Kazakhstan has renamed the capital Astana as Nursultan. The city was given a new name as a tribute to former President Nursultan Nazerbayev, who suddenly resigned after 30 years in power. To be…
The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazerbayev, has announced his immediate retirement on television. The 78-year-old Nazerbayev was in power in the former republic for almost thirty years...
According to evil tongues also built to keep the imperial ambitions of Russia in check. Because almost a quarter of the population in the country consists of ethnic Russians. 'Who says Putin this...
A plane from the Kazakh airline Air Astana was in great distress during a test flight over Portugal on Sunday and could barely land. After the pilots had first considered making an emergency landing in the sea, it was finally possible to reach the airport of Beja with great difficulty, 150 kilometers southeast of Lisbon, reported Portuguese media.
Two months after his family thought he had buried him, Ajgali Soepjgaljev turned up with his family in Tomarli in Kazakhstan. Soepjgaljev was declared dead on the basis of DNA analysis of a severely burned body.
The special Syria envoy of the United Nations, Staffan de Mistura, wants to resume peace talks in Geneva in January. The last round of peace talks failed, De Mistura acknowledged. He said this Thursday visiting Moscow after talks with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov.
The launch of a spacecraft from the Russian launch base Bajkonur in Kazakhstan to ISS space station reveals two people in June to cost a living. A technician died of his injury due to a steep fire caused by a crash missile component. A driver of a car came to death, who was looking for the wreckage with others, reported the Kazakh Ministry of Defense and Space Industry Saturday in Astana.
Russia, Turkey and Iran will not discuss the escalation of the civil war in Syria this coming week. The consultation was scheduled for 12 and 13 June in Kazakhstan. The Foreign Ministry of that country said Thursday that the three had terminated.
The peace talks in Geneva between the Syrian government and the opposition will continue on 16 May. That said UN mediator Staffan de Mistura Monday.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said to the media on Friday that at midnight the safe areas in Syria were a fact. The largest area is the Idlib province, with the neighboring Latakia, Aleppo and Hama districts. There are more than a million people living in total. According to state secretary Alexander Fomin, the air force has not been flying since 1 May.
The United States sends a delegate to Astana to attend the peace talks on Syria. That has announced the White House, after President Donald Trump had talked with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin. During the G20 in Hamburg (5 and 6 July), both leaders meet for the first time personally.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaking during his visit to Russia later this week, not with Russian President Vladimir Poetin. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov Tillerson speaks with his counterpart Sergej Lavrov.
There will be a continuation of the peace talks on Syria in Kazakhstan. That Iranian President Hassan Rohani said on Tuesday at the end of his two-day visit to Moscow. A date for the next round he called not.
Consultations about the war in Syria, which is held in the Kazakh capital Astana, goes further in early May. This informed the promoters, Russia, Turkey and Iran, Wednesday. A Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan announced that the next round of talks will be on 3 and 4 May.
International negotiations on the crisis in Syria would begin Wednesday in Astana, was suspended one day. In the capital of Kazakhstan, representatives of countries including Russia, Turkey and Iran meet.
The Syrian government arms are open to exchange prisoners with the rebels. This could ensure that both parties are preparing to attend peace talks.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry is in talks Friday with members of the Syrian opposition. The consultations took place in Ankara, sources left out by the Ministry. Later this month a planned peace talks backed by the United Nations.
The next round in the led peace talks being held in Geneva by the United Nations, was postponed. This said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Friday. He talked with rebels and other opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian rebels have shown Tuesday that they do not intend to be signs during the peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana. The consultations started Monday at the initiative of Russia, Turkey and Iran.
Kazakh Foreign Minister Kajrat Abdrachmanov Monday in the capital Astana on Monday opened peace talks on Syria.
Russia would still like the United States are represented on Syria meeting in Kazakhstan. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed on Russian television that it is impossible without American involvement to achieve a 'constructive solution' to the ongoing conflict.
Iran opposes the arrival of a US delegation to the Syria-concert in the Kazakh capital Astana. That said, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Wednesday. The discussions Monday, January 23 instead.
The aim of the consultations on Syria in the Kazakh capital Astana to reach a ceasefire and to strengthen it.
The European Union will in April host a major international conference on the future of Syria, together with the United Nations. That said EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini Monday after consultation of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
Turkey continues to believe that a united and peaceful Syria is impossible with Bashar al-Assad as president, but will wait and see what emerges from the planned peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana. That said, the spokesman of President Erdogan Friday.
In Kazakhstan, at least nine people have been slain after a building partially collapsed. Two people were taken to hospital, reported the Russian news agency Tass Monday.
UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura has responded positively to the cease-fire that various warring parties Thursday agreed in Syria. He said he hoped that through being prevented civilian lives and to deliver relief supplies is possible thanks to the agreement.
The Syrian government and members of the Syrian opposition have been talking to each other. That said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday.
The Kazakh parliament wants to rename the capital Astana for President Nursultan Nazarbayev. According to a clause in the proposal Wednesday unanimously adopted by the two chambers of parliament, the British newspaper The Guardian reported Thursday.
Terrorists have policemen slain Monday in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan. Russian media reported that at least three officers were shot dead and seven have been hit very severely wounded.
