Section: Kazakhstan
German President makes first visit to Astana, meets with Kazakh President
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed bilateral political, economic, cultural and humanitarian cooperation July 12 in the Akorda presidential residence. It was Steinmeier’s first...
Why you cannot compare GGG to Mike Tyson?
ASTANA. KAZINFORM Sergey Korchinsky, Ukrainian specialist, an ex-coach of Astana Arlans, told Sports.kz about the comparison between Kazakh Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin and American Mike Tyson. …read more Source:...
New variant of banking trojan emerges in Kazakhstan
ASTANA. KAZINFORM A new variant of the Zeus banking trojan, Neutrino has emerged in Kazakhstan, Russia, Algeria, Ukraine, and Egypt. Neutrino is custom-made to collect credit card information from point-of-sale systems, Kaspersky Lab experts said. …read more Source:...
Putin, Macron, Merkel hold working breakfast, discuss Ukraine on G20’s sidelines
HAMBURG. KAZINFORM – A working breakfast with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has started in Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg on the sidelines of the G20 summit. …read more Source:...
Trump-Putin talks mark first step in defusing tensions over Syria, Ukraine
BERLIN. KAZINFORM – Agreements reached by US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in their highly-anticipated meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg could represent serious steps towards defusing tensions over Syria and Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Minister proposes extending Astana’s open skies regime
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Kazakh Minister for Investments and Development Zhenis Kassymbek has proposed extending the open skies regime to next year to attract more foreign tourists to the capital. “The open skies regime has been launched in Astana for the period of EXPO 2017;...
Identity of Kazakhstan’s 18 millionth citizen revealed
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Baby girl Muslima Samatkyzy born May 11 to a family from Taldykorgan, in the Almaty region was recently identified as Kazakhstan’s 18 millionth citizen. “All the way, while we were going home, our heart was beating with excitement, we knew that in...
Nursultan Nazarbayev calls on Russia and Ukraine to come to negotiating table
ASTANA. KAZINFORM Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev called on Russia and Ukraine to come to negotiating table, Kazinform correspondent reports. …read more Source:...
Russian, Ukrainian companies’ websites under massive cyber attack More: http://tass.com/world/953528
MOSCOW. KAZINFORM Rosneft, Bashneft, Mars, Nivea and Mondelez International (producer of Alpen Gold chocolate) are among the companies that were attacked by the Petya virus in Russia, Group-IB, the company which deals with prevention and investigation of cybercrime, reported, according to TASS. …read more Source:...
More than 300,000 people have attended EXPO 2017 in two weeks, numbers keep growing
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – More than 300,000 people have visited EXPO 2017 since its opening, said Astana EXPO 2017 National Company Chairperson Akhmetzhan Yessimov at a June 23 media forum. “The exhibition is of great interest. The number of entrances to the expo facilities...
