Imitation of struggle against corruption – “know-how” of the Kazakh authorities in power-struggle and stealing of what left from huge
resources of Kazakhstan

There are 73 prisons in Kazakhstan, including 17 colony-settlements. Most of the places of detention are overcrowded. The total number of the convinced in the Republic of Kazakhstan exceeds 56.000. In 2007 only the number of sentenced increased for 4.300 (Regnum, March 19, 2008).

- 6 out of 10 of Russian-speaking people in Kazakhstan want to leave “the most economically developed and rich country of Central Asia”.

- 9 out of 10 students in Kazakh universities are representatives of autochthonal population, whereas Kazakhs constitutes 5.5 out of 10 of the population.

Banking liquidity crisis in the United States were enough to down two of three leading sectors of Kazakh economy for the count and put the country on the verge of default. It is well known that owing to the global liquidity crisis and reduction of scale of financing at foreign markets, the Kazakh banks’ credit activities have fallen. As a result, a number of international agencies like Fitch and Moody’s reduced the rating of Kazakhstan's liabilities in foreign and local currencies.

Four Years of 10% Economic Growth and the Central Asian “Leader” Got into a Debtor's Prison for a Quarter of a Century.

Professor Stefaan Simons (UCL Chemical Engineering), UCL’s Special Advisor on Kazakhstan and Director of the UCL Centre for CO2 Technology, has been awarded a medal for services to education in Kazakhstan by the Kazakh Minister of Education & Science, Mr Zhanseit Tuimebayev.

Rakhat Aliev was once one of the most powerful and influential people in oil-rich Kazakhstan. But after an Almaty court ruling late on January 15, he's now a fugitive from the law.

Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan signed a landmark agreement today to build a natural gas pipeline along the Caspian Sea coast that would strengthen Moscow's monopoly on energy exports from the resource-rich region.

With the spot price of uranium climbing through $93/lb (again), and a shortage of sulphuric acid in Kazakhstan – the chemical necessary for the leaching process that isolates U3O8 from ore – likely to compound demand, there is every indicator that uranium prices will climb sharply (again) in the coming months. And despite recent seismic shifts for gold and precious metals, most analysts project the bull markets for precious and base metals will continue to snowball.

Kazakhstan's health ministry said Wednesday that the number of people, infected by drug-resistant tuberculosis is on the rise in almost all of the country's regions.

Tajikistan and Kazakhstan have signed a number of agreements on investment and trade during Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev's visit to Dushanbe.

Kazakhstan wants the right to ban rocket launches from its Baikonur space center, which Russia rents, in situations where the Kazakh president is located near the launch, the prime minister said.