FRANCE – KAZAKHSTAN – French President François Hollande arrived in Kazakhstan on Friday for a two-day visit to a country with vast uranium and gas reserves and infrastructure contracts… Source: http://www.english.rfi.fr

PARIS (AP) — Traced to a Cote d’Azur villa by private detectives for the bank he once led, the Kazakh oligarch-turned-dissident is dwarfed by the masked French court guards flanking Source: siouxcityjournal.com

Western sanctions against Russia over its role in Ukraine should end, Kazakhstan’s deputy foreign minister said here Friday at a ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe. Source: latino.foxnews.com

Kazakhstan has the possibility of becoming the breadbasket of central Asia, and Arman Sultanbek wants to make that happen. Source: http://www.wiscnews.com

Russia’s currency and bond rout isspreading to former Soviet states. Source: http://www.businessweek.com

Kazakhstan hosted a business forum with French collegues to discuss trade cooperation. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

PARIS (Reuters) – French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroën and AllurGroup signed an agreement to assemble vehicles in Kazakhstan, Peugeot said in a statement. Vehicle assemb… Source: au.news.yahoo.com

Photo exhibition Women of Kazakhstan: History and Contemporary held in Helsinki Source: kazinform.kz

Dozens of residents of a village in western Kazakhstan have fainted in recent days, in what an environmental activist says may be the effect of a toxic gas leak from a big oil field 5 kilometers away. Source: http://www.rferl.org

Hollande can’t sell to Russia; his second choice apparently Kazakhstan. pic.twitter.com/0LEGIpXpgL Source: twitter.com