| 03/27/2018 09:40 | US court rules in favor of $520 million arbitration against Kazakhstan (Reuters)
UPDATE 1-US court ruling could pave way for freeze of Kazakh assets - Reuters |
| 03/27/2018 07:50 | UPDATE 1-US court ruling could pave way for freeze of Kazakh assets ( Reuters UK )
Kazakhstan denies the allegations, says the arbitration was won through fraud, and has countersued in several countries. Kazakhstan's central bank, which manages a sovereign fund invested in U.S. securities, did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the court ruling on Monday. (Reporting ... |
| 03/27/2018 07:50 | US court ruling could pave way for freeze of Kazakh assets ( Reuters )
ALMATY (Reuters) - A court in the United States has ruled in favor of a Moldovan businessman seeking to enforce a $520 million arbitration award against Kazakhstan, a move that may pave way for the freezing of Kazakh assets in the United States. The businessman, Anatolie Stati, has already had a ... |
| 03/26/2018 21:35 | Internet censorship in Kazakhstan: more pervasive than you may think ( Open Democracy )
As a result, on 15 March, an alleged DVK supporter in Almaty was placed under house arrest. The following day, police interrogated Askar Shaigumarov, a video blogger from the city of Uralsk, regarding his âpositive endorsementâ of DVK. Over the years, people in Kazakhstan have grown used to taking ... |
| 03/22/2018 01:40 | Kazakhstan: Child Rape Media Frenzy Puts Officialdom on Trial ( EurasiaNet )
Nursultan's mother had until that point largely been written out of the unfolding drama. Informburo.kz reported that she had moved to Kazakhstan from Uzbekistan in 2003. She gave birth to Nursultan in 2010, but never married. In order to provide for her son, she reportedly moved to Almaty and regularly ... |
| 03/21/2018 05:45 | Kazakhstan building up rapeseed crushing capacities ( UkrAgroConsult )
... CEO Yerzhan Nurbayev, the plant will be 50% loaded with feedstock of own production and the other 50% will be purchased from farmers. Rape oil sales will be aimed at foreign buyers, primarily China. As a reminder, one rapeseed crushing plant currently operates in Kazakhstan (Almaty region). |
| 03/20/2018 05:40 | Kazakh woman found not guilty after being charged over downloading Bible on her phone ( ChristianToday )
Dilobarkhon Sultanova was found not guilty by the South Kazakhstan Regional Court, in the city of Shymkent on March 13. Orthodox priest in Kazakhstan ReutersAn Orthodox priest conducts a service at Epiphany celebrations on the Bolshaya Almatinka river bank in Almaty. Sultanova had been charged ... |
| 03/18/2018 13:40 | Speaking up about rape in conservative Kazakhstan ( BBC News )
In the conservative Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, many women are afraid to speak up about rape and sexual harassment. But a local campaign - one which predates the MeToo and Time's Up movements - has been urging women not to stay silent. Saina Raisova almost breaks down when she ... |
| 03/17/2018 03:55 | Alisa Arshavina, 35, sued by Aeroflot for ÂŁ12500 over January incident ( Daily Mail )
Alisa Arshavina was asked to leave an Aeroflot jet at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport in January after delaying the flight to Almaty, ... Mrs Arshavina reportedly contacted Olga Semenova after she was filmed with Arshavin, in a restaurant in Almaty, Kazakhstan where he now plays for a local ... |
| 03/16/2018 21:30 | Kazakhstan: house arrest for pregnant woman accused of funding Nazarbayev foe ( Times of Central Asia )
ALMATY (TCA) â A court in Kazakhstan has imposed house arrest on a woman who is suspected of giving financial backing to an opposition political movement established by Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive critic of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. The court ... |
| 03/16/2018 17:55 | Vegetable oil production launches in East Kazakhstan region ( Astana Times )
He added rapeseed and sunflower oil are in great demand in the Chinese market. If sunflower oil can be sold in Kazakhstan, rapeseed will be processed and exported to China. The East Kazakhstan region is the second after the Almaty region where rapeseeds will be processed. Many Kazakh farmers ... |
| 03/16/2018 11:30 | Rare Central Asian Summit Signals Regional Thaw ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
ASTANA -- Four Central Asian presidents are meeting in Kazakhstan for the first regional summit in almost a decade, a sign of improving ties following the death of divisive Uzbek ... The most recent summit, in April 2009 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, focused solely on the problems of the shrinking Aral Sea. |
| 03/16/2018 11:30 | House Arrest Ordered For Pregnant Woman Accused Of Funding Nazarbaev Foe ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- A court in Kazakhstan has imposed house arrest on a woman who is suspected of giving financial backing to an opposition political movement established by Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive critic of President Nursultan Nazarbaev. The court ordered house arrest for Aqmaral ... |
| 03/14/2018 15:30 | Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan Movement Outlawed for Extremism ( Latin American Herald Tribune )
ASTANA â The Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan movement (DCK), founded by fugitive banker and opposition figure Mukhtar Ablyazov, was declared extremist ... An appeals court in Almaty last August upheld a prison sentence of 20 years for Ablyazov for criminal conspiracy, embezzlement and money ... |
| 03/13/2018 05:30 | Sendai Monitor launch in Central Asia/ South Caucasus ( Reliefweb )
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 7 March 2018 - Six countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus are the latest to commit to using the Sendai Framework Monitor, the online tool launched on March 1, to improve disaster loss data collection in order to better inform national and local strategies for disaster risk ... |
| 03/12/2018 19:35 | News in Pics: Your daily dose of pictures from around the world ( Moneycontrol.com )
An athlete soars during Gorilla Winter Jungle snowboarding and freestyle skiing festival at Shymbulak ski resort outside Almaty, Kazakhstan. (REUTERS). A riot police officer is engulfed in flames during a demonstration called by self-proclaimed. 4/9. A riot police officer is engulfed in flames during a ... |
| 03/09/2018 17:25 | Kazakh businessman Tokmadi accused of murder reportedly run away ( AKIpress (press release) )
Tokmadi, an adviser of the CEO of KazStroiSteklo LLC, was detained by Kazakh security services during the special operation on June 12, 2017 in Almaty. He was detained on suspicion of large scale property extortion. He was suspected of expropriating the shares in two enterprises through threats of ... |
| 03/09/2018 01:30 | Kazakhs Seek Funds from a Kleptocrat, Trump Friend ( The Asia Sentinel )
The suit was filed last August in the US Central District Court against Viktor Khrapunov, the former mayor of Kazakhstan's capital city, Almaty, and 15 other defendants for allegedly engaging in a spectacular series of fraudulent sales of government properties to enrich themselves, then transmitting the ... |
| 03/06/2018 07:40 | KAZAKHSTAN: 24 criminal convictions in 2017, more imminent? ( Forum 18 )
A court in Kazakhstan's southern Almaty Region has jailed for one year yet another Muslim accused of membership of the banned Islamic missionary movement Tabligh Jamaat. The case had been launched by the National Security Committee (KNB) secret police. He was the 24th individual known to ... |
| 03/04/2018 10:25 | In the showroom of Kazakhstan, the man accidentally broke the new Rolls-Royce ( www.MICEtimes.asia (press release) )
A curious incident occurred in Kazakhstan Alma-ATA. The visitor of the showroom Cars Almaty managed to damage myself following, and expensive car. According to local media reports, the man was examined at the premises of Rolls-Royce Ghost. When he sat in the driver's seat, accidentally pressed ... |
