Archive for June 22nd, 2009
Kazakhstan Daily News Roundup - June 22, 2009
HEADLINES:
Wary Kazakh officials to sport loyalty pin
(AFP) - All civil servants in Kazakhstan, already wary of being swept up in a wave of anti-corruption sackings and arrests, have been told to wear lapel badges proclaiming their opposition to graft.
Auction sets Alliance debt value at 16.75 cents on the dollar (SRI)
Kazakhstan considering cap on banks’ foreign debt (SRI)
ENERGY:
India moving into Kazakh energy (UPI)
MINERAL RESOURCES:
Kazakhstan’s steel production down in 2009 (SRI)
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:
Visor research team ranked number one in Kazakhstan - Thomson Extel (SRI)
Kazkommertsbank to hold EGM in July (SRI)
President calls for investors to take a closer look at agricultural sector (Interfax)
Ukraine won’t join Russia, Kazakhstan in grain union - newspaper (Bloomberg)
National Bank of Kazakhstan: Exchange rates June 20-22, 2009 (Kazinform)
POLITICS:
Kazakh president praises new Russian bloc (AFP)
Wary Kazakh officials to sport loyalty pin (AFP)
SOCIETY:
Kazakh leader gets glowing bio by Jonathan Aitken (Reuters)
Over 50 traffic police officers charged with corruption in Almaty (Interfax)
Nation’s inertia and authorities’ non-action preventing spread of Kazakh language (Interfax)
REGIONAL:
US envoy testifies at Azerbaijan corruption trial (AP)
Slowly, Russia closes the noose around Nabucco (New Europe)
Kazakhstan Business and Economy Roundup - June 22, 2009
Visor research team ranked number one in Kazakhstan - Thomson Extel (SRI)
Kazkommertsbank to hold EGM in July (SRI)
President calls for investors to take a closer look at agricultural sector (Interfax)
Ukraine won’t join Russia, Kazakhstan in grain union - newspaper (Bloomberg)
National Bank of Kazakhstan: Exchange rates June 20-22, 2009 (Kazinform)
Kazakhstan Society Roundup - June 22, 2009
Kazakh leader gets glowing bio by Jonathan Aitken (Reuters)
Over 50 traffic police officers charged with corruption in Almaty (Interfax)
Nation’s inertia and authorities’ non-action preventing spread of Kazakh language (Interfax)
Kazakhstan’s steel production down in 2009
(SRI) - In the first five months of 2009, Kazakhstan registered a 19.3-percent decrease in its crude steel production and an 8.1-percent decrease in its production of flat rolled steel compared to the same period in the previous year, according to the the state statistics agency.
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - June 22, 2009
US envoy testifies at Azerbaijan corruption trial (AP)
Slowly, Russia closes the noose around Nabucco (New Europe)
US envoy testifies at Azerbaijan corruption trial
(AP) - America’s special Middle East envoy testified Friday that he still trusts a Connecticut businessman and considers him his friend despite losing $200,000 in an investment that resulted in his friend being charged with helping to bribe government officials in Azerbaijan.
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