A video published on social media shows the two-storey roadside cafe suddenly disappearing in a massive blast that covered the area with thick smoke. Photos of the aftermath of the incident show the cafe razed to the ground with only rubble remaining in its place and the surrounding area littered with piles of debris. …
Read More »Businessman offers to swap Buran spaceplane replica for skull of Kazakhstan’s last khan as Russia seeks return of legendary craft
According to Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Roscosmos, the bizarre offer came after complaints from Moscow that the Buran model may eventually fall to pieces due to severe neglect. There was no indication that the proposal could or would be accepted. The Buran (‘blizzard’ in Russian) was the first spaceplane to …
Read More »Putin discusses Afghanistan with presidents of Turkey and Kazakhstan
Putin and Erdogan held phone talks on Saturday, according to the Kremlin press service. The leaders discussed various issues, including the ongoing firefighting efforts in Turkey, where a Russian Be-200 plane recently crashed. They also had “an in-depth discussion” on Afghanistan in light of the Taliban takeover and disintegration of …
Read More »Why you should care about Kazakhstan: The drought nobody is talking about could be a harbinger of doom for the region & the West
The reason for this intervention, which has come after the resignation of an agriculture minister and against the wishes of some farmers and exporters, is a severe drought in much of the west of the country. Following on from a dry winter, it has lasted for months and already inflicted …
Read More »In Kazakhstan, twenty-five convicted pedophiles have been chemically castrated by court order just this year, official reveals
Chemical castration works by inserting anaphrodisiac drugs that reduce the libido by blocking testosterone. According to a Kazakh law that came into force in 2018, those sentenced to time in jail for raping a minor can be court-ordered to receive it as a punishment. The effects of the injection do …
Read More »Manned Soyuz MS-16 crew successfully touches down in Kazakhstan after 196 days in space
NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 commander Chris Cassidy, as well as two Russian cosmonauts, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, touched down some 150km (90 miles) southeast of Zhezqazghan, a city in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan, at 2:54am GMT (around 6am Moscow time) on Thursday. The descent, which was broadcast by the …
Read More »Kazakhstan plans to ban the import of gasoline from Russia by rail
The Kazakh authorities intend to impose a ban for three months on the importation of gasoline, aviation and diesel fuel from Russia by rail for a period. This is stated in the draft order of the Minister of energy of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nogayev “On some issues of supply of petroleum …
Read More »Increasing the number of dead and wounded after the riots in Kazakhstan
The riots in Kazakhstan killed 10 people, for medical assistance to 165 people, 50 were hospitalized, 8 of them are in intensive care. This was announced by the Deputy Minister of health of the Republic Lyazat Aktayeva, RIA “Novosti”. Previously it was known about the eight victims. We will remind, …
Read More »Kazakhstan has begun a quiet war against the so-called Russian
Back in October, 2019 with the filing of the former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan started to be seriously considered initiatives on the transfer of the alphabet to the Latin alphabet. In January 2019, one year ago, deputies of the Kazakh Parliament has also offered to support the …
Read More »“Russia will soon begin to lag behind Kazakhstan”
The Russian economy continues to lag behind the world. Russian rate — below 2%, if not 1.5 percent, of the world — twice. It’s not pleasing anyone, and the President in the first place. Vladimir Putin set the goal: Russia must enter the top five economies in the world on …
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