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President Nazarbayev rejected the nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Peoples Assembly, reports Gazeta.kz. In the good-old fashion of the benevolent statesman, Nazarbayev expressed his gratitude, but also said that…
“…we are working not for awards, but for our country’s prestige.”
Unfortunately, the short article does not give any details about the reasons […]

Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea fleet is being extended, both through international assistance and domestic construction of new patrol vessels. But from which of the five littoral states does Kazakhstan need protection?
The last notably serious military incident in the Caspian dates back to the 24th of July 2001, when an Iranian gunboat ordered BP research […]

Central Asian countries face numerous problems in the delimitation and demarcation of their borders. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia, China, and all five Central Asian states – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – accepted the old Soviet borders. Nevertheless, those administrative frontiers had never been clearly demarcated and thus pose […]

US General John Abizaid, on his working visit to Astana, is quoted saying that the US would not decline if the Kazakh government invited them to open a base:
“We don’t envision opening bases here, unless Kazakhstan, the Kazakhstani government, would invite us to do so,” Gen John Abizaid said after meeting with Defense Minister […]