Nursultan Nazarbayev

Hillary Clinton in line for top job in Barack Obama cabinet

Hillary Clinton has held secret talks with former presidential rival Barack Obama about becoming his Secretary of State. By Toby Harnden in Washington Mrs Clinton flew to Chicago for a meeting to discuss the prospect of serving...

Leaders of the troubled world Obama will inherit from Bush

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Hungry to be a world power Brazil has by far the largest economy in Latin America and is now a growing power on the world economic stage. It forswore nuclear weapons, campaigned for a...

Kazakhstan In Pipeline Discussions

14 November 2008By Ethan Wilensky-Lanford / Staff WriterKazakh state-run energy producer KazMunaiGaz said Thursday that a delegation from the country was in Moscow for talks with Transneft on expanding its stake in the Caspian...

Black Obama for cosmopolitan America

MOSCOW. Other examples are Catherine II, a German-born empress of Russia, British Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, a Jew, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, born into a family of Japanese immigrants, and French...

Breakingviews.com: Kazakh rulers hold bailout strings

The $3.5 billion bank bailout by the Kazakh wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna looks fairly standard. However, Samruk-Kazyna is controlled by Karim Masimov, the prime minister of Kazakhstan, with Timur Kulibayev, President Nursultan...

Kazakhstan battles crisis with bailout, reforms

By Maria Golovnina ALMATY, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The government also announced political reforms intended to counter opposition criticism before it takes over the one-year chairmanship of the Organization for Security and...

Kazakh envoy: Iran-Kazakhstan trade can rise to $10b

Increasing Iran-Kazakhstan trade exchange from dlrs 2 billion to dlrs 10 billion is not out of sight, Kazakh Ambassador to Tehran Yerik Utembayev said on Tuesday. He made the remark during a conference on Iran-Kazakhstan trade...

Kazakhs seek to improve election law

Kazakhstan's government backed changes to electoral laws Tuesday to ensure that more than one party is represented in parliament, a move aimed at bolstering its democratic credentials. The oil-rich central Asian nation is under...

Kazakhstan: Astana Pursues Nuclear Energy Deal with India

Uranium from Kazakhstan will soon be powering Indian nuclear plants, the Kazakh ambassador to India revealed in a newspaper interview. In comments published November 8 by the Times of India, Kazakhstani envoy Kairat Umarov said...

Nazarbayev Urges Kazakhs to Buy Land Amid Bank Bailouts

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev called on the public to buy property after his government announced a bailout of lenders aimed at easing credit and propping up the country’s construction industry.

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