Astana Opera House to present Gioachino Rossini’s opera “The Silken Ladder”

NUR-SULTAN – The Astana Opera House will premiere Gioachino Rossini’s one-act operatic comedy “The Silken Ladder” as part of the Piccolo theatre project April 6 and 7....


FlyArystan low-cost airline launches flights between Almaty, Uralsk, Taraz, Nur-Sultan

NUR-SULTAN – New low-cost airline FlyArystan will launch flights between Almaty and Taraz, Almaty and Oral and Almaty and Nur-Sultan in May. The direct flights from Almaty...


Inclusive kindergarten opens in capital

NUR-SULTAN – RostOk inclusive kindergarten, which provides rehabilitation for children with autism spectrum disorders, hearing impairments and speech and movement disorders, opened April 1 in the capital....


Kazpost uses drones to increase newspaper and magazine delivery to rural areas

NUR-SULTAN – Kazpost used drones to increase the volume of newspapers and magazines delivered to rural areas tenfold in 2018. The action has made periodical delivery more...


Kazakh acrobatic gymnasts win medals at 2019 World Cup in Las Vegas

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh male acrobatic gymnastics team of Daniel Dil and Vadim Shulyar won the gold medal March 25 at the 2019 Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique...


New course available to teach spelling rules of Kazakh Latin script

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh linguists presented March 26 a course available in the capital to teach the systematic spelling rules of Kazakh Latin script. The course takes 72...


Turkestan Region entrepreneur starts Paulownia business

NUR-SULTAN – Dauren Baltabaiuly, an entrepreneur from the Saryagash district in Turkestan region, has aroused the interest of locals since planting 40,000 paulownia trees on two hectares....


Kazakhstan experiences industrial growth, takes efforts to continue growth

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s industrial sector is growing and the government is taking measures to keep that momentum going, according to a recent report. Minister of Industry and...


Kazakh capital name change to be gradual, existing legal documents remain valid

NUR-SULTAN – The country will keep Astana name as world known brand and renaming process will be gradual and not expensive. The capital residents don’t need to...


Kazakh filmmaker directs videos for US hip-hop artists

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh filmmaker Aisultan Seitov has entered the American hip-hop market. He recently directed “Red Room,” a music video for Migos member Offset, reported Kazinform. Seitov...


Kazakhstan to double domestic vehicle production, build three vehicle manufacturing plants

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan plans to double domestic production of automobiles to meet demand within the Eurasian Economic Union, according to the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development....


Astana Kazakh Drama theatre premieres Abai Jan

NUR-SULTAN – Astana Kazakh Drama Theatre recently staged “Abai Jan,” a one-person show starring Nurken Oteuil. Directed by Farkhad Moldagali, the play tracks a young man reflecting...


Kazakh NB, government set directions for economic growth, price level stability

NUR-SULTAN – The National Bank and Government of Kazakhstan signed an agreement to coordinate macroeconomic policy measures. The agreement will attract investment in fixed assets at a...


Russian artist to open exhibition at Kulanshi Art Centre

NUR-SULTAN – Russian artist Tatiana Vavrzhina will open her exhibition “Endless Love” April 2 at the capital’s Kulanshi Art Centre. The show will continue through May 10....


Kazakh light industries focus on local market, face shortage of high-quality raw materials

NUR-SULTAN – Light industry is one of the priorities for the Kazakh economy. Product exports were $108.5 million for January-August 2018, 21 percent lower compared to the...


Denis Ten exhibition attracted 35,000 visitors in Japan

NUR-SULTAN – The Denis Ten Foundation organised the D10 world exhibition, dedicated to the memory of the Kazakh figure skater and bronze medallist at the 2014 Sochi...


Petropavlovsk-made socks in demand by domestic market

NUR-SULTAN – Matex recently opened the first and only facility in the North Kazakhstan region that manufactures socks. The company represents the economy of simple things in...


Podcasts find growing audience, become new social opinion platform for creative Kazakhs

NUR-SULTAN – Why do creative individuals launch podcasts in a period of YouTube domination? What topics do they explore? Is podcasting becoming more popular in Kazakhstan? The...


Calendar to feature photos of Kazakh athletes outside of sports

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh National Olympic Committee will release a calendar with photos of Kazakh athletes dedicated to Nauryz holiday. The athletes’ fans can win the calendar...


Volunteer programme, eagle hunting centres added to Kazakh Year of Youth initiatives

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government recently added eagle hunting centres, volunteer coordination and self-defence courses to its Year of Youth initiatives. The programmes were added to the...


Kazakhstan to set up cancer molecular genetic laboratories, gears support towards cancer diagnosis, treatment

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will establish molecular genetic laboratories in its effort to boost support for early cancer diagnosis and treatment, said Minister of Healthcare Yelzhan Birtanov at...


Twenty percent of Kazakh schoolchildren suffer from excess weight

ASTANA – Nearly 20 percent of Kazakh youngsters in grades three-four are overweight and 1.1 percent of them suffer from extreme obesity, a situation which poses a...


Elizabet Tursynbayeva wins silver medal at World Championship, completes history-making quadruple salchow

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh figure skater Elizabet Tursynbayeva, who won the silver medal at the 2019 World Figure Skating Championship in Saitama, Japan March 22, made history in...


Two dead, 27 injured in rush-hour bus accident

NUR-SULTAN – Two people were killed and 27 were injured March 26 when three metropolitan buses, two passenger cars and an ambulance collided at the intersection of...


Renaming capital an appropriate way to honour Kazakhstan’s founding president

On March 23, new  President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree and a law approving an amendment to Constitution renaming Astana to Nur-Sultan. A bill to...


Kazakh university gets nation’s first ASIIN international accreditation

ASTANA – The International Information Technologies University (IITU) in Almaty obtained March 5 international accreditation of the ASIIN (Accreditation Agency for Degree Programmes in Engineering, Informatics, Natural...


Dimash Kudaibergen wins audience vote at World’s Best competition, voluntarily leaves competition

ASTANA – Young Kazakh singer Dimash Kudaibergen voluntarily left the World’s Best competition and won the audience vote for the best performance singing French song “SOS d’un...


Economic News in Brief

Kazakhstan’s government and its National Bank announced in a joint statement March 20 that they “will carry out the instructions and announced initiatives of the First President,”...


Business news in brief

Businesses in Kazakhstan must switch to using cash registers with online-transmission functions by the end of 2019 as a result of tax changes taking effect this year....


External News in Brief

Kazakh Minister of Energy Kanat Bozumbayev participated in the March 17 meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Baku....