Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
2008 Kazakhstan Special Weapons News
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- Kazakh Government Prepares To Impose Elements Of Democracy RFE/RL 17 Nov 2008 -- Two ingredients usually found in a democracy are a parliament with representatives from more than one political party and an unfettered, independent media
- Kazakhstan to fund ISS flight for homegrown astronaut RIA Novosti 17 Nov 2008 -- A Kazakh national will fly to the International Space Station in October 2009 "on a commercial basis," the Russian space agency said on Mond
- Ex-Soviet states hold joint air defense drills RIA Novosti 23 Oct 2008 -- Members of the CIS successfully conducted a joint command-and-staff air defense exercise as part of the integrated air defense network.
- Kazakhstan withdraws soldiers from Iraq RIA Novosti 21 Oct 2008 -- Kazakhstan withdrew its 29 sappers and engineers from Iraq, where they had been stationed as part of the Multi-National Force.
- Ex-Soviet states to test integrated air defense this week RIA Novosti 20 Oct 2008 -- More than 50 combat aircraft will participate in a joint command-and-staff air defense exercise conducted by members of the CIS.
- Kazakhstan Set To Increase Energy Cooperation With Iran RFE/RL 16 Oct 2008 -- KazMunaiGaz, Kazakhstan's state-owned oil and gas company, is charting a new course under the leadership of its new president, Kayrgeldy Kabyldin, who took over in August
- Kazakh Electors Pick Fresh Crop Of Senators RFE/RL 04 Oct 2008 -- The head of Kazakhstan's election authority has endorsed the results of an indirect vote to fill a handful of seats in the country's rubber-stamp upper house of parliament, saying candidates won majorities in all 16 contests
- Presidential Picks To Dominate Kazakh Senate Elections RFE/RL 03 Oct 2008 -- Kazakhstan's indirect Senate elections are likely to flood parliament's upper house with more supporters of President Nursultan Nazarbaev and unlikely to persuade anyone outside his clannish base of the country's democratic credentials/li>
- Kazakhstan proposes international uranium exchange RIA Novosti 16 Sep 2008 -- Kazakhstan is proposing the creation of what amounts to an international uranium market, the president of the country's national uranium producer said on Tuesday.
- Georgia Crisis Highlights Kazakhstan's Balancing Act RFE/RL 20 Aug 2008 -- Two major Russia-related events have occurred literally one after another this month
- France's Areva, Kazakhstan sign uranium production deal RIA Novosti 11 Jun 2008 -- France's Areva and Kazakhstan's national Kazatomprom have signed a deal to produce 4,000 metric tons of uranium a year until 2039, the nuclear companies said in a joint news release on Wednesday.
- Kazakh parliament ratifies UN nuclear terrorism convention RIA Novosti 24 Apr 2008 -- Kazakhstan's parliament ratified on Thursday a United Nations convention on preventing nuclear terrorism, the press service of the upper house announced.
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