The West and Russia have been increasingly focused on Central Asia. The US has been making consistent efforts to secure its stay in Kyrgyzstan and improve cooperation with Tajikistan against the backdrop of the pulling out … See on http://www.phantomreport.com

Maksut Zhumayev proposes to develop ice climbing in Kazakhstan Tengrinews After visiting the ice climbing festival in the Olympic Park in Sochi Zhumayev has become even more convinced that now is the time to start developing this branch of climbing……

Kazakhstan’s Air Astana to perform chartered flights to Turkey Tengrinews Back in summer 2013 about a hundred of Kazakhstan’s tourists couldn’t return from Turkey due to the bankruptcy of the Turkish Sky Airlines; Kazakhstan’s Emergency Ministry… See on en.tengrinews.kz

Kazakhstan sets new limits on borrowingBusiness New EuropeKazakhstan’s central bank has ordered commercial banks not to allow customers take out loans that will require them to spend more than half their monthly income on repayments. See on http://www.bne.eu

Kazakhstan postpones introduction of greenhouse gas emission fines Tengrinews GHG emission fines mounted so high in 2013 that Kazakhstan decided to postpone introduction of the fines and cut the fine in two, Tengrinews reports from the plenary… See on en.tengrinews.kz

07/03/2014 – Large German companies interested in investing in Kazakhstan Times of Central Asia (subscription) According to the ministry’s press service, Kazakh Minister of Industry and New Technologies Aset Isekeshev during his visit to Germany… See on http://www.timesca.com

Washington Post (blog) Why Ukraine’s crisis keeps central Asian leaders up at night Washington Post (blog) On the one hand, the success of the Euromaidan protests in driving Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych from power obviously raises concerns… See on http://www.washingtonpost.com

Azerbaijan worried about Russia, Kazakh FX impact- c.bank officialReuters“We’re concerned about the possible impact of depreciations in Russia and Kazakhstan on imports, but it will be a temporary effect. See on in.reuters.com

Kazakh leader to visit ChinaAzerNewsKazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will pay a state visit to China, the presidential press service reported. See on http://www.azernews.az

UPDATE 3-Kazakhstan sues foreign oil majors over flailing Kashagan Reuters ASTANA, March 7 (Reuters) – Kazakhstan is suing foreign oil majors developing its huge Kashagan oilfield in the Caspian Sea, a tactic similar to those that secured the… See on…