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News Roundup - October 12, 2007
EurasiaNet Insight: EU Official Urges Building Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline
A trans-Caspian gas pipeline should be built and could become a good opportunity to pipe gas from Central Asia to Europe, the secretary-general of the Council of the European Union and the high representative for common foreign and security policy of the European Union, Javier Solana, believes…
Oil and Gas Journal: EU’s Solana Promotes EU-Asia Energy Cooperation
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Central Asia Oct. 10 expressed hope that disagreement over the Kashagan oil field project will be solved in terms of the existing agreement…
Kazinform: Inflation Rate in Kazakhstan Made 8.6 % for 9 Months
“The rate of inflation in Kazakhstan made 8.6 per cent for the period of 9 months, 2007,” Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov said today at the governmental session in Astana with the participation of President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev…
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty: Rocket Ban Still In Place Ahead Of Scheduled Russian Launch
Russia is scheduled to launch a Proton rocket into orbit with three of its GLONASS satellites from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome on October 25…
TREND: International Conference Dedicated to ‘Kazakhstan- 2030’ Strategy’s 10th Anniversary to Begin in Astana
An international conference dedicated to the tenth Anniversary of ‘Kazakhstan- 2030’ strategy will begin in Astana on 12 October, according to the event’s organizing committee…
NewEurasia.net: North Kazakhstan Surprised with New Leadership as Mansurov Leaves for EurAsEC
On October 8th local authorities in Petropavlovsk, the administrative center of North Kazakhstan Oblast, announced that President Nazarbayev and his entourage would be flying in to on the following day to proclaim a new akim…
Ferghana.ru: Nearly 100,000 Chinese Entered Kazakhstan in 2006
Almost 100,000 Chinese entered the territory of Kazakhstan in 2006 and only 5,000 of them obtained the official permit to remain, Yelena Sadovskaya said at her press conference in Alma-Ata on October 98…
Kazinform: Area Phone Codes in Kazakhstan Changed as of October 5
Please note that area phone codes in Kazakhstan have been changed as of October 5. The first digit “3” in all the area codes in Kazakhstan has been changed for “7”…
United Press International: Analysis: The Caspian’s Division
The eyes of Western energy companies will be focused next week on Tehran, where the second Caspian Sea Littoral States Summit will convene Oct. 16. Atop the meeting’s agenda is a discussion of the final status of the division of Caspian waters among the five littoral states of Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, an issue that has bedeviled their relations since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union…
International Herald Tribune: Russia Snubs Major Energy Conference Organized by East European Consumer Nations
Russia snubbed a major energy conference on Thursday attended by presidents and ministers of 20 European and Central Asian countries, highlighting the tension between the region’s largest energy supplier and various importing nations…
Forbes: ENRC Prepares Draft Prospectus for 5 Bln USD IPO
Kazakhstan mining company Eurasian natural Resources Corporation has prepared a draft prospectus for an initial public offering, which could raise as much as 5 bln usd, indicating it may come to the London Stock Exchange in the next few months…
The Financial Times: Five States Agree Caspian Oil Pipeline Extension to Reduce Reliance on Russia
A plan to build a pipeline to reduce central and eastern Europe’s dependence on Russian oil was signed by five former communist countries in Lithuania last night…
The Financial Times: ENRC Listing Could Raise $5bn
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation from Kazakhstan has prepared a draft prospectus for an initial public offering that could raise as much as $5bn (£2.46bn), in a sign that it hopes to float on the London Stock Exchange in the coming months…
Ferghana.ru: Cruelty in the Barracks in the Regular Kazakh Army Remains a Problem Kept under the Lid
Whoever refuses to feed his own army will feed a foreign. This axiom remains true even now. Unfortunately, the army demands more than donations in the form of taxes. It also demands human sacrifices…
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