ASTANA – “We are together,” the exhibit of Russian artists Alexei Talaschuk and Latif Kazbekov, has been on display at the Kazakh National Museum with the aim of deepening cultural ties between the two countries. Source: http://www.astanatimes.com

Kazakhstan capital Almaty is bidding against Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games and Alexandre Vinokourov has been named an ambassador Source: http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk

Talks with 100 companies with volume of investments over USD 40 bln held in Kazakhstan Source: kazakh-tv.kz

A Russian supply ship, the Progress M-26M, launched atop a Soyuz rocket for the 58th Progress cargo delivery shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in … Source: http://www.youtube.com

vestnik kavkaza The Washington Post on Russia’s friends in Europe vestnik kavkaza For a number of Eastern European governments it is much easier to identify themselves with the certain political, albeit difficult, course of the Russian Federation… Source: vestnikkavkaza.net

Kazakhstan will for sure hold early presidential election in 2015 as it was proposed earlier, researcher at CIDOB Barcelona Centre for International Affairs Nicolas de Pedro believes. Source: en.trend.az

He was elected by almost 96 percent of votes in 2011 and his five-year term ends only in late 2016. Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com

Kazakhstan and France are to work together on unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), Kazakh national defence company Kazakhstan Engineering revealed on its website on 16 February. Source: http://www.janes.com

International publisher of economic annual The Business Year (TBY) has renewed a strategic partnership agreement with KAZNEX INVEST, the national development institute that assists Kazakhstani enterprises to develop and promote local export and to… Source: en.trend.az

Surprise, surprise – the next presidential election in Kazakhstan will likely take place one year earlier than expected. Source: http://www.silkroadreporters.com