income with an adjustment for inflation, Kazinform reports Unemployment must be reduced to 4.8%. We all need to exert maximum efforts to achieve this indicator, he said. He added that the Government must respond to the people’s claims and requests. These claims and requests concern, mostly, employment, rise in earnings, provision of housing and vital infrastructure, he said. But the most important issue is to regulate prices for socially vital foods. We need to…

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kanat Tumysh received the copies of credentials from newly appointed Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Kazakhstan Faisal Al-Kahtani, Kazinform has learned from the press service of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry.   The Deputy Minister congratulated the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia on his appointment and noted that this would further strengthen the high-level relationship.   Ambassador Al-Kahtani said that he intends to make every effort for the comprehensive development of bilateral cooperation.   During the conversation, the diplomats discussed a number of important issues on the agenda and prospects…

Turan, an ethno-folk ensemble from Kazakhstan, is giving concerts in Switzerland, France, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, and Hungary on its 15th anniversary as part of the European tour this month, according to the ensemble’s announcement on Instagram.  Supported by the Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Sports, the five-member group of Maksat Medeubek, Baurzhan Bekmukhanbetov, Zhantu Dadabayev, Serik Nurmolda, and Yerzhigit Aliyev will conduct a series of concerts from March 31 to April 14. The spring tour began in the Swiss city of Basel on March 31. Organized by the Basel Infinity Festival, a platform for cross-genre music performed by top-class national and…

Astana, Mar 19 (EFE).- Polling stations opened Sunday in Kazakhstan for extraordinary elections to the Lower House (Mazhilis) as part of the institutional renewal promoted by the country’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Within the first five hours of voting, turnout reached 30.65% of the census, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC) of this Central Asian country. More than 12.3 million voters are summoned to the polls to elect the 98 deputies of the Mazhilis, on a day when local elections are also being held. The voting will conclude at 8:00 p.m. local time (2:00 p.m. GMT). For the first time,…

The U.S. Treasury Department will remove sanctions from Bereke Bank, the former subsidiary bank of the Russian “Sber” in Kazakhstan. This is because the mentioned financial organization now belongs to the Kazakhstani company and it is not managed by the Russian “Sber”. The Wall Street Journal wrote about it. The decision to remove the bank from the sanctions list will take effect on March 6. According to the US Department of the Treasury, Sber’s former subsidiary bank in Kazakhstan is now one of the largest financial institutions in Kazakhstan and plays an important role in the country’s financial sector. In…

The Taraz court found nine people accused after the January incident to be guilty. Five of them were shot dead in January last year. One of the other four was sentenced to two years in prison. The rest were released with reduced sentences or conditional sentences. Relatives of the convicted deceased say that they will fight against the verdict and fight for the acquittal of their loved ones. JUDGMENT OF “GHOSTS”. On February 7, Court No. 2 of the city of Taraz sentenced nine people who were charged with the January incident in the process known as the “Court of…

Kazatomprom (KZAP.KZ), the world’s biggest uranium miner, is seeking to boost the capacity of its alternative shipping route which bypasses Russia to mitigate risks from potential sanctions, the Kazakh company said on Wednesday. Landlocked Kazakhstan has traditionally shipped most of its key exports such as oil through Russia. Kazatomprom said it shipped products via the Russian port of St. Petersburg throughout the third quarter with no issues, “However, the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), which the company has successfully used as an alternative route since 2018, helps to mitigate the risk of the primary route being unavailable, for any reason,” it…

Rüya Bayegan using prime minister Barzani’s right hand – Rania Majeed – to elbow her way back to KRG? Ankara, Erbil (4/1 – 45). Rüya Bayegan, the CEO of BGN International and its Turkey-based subsidiary Bayegan Group, was once considered an instrumental member of the petrochemical industry in Turkey. However, as of at least October 2022, Bayegan and her husband, Ercüment Bayegan, have been under investigation by Turkish authorities on allegations of fraud, document forgeries and tax evasion as a result of their role in the disastrous Yurtgas scandal. The recent contract between BGN International with the Indonesian state owned oil and gas company Pertamina raises…