- Wednesday, 26 August, 2026
- Almaty 77 °F / 25 °C
- Astana 79 °F / 26 °C
NUR-SULTAN – While the Kazakh wilderness is usually associated with horses and steppes, it is also the land of the famous singing sand dunes, forests, mountains and...
NUR-SULTAN – The Comic Con 2019 convention in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan’s first, gathered more than 53,000 people interested in geek culture for two days of events and competitions...
NUR-SULTAN – For more than two decades, May 31 has been observed as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression in Kazakhstan. Two other...
NUR-SULTAN – The water supply will be improved this year for 126,800 people in 68 Kazakh villages. Approximately 90.2 percent or 16.5 million people out of Kazakhstan’s...
NUR-SULTAN – After the National Bank’s purge of what it identified as bad actors in 2018, Kazakhstan’s remaining second-tier banks are now undertaking mergers and acquisitions to...
NUR-SULTAN – Turkey’s Sembol Construction will build a 600-room resort on the Caspian Sea coast in Aktau, said Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin May 31 during the...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh national female basketball team took the silver medal May 26 at the Asia Cup 3×3 finale. In the final game, the Kazakh national...
NUR-SULTAN – Pop music group A’Studio will premiere the “Soldier of Love” musical at the capital’s Palace of Peace and Harmony Nov. 15, reports the city’s akimat...
NUR-SULTAN – Approximately 3,000 runners, led by Kazakh track and field athlete Olga Rypakova, participated in a one-mile run in the capital June 2 as part of...
NUR-SULTAN – In the Year of Youth, the Astana Art Show is supporting young Kazakh artists by encouraging them to explore experimental approaches in contemporary art. The...
NUR-SULTAN – Iowa University’s International Writing Programme (IWP) along with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. State Department organised May 20-26 the Lines...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government plans to build the infrastructure necessary to support 5G networks in Nur-Sultan, Almaty and Shymkent by the end of the year. The...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh mortgage companies doubled their assets over the last year, reaching 546.3 billion tenge (US$1.43 billion) at the end of April. Approximately 50.8 percent of...
NUR-SULTAN – Improved Lake Alakol resort housing, car and train accessibility and police will make the resort more attractive to tourists. “Therefore, there will be the Keruen...
NUR-SULTAN – The Italian Embassy in Kazakhstan for the second time this year organised May 20-25 Fare Cinema Italian cinema week in Nur-Sultan and Almaty as a...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan recently simplified export procedures to boost e-commerce and Kazakhstan’s national mail service, Kazpost, has also launched services to facilitate more e-commerce, said Kazpost Board...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh chess champion Zhansaya Abdumalik improved her Elo rating to 2,414 by defeating former world champions in blitz at the 2019 International Mind Sports Association’s...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana Opera will be hosting both festive and regular events in June, with young and established musicians getting a chance to showcase their talent....
NUR-SULTAN – The East Kazakhstan Region’s akimat (administration) is going to replace 90 percent of the city’s bus fleet with newer vehicles. “Dear Semey residents, two years...
NUR-SULTAN – Participants at the May 29 Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) summit here discussed cooperation within the union, efforts to strengthen its relationship with non-union countries as...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government adopted the latest package of amendments May 28 to the programme supporting domestic production of daily consumed goods and services, known as...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh State String Quartet performed for the first time May 17 at Brussels’ BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, staging the works of Austrian composer...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s national ice hockey team will play in Group B, including the reigning champions Finland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and the United States, at...
NUR-SULTAN – Four Kazakh presidential candidates and three of their representatives discussed social and economic issues and how to solve them in a May 29 live televised...
International competition for investment is increasing, and investment flows are fluctuating due to a global decline of investor confidence in emerging economies. Today, to encourage foreign investors,...
The Sustainable Development Goals approved by the UN, the concluding of the Paris Agreement in 2015 are events that formed constructive development trends for the planet. The...
NUR-SULTAN – Amirzhan Kossanov, 55, considers himself the opposition candidate in the upcoming June 9 presidential elections in Kazakhstan, he told The Astana Times in an exclusive...
NUR-SULTAN – Communist People’s Party of Kazakhstan (CPPK) candidate for president Zhambyl Akhmetbekov promises to renounce Western influence and values, fight oligarchs and poverty and promote economic...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s presidential candidates will participate in an 80-minute televised debate May 29 on the Khabar national television channel, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced May...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh professional tennis player Yulia Putintseva won her first Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) singles title May 25 at Germany’s Nuremberg Cup, reports Wtatennis.com. Top-seeded Putintseva...
