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Russian space officials on Friday honored international space station crew members who suffered through a botched landing in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz capsule last month.U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and South Korean...
Kazakhstan has not yet fulfilled its commitments on democratic reforms ahead of taking up the chairmanship of an international security and democracy group in 2010, a U.S. congressional delegation said Tuesday.Kazakhstan, which will become the first...
A dam project helped raise water levels and increase fish stocks in the northern part of the depleted Aral Sea, offering hope of some revival in areas of one of the world’s worst ecological disasters, the president of the World Bank said Thursday.The...
Rescuers raced against time to save five workers trapped in a Kazakhstan coal mine after an accident Monday, officials said.The Emergency Situations Ministry said 95 other workers were safely evacuated after a sudden discharge of methane caused a...
The crew of the Soyuz capsule that landed hundreds of miles off target in Kazakhstan last weekend was in serious danger during the descent, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday.Interfax quoted an unidentified space official as saying the capsule...
A Russian capsule carrying South Korea’s first astronaut touched down 260 miles off target in northern Kazakhstan on Saturday after hurtling through the atmosphere in a bone-jarring descent from the international space station.It was the second time in...
A Soyuz capsule carrying South Korea’s first astronaut touched down in northern Kazakhstan on Saturday, 260 miles from its target landing site, a Russian space official said.The Russian TMA-11 craft touched down around 4:30 a.m. EDT after a...
Agriculture futures mostly rose Tuesday after Kazakhstan banned wheat exports to help ease spiraling food inflation in the Central Asian nation, in the process adding to global supply concerns.Other commodities traded mostly higher, with crude oil rising...
In an April 8 story about South Korea’s first astronaut, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Yi So-yeon, 29, was the youngest woman ever to fly to space. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was 26 when she became the world’s first woman to...
A Russian capsule carrying South Korea’s first astronaut and two cosmonauts blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, en route to the international space station.The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the...
Way back in 2003, Studio Nicoletti won a competition to construct Kazakhstan State Auditorium in the capital city of Astana. Now nearing completion, the State Auditorium is building into an imposing structure, as bit unique as it is colossal. Located...
I bring you this story straight from the Khan Satyry Entertainment Center, Astana, Kazakhstan. This center for entertainment is all set to create a stir as it grows to be the local theatrical central point for Astana, the capital city. The actual...
The vicious side of global warming is apparent to all and most of the nations are pledged to take possible measures on it. Oil drillers are widely criticized and pressurized to minimize their proven role in it. After decades of environmentalists’...
Things are going as planned for president Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. His Nur Otan party is expected to sweep the Mazhilis [Parliament] polls. If exit polls are to be believed it will get about 78% of the votes cast. The chief opposition party,...
I must thank all the BornRich readers for making it one of the top-notch luxury blogs on the web. And yes, thanks to Internet also that has infact made it possible. Fine...let’s come to the point. We are all accessing internet from our homes, offices, and...
In a bid to enforce new set of reforms, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev dissolved the Central Asian state’s Parliament and announced new elections to the dismay of the opposition which calls it a deception to reign supreme in the...
World-renowned architect Lord Norman Foster has recently completed his geometric and eye-catching Palace of Peace and Reconciliation - a giant glass pyramid opera house in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Foster’s new project, Khan Shatyry Entertainment...
Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have agreed to build a new natural gas pipeline around the Caspian Sea, giving Russia significant control over Central Asia’s massive natural gas reserves.
The agreement ensures Russia’s supremacy over...
The mysterious death of hundreds of seals washed up on the Caspian Sea coast of Kazakhstan in the past two weeks has dealt a blow to the already dwindling Caspian seal - Phoca caspica.
In just a century, hunting to pollution threats has declined the...
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev who took a bold decision about ten years ago and shifted the capital of the country from Almaty to Astana has now another amazing plan for the city. He plans to build a giant transparent tent that will contain...
Kazakhstan’s Kairat Nurdauletov, foreground, fights for the ball with Andorra’s Juan Carlos Toscano, during their friendly soccer match in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. Kazakhstan won 3- 0.
