Contents tagged with Kazakhstan
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Russia deploys troops to Kazakhstan
Russia has sent airborne troops to Kazakhstan as part of "the peacekeeping force" from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), reports Interfax, citing the CSTO statement.
"The main tasks of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces will be the protection of important state and military facilities, assisting the law enforcement forces of Kazakhstan in stabilizing the situation and bringing it back to the legal plane," the CSTO said.
It is noted that the "peacekeepers" have already …
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Kazakhstan’s president asks Russia to deploy troops to the country
Kazakhstan has appealed for help to the member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a televised address on Wednesday evening.
According to him, the protesters who seized city administrations, police stations and other law enforcement facilities are "terrorist gangs" that have been "trained abroad."
The mass unrest that began on January 2 and four days later developed into a nationwide uprising, according to Tokayev, "can and should …
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Kazakhstan elites flee the country
At least eight private business jets, according to Flight Radar, took off from Kazakhstan in the morning of Wednesday, January 5, amid mass protests, looting of the government buildings and reports of security forces joining the protesters.
According to Ateo Breaking, among others, a Bombardier Global 500 with registration number 9H-AVA, belonging to the husband of Dinara Nazarbayeva, the daughter of the country's first president Nursultan Nazarbayev, who after his resignation in 2019 retained …
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Internet cut off across Kazakhstan amid mass protests
Kazakhstan authorities are shutting down the internet across the country amid mass protests that began On January 2 in the city of Zhanaozen, and the next three days spread to all major cities, including Almaty and the capital Nur-Sutlan.
On Wednesday, January 5, the Central Asian republic had almost no internet follows from the data of the NetBlock service, which tracks network outages around the world.
Partial internet shutdowns began on Monday. Representatives of the cellular providers …
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Kazakhstan first president’s grandson seeks political asylum in UK and promises to expose Putin’s ‘offshore wallets’
Aisultan Nazarbayev, grandson of Kazakhstan’s first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has requested political asylum in the UK and promised to expose the details of multi-billion dollar corruption with gas contracts, reports finanz.ru. He claims that Kazakh leaders and “Russia’s upper echelon” – including Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller and Russian President Vladimir Putin – are involved in the corrupt schemes.
29 year-old Aisultan, son of Nursultan Nazarbayev’s eldest daughter Dariga, wrote about …
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Kazakhstan questions reliability of Russian gas supply
The government of Kazakhstan is considering the possibility of connecting to the Force of Siberia 2 gas pipeline project, but it is unclear how reliable the supply will be, said Kazakhstani Deputy Energy Minister Makhambet Dosmukhambetov on Tuesday.
“In the Eastern Kazakhstan province, the gas field in the region has relatively small quantities of gas, which are not sufficient to supply the entire province – only on a regional scale. There they are considering an option, if Russia and China …
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China sends soldiers to Russia for 'army games'
China’s People’s Liberation Army is sending soldiers to Russia to participate in the International Army Games 2019 which will be held in Russia and five other former Soviet states.
In addition to troops, China will be sending military equipment such as tanks and fighter aircraft to the games, whose competitions which will include a tank biathlon, “Aviadarts” - a competition for flight crews, and the “Masters of artillery fire”.
For the first time in the history of the Chinese armed forces, a …
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Russia to pay Kazakhstan $76 million for 'dirty' oil
The Russian state-owned company Transneft will pay a compensation of about $76 million to the Kazakh national oil transporter KazTransOil for contaminated oil, reports Deutsche Welle news agency.
"Loss of quality, downtime, and storage are included in the amount of compensation," - said one of the sources of Bloomberg. A formal agreement between the two operators has not yet been signed. Earlier, Reuters reported that Russia will pay Kazakhstan a fixed amount for contaminated oil.
According …
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Kazakhstan’s economic growth 6 times faster than Russia’s
Kazakhstan’s economy is reaffirming its status as one of the fastest growing economies not only among former Soviet states, but even in all of Central Asia, finanz.ru reports.
Amid the launch of the country’s largest oil field, Kashagan, and a boom in uranium mining, in which Kazakhstan has been number one in the world for seven years, the country’s GDP has been growing nearly six times faster than Russia’s.
At the end of January-May, government statistics placed the country’s economic growth …
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Kazakhstan suspends liquefied gas supplies to Ukraine
Kazakhstan company Tengizchevroil (TCO) stopped the supply of liquefied gas in the direction of Ukraine, reports enkorr information resource, citing several sources in the Ukrainian companies, holders of Term Contracts with Tengizchevroil.
According to the sources, the Kazakh trader is afraid of potential problems with the passage of wagons through the Russian-Ukrainian border due to Russian sanctions against Ukraine that enter into force on June 1.
"There is no permission to cross the …