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Report: Key oil refinery in southern Kazakhstan damaged in blaze
CanadianBusiness.com
By AP | February 06, 2012 ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Media in Kazakhstan are reporting that a major oil-refining plant in the southern city of Shymkent has been damaged in a fire. They say the scale of the damage is not yet clear, but the blaze may further ...
Fire in oil refinery in Kazakh Shymkent extinguishedTrend.az

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Democracy Has a Tentative Start in Kazakhstan
White House Chronicle
(In Kazakhstan, nomads still use felt to build their tents, called yurts, and to wear a fur coat in Astana, the modern capital, is not a luxury because temperatures can plummet to -40 C in winter.) But political change – slow, to be sure – is taking ...

Defaulted Kazakh BTA creates debt restructre panel
Reuters
(Adds background) LONDON Feb 6 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's BTA Bank , majority owned by the country's sovereign wealth fund, announced on Monday a committee to discuss debt restructuring after the bank defaulted on its debt last month.

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Human Rights Watch
Kazakhstan/Germany: Make Rights Key to Good Relations
Human Rights Watch
Angela Merkel should make clear to Nursultan Nazarbaev that Germany wants to see Kazakhstan show a genuine commitment to upholding human rights at home. (Berlin) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel should raise urgent human rights concerns with the ...

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Kazakhstan, Germany to sign documents worth 2b euros
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Kazakhstan and Germany will sign roughly 40 commercial documents worth 2 billion euros within the official visit of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to Germany on Feb. 7-8, Kazakh Foreign Ministry Spokesman Altai Abibullaev said on Monday, ...
Nazarbayev Left For Working Visit To GermanyJournal of Turkish Weekly

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Kazakh Development Bank Says It May Issue Islamic, Samurai Bonds
Bloomberg
The Development Bank of Kazakhstan, a state-owned lender that promotes industry, is preparing to issue Islamic and Samurai bonds in 2012 to “diversify its loan portfolio and implement new financial instruments.” The bank expects to offer $862 million ...

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Kazakhstan's gas production ups in 2011
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Kazakhstan's total production of gas amounted to 39.532 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2011, as compared to 37.414 bcm in 2010, the Kazakh Statistics Agency dispatching management told Trend. Gas production in Kazakhstan totaled 3.447 bcm in December, ...

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On February 3, 2012, the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Fighting Economic and Corruption Crimes (Financial Police) has initiated criminal cases against former Chairman of the Customs Control Committee of the Kazakh Ministry of Finance Serik Baimaganbetov on the facts of abuse of office and bribery on an especially large scale.

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Report: Key oil refinery in southern Kazakhstan damaged in blaze
Washington Post (blog)
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Media in Kazakhstan are reporting that a major oil-refining plant in the southern city of Shymkent has been damaged in a fire. They say the scale of the damage is not yet clear, but the blaze may further deepen occasional fuel ...
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Teachers' professional development system modernized in Kazakhstan
Gazeta.KZ
President of Kazakhstan emphasized in his annual Address to the Nation a necessity to improve the quality of qualification of teachers. Besides, the Head of State also told about the importance to establish integrated centers for teachers' professional ...

President of Kazakhstan emphasized in his annual Address to the Nation a necessity to improve the quality of qualification of teachers. Besides, the Head of State also told about the importance to establish integrated centers for teachers’ professional development in every region. Established in November of 2011 Teachers’ Excellence Center under the Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools will become an important link in the transformation of the system.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev has left for a working visit to the Federal Republic of Germany. Within the official visit it is planned to sign a solid package of economic documents, which will promote further strengthening of relations between Germany and Kazakhstan. In the German side's opinion, the visit is important and will give a powerful impetus to comprehensive mutually beneficial partnership.

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Kazakhstan decreases gas supplies to Kyrgyzstan
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Kazakhstan has decreased its gas supplies to the North of Kyrgyzstan to 40000 cubic meters per hour, 24.kg quotes Kyrgyzgas's deputy director Eugene Orlenko on Monday as saying. He said Kazakhstan's company KazTransGaz sent a phone telegram to ...

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Anuar Zhumadildayev has been appointed Chairman of the Tax Committee of the Finance Ministry of Kazakhstan.

Aral Sea challenge to Kazakhstan
Asia Times Online
Some experts believe that if the project is implemented successfully, the Aral sector of Uzbekistan may become more attractive for investors than the Caspian oil and gas fields of Kazakhstan. But so far its achievements look very modest.

Azerbaijan Business Center
Azerbaijan has turned into South Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan Business Center
The country, in any case, Baku, reminds much now southern Kazakhstan in winter, when there is little snow and in the day time temperature can reach plus values, and frost and ice come back at night. If the last-week-made forecast saying that snow and ...

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INDICATORS - Kazakhstan - Feb 6
Reuters
ALMATY, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's economic indicators based on data provided by the State Statistics Agency, government institutions, the central bank and exchanges: * updated today CURRENCY/INTEREST RATE LATEST PREVIOUS *Tenge/dollar 148.66 ...

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TABLE-Long-term credit ratings for Kazakhstan banks
Reuters
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Following are long-term credit ratings for Kazakhstan's major banks as defined by international ratings agencies Standard & Poor's (S&P), Moody's and Fitch. Outlook in parentheses: positive (pos), stable (stab), neative (neg), ...

INDICATORS - Kazakhstan - Feb 6
Reuters UK
ALMATY, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's economic indicators based on data provided by the State Statistics Agency, government institutions, the central bank and exchanges: * updated today CURRENCY/INTEREST RATE LATEST PREVIOUS *Tenge/dollar 148.66 ...

West Kazakhstan to develop action plan to implement presidential address
Caspionet
An action plan for fulfilling the President's Address will soon be devised in West Kazakhstan. The region's new governor, Nurlan Nogayev, gave some specific instructions at a regional meeting. Today, 82% of the province's population uses natural gas.