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Latest Articles about Kazakhstan
ATASU-ALASHANKOU PIPELINE CEMENTS “STRATEGIC ALLIANCE” BETWEEN BEIJING AND ASTANA
At a solemn ceremony on December 15, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev pressed the button to officially begin pumping oil at the Atasu terminal along the new Atasu-Alashankou pipeline. The ceremony took place at the main control center of the Kazakh national oil transport company, KazTransOil.... MORE
RUSSIAN-KAZAKH PARTNERSHIP LEADS CENTRAL ASIAN INTEGRATION
The sudden thaw between Tashkent and Moscow after the Andijan bloodbath and the withdrawal of the U.S. air base from Uzbekistan left Astana guessing about the true intentions of the enigmatic Uzbek President Islam Karimov. But since the Russian-orchestrated integration of the Central Asian Cooperation... MORE
KAZAKHSTAN PLAYS THE NATO CARD
Kazakhstan has again raised the prospect of closer relations with the NATO Alliance, despite its already close relations with Russia and China and the restrictions placed upon its room for maneuver due its membership of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation... MORE
AFTER ELECTION LOSS, WHAT NEXT FOR THE KAZAKH OPPOSITION?
Kazakhstan's December 4 presidential election gave both the opposition and the ruling establishment an opportunity to test the popular theory of democratic "color revolutions." Could a popular uprising after a disputed election evict another ruling regime? The ruling regime has now recognized that it must... MORE
NAZARBAYEV CRUISES TO LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
On Sunday December 4, citizens of Kazakhstan went to the polls to elect their president. While the incumbent, Nursultan Nazarbayev was expected to win, his principal challenger, Zharmakhan Tuyakbay of the opposition bloc "For a Fair Kazakhstan," played to the cameras. Giving a forced smile... MORE
KAZAKH OPPOSITION ACTIVIST MYSTERIOUSLY DIES AHEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The sudden death of Zamanbek Nurkadilov, a prominent opposition activist in Kazakhstan, has triggered a flurry of speculation that is raising the tension level ahead of the December 4 presidential election. Nurkadilov's wife, the popular singer Makpal Zhunusova, found him dead in their home in... MORE
CHINESE NEED RUSSIAN OIL TO FILL PIPELINE FROM KAZAKHSTAN
Mesmerized by the huge hydrocarbon export opportunities offered by China's rapidly developing Xinjiang province, last year Kazakhstan began building the Atasu-Alashankou oil pipeline to connect western China with oilfields in Aktobe region, western Kazakhstan. The daunting adventure, hailed as the project of the century in... MORE
NAZARBAYEV LEADING PRE-ELECTION POLLS IN KAZAKHSTAN
With less than a month remaining before election day, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his advisors are certainly following the November 6 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan. While separated geographically by thousands of miles, the two countries share political systems rooted in nepotism and family clan... MORE
WASHINGTON GIVES NOD OF APPROVAL TO NAZARBAYEV REGIME
Critics of the ruling regime in Kazakhstan were visibly disappointed by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who paid a two-day visit to Astana on October 12-13. She did not offer them any support ahead of the December 4 presidential election. To the surprise of... MORE
KAZAKH GOVERNMENT UNDER FIRE OVER CHINESE TAKEOVER DEAL
As protests mount, members of the Kazakh government are finding it harder and harder to hide their bitter disappointment over the backdoor-deal between the Canadian-listed PetroKazakhstan and the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). For the last few weeks Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov and Minister of... MORE