Kazakhstan

BOAO, Hainan, March 28 (Xinhua) -- As the world economy faces various challenges calling for a new development paradigm, Asia is well positioned to continue driving global growth and development in the years to come, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said here Thursday.

Addressing the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2024, Tokayev said the meeting takes place against a backdrop of unprecedented global uncertainty, fueled by geopolitical turbulence and economic upheavals, and "the outlook is not very promising."

ASTANA, December 9. /TASS/: Kazakhstan and Russia will constantly work together, despite the "certain shocks" in the world, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said.

"Russia is Kazakhstan’s strategic partner. We have the longest ground border with Russia in the world. And we have traditions of good cooperation, which should be preserved or, at the very least, should not be rejected. And I believe that, despite the certain shocks on the international arena, we will constantly work together," Tokayev said in an interview for Euronews.

ASTANA (Kazakhstan), Nov 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Kazakhstan on Thursday, while Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi are expected in Uzbekistan, amid renewed diplomatic interest in the region.

Central Asia’s former Soviet republics have sought to diversify their partnerships as Moscow’s sway over the region — which it considers as under its sphere of influence — has waned since Russia invaded Ukraine.

ASTANA, November 6. /TASS/: Kazakhstan expects Russian President Vladimir Putin to make an official visit to Astana on November 9, the office of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a statement.

"On November 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin will make an official visit to Astana on November 9, 2023, at the invitation of the head of state, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The two countries’ leaders are expected to hold talks, discussing pressing issues related to Kazakh-Russian strategic partnership," the statement reads.

ASTANA, November 1. /TASS/: Europe needs a stable pattern of relations with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said, speaking to students at the Kazakh Humanitarian Law University named after M.S. Narikbayev.

According to him, "the European defense architecture cannot be built on escalation and conflicts." "Russia is geographically a part of Europe, so we need to build a stable pattern of relations between EU members and non-members, and this includes Russia," Macron emphasized.

ASTANA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Kazakhstan on Wednesday on the first leg of a trip to Central Asia, a region long regarded as Russia's backyard which has drawn fresh Western attention since the war in Ukraine began.

Oil-rich Kazakhstan has already emerged as a replacement supplier of crude to European nations turning off Russian supply and an important link in the new China-Europe trade route bypassing Russia.

ALMATY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio, who broke the record for the longest continuous space flight by an American, and two Russian cosmonauts landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan on Wednesday after more than a year on the International Space Station (ISS).

Their Soyuz MS-23 capsule undocked from the ISS a minute earlier than scheduled, and took around three and a half hours to make it down to Earth, landing southeast of the city of Zhezqazghan.

BAIKONUR COSMODROME /Kazakhstan/, September 15. /TASS/: The Soyuz MS-24 manned spacecraft, which was blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport on Friday, has separated from the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, a TASS correspondent reported.

The spacecraft’s crew are Oleg Kononenko, deputy chief of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and commander of the Roscosmos cosmonaut team, who will become a fourth TASS special correspondent on the orbital outpost orbit, cosmonaut Nikolay Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara.

ASTANA, May 9. /TASS/: Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has held substantive talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his working visit to Russia, and the two presidents emphasized the need to develop the partnership even further, Kazakhstan’s presidential spokesman, Ruslan Zheldibay, told reporters on Tuesday.

"During his working visit to the Russian Federation, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had a comprehensive conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin," he said.

They touched upon pressing bilateral issues at the meeting.

ASTANA, February 28. /TASS/: The United States will impose sanctions on China if it helps Russia in the course of its special military operation in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a joint news conference with his Kazakh counterpart on Tuesday.