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News Roundup - June 18, 2008

By SRI ⋅ June 18, 2008 ⋅

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energy:

Kazakhstan increased oil production in first five months

(Kazinform) - Kazakhstan, the second-biggest oil producer in the former Soviet Union after Russia, increased oil production 7.2 percent in the first five months of the year compared with the same period of 2007.

Russia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan discuss pipeline project

(Itar-Tass) - Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan are arranging principles of the implementation of a Caspian gas pipeline project.

BMB Munai, Inc. announces results for 2008 fiscal year (PR Newswire/redOrbit)

mineral resources:

Kazakhmys to invest up to $50 mln in Boschekul, Aktogay copper projects

(Thomson Financial/Trading Markets) - Kazakhmys Plc., the largest copper producer in Kazakhstan, said it approved an investment of up to $50 million to purchase equipment for the Boschekul and Aktogay copper projects.

Coal and gas outburst caused the accident in Tentek mine – Emergency Agency (Interfax)

business and economy:

JSC Alliance Bank names Azamat Erzhanov CFO (Thomson Financial/Forbes)

Kazakhstan: Grain yield may total 16-17 mln tonnes in 2008 (Agrimarket.info)

Kazakhstan: 13 mln ha were sown under wheat (Agrimarket.info)

National Bank of Kazakhstan: Exchange rates June 18, 2008 (Kazinform)

Indicators - June 17, 2008

(Reuters) - Kazakhstan’s economic indicators based on data provided by the State Statistics Agency, government institutions, the central bank and exchanges.

politics:

Kazakhstan’s armed forces look for Western ‘approval’

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) - Kazakhstan’s military and security relationship with Russia, strong and rooted in common interests and approaches expressed through bilateral and multilateral defense cooperation, shows signs of deepening in new ways that reveal some of the most pressing priorities of Kazakhstan’s defense policies.

Kazakhstan: Making preparations for a snap parliamentary election

(Ferghana.ru/Turkish Weekly) - A snap parliamentary election may take place in Kazakhstan next year. Experts believe the government will agree to demands by European democratic institutions that insist on transforming the single-party legislature into a bipartisan forum.

General prosecutor reaches out to Austria

(neweurasia.net) - Here are some bad news for Rakhat Aliyev coming from the Kazakhstani General prosecutor’s office, which has been pushing for extradition of the disgraced former presidential son-in-law for nearly a year.

Head of the State received World Bank President Robert Zoellick (Kazinform)

Number of public officers should be limited: Nazarbayev (Kazinform)

society:

Kazakhstan: Living under cult

(Global Voices) - The main discussion this week in Kazakhstani blogosphere was caused by the suggestion that was voiced by a number of MPs to rename the capital city Astana to Nursultan, in the honor of the long-ruling president Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Statistics show HIV and AIDS spreading in Kazakhstan (Interfax)

regional news:

India looks to Central Asia for energy

(UPI) - It is unlikely that the planned massive pipeline from Iran to India will be built in the next ten years. The same is true for the pipeline from Central Asia to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan.