Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
2016 Kazakhstan Special Weapons News
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- French Court Cancels Extradition Of Kazakh Dissident Tycoon To Russia RFE/RL 09 Dec 2016 -- France's highest administrative court has canceled an extradition order to send Kazakh tycoon and opposition leader Mukhtar Ablyazov to Russia.
- Kazakh President Says 'No Need' To Rename Capital After Him RFE/RL 25 Nov 2016 -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev says that "there is no need" to change the name of the country's capital, Astana, after the Kazakh parliament proposed to rename the city after him.
- Kazakhstan's Kashagan Starts Up...Again RFE/RL 13 Oct 2016 -- Production at Kazakhstan's enormous Kashagan oil and natural-gas field has started again. Already more than a decade behind schedule, and billions of dollars overbudget, the project once seen as Kazakhstan's ticket to El Dorado is now just hoping to alleviate some of the economic pain the country is experiencing and break even before too many more years pass.
- Kazakh President Cancels Visits To Be Treated For 'Cold' RFE/RL 11 Oct 2016 -- Kazakhstan's presidential office says President Nursultan Nazarbaev is being treated for a cold and will be unable to make some planned trips abroad.
- Kazakhstan to Receive Su-30 Fighters, Mi-17 , Mi-35 Helicopters From Russia Sputnik 07 Sep 2016 -- Kazakhstan's armed forces will receive multirole fighters and transport helicopters from Russia this year.
- Kazakhstan's S-300 Systems to Join Integrated Air Defense With Russia Sputnik 24 Aug 2016 -- Kazakhstan will put five battalions of S-300 air defense systems on combat duty in the near future as part of the integrated regional air defense network with Russia, the commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces said Wednesday.
- Kazakh Minister Says Possible Syria Link In Aqtobe Attacks RFE/RL 14 Jun 2016 -- Kazakhstan's top law enforcement official says authorities believe that suspects in deadly June 5 attacks in the northwestern city of Aqtobe were instructed or inspired by a militant Islamist leader based in Syria.
- Kazakh forces gun down five terrorists in Aktobe Press TV 10 Jun 2016 -- Security forces in Kazakhstan have killed five "terrorists" suspected of being behind recent fatal shooting attacks in the northwestern city of Aktobe.
- Kazakh Security Forces Kill Five Suspected Militants In Aqtobe RFE/RL 10 Jun 2016 -- Kazakh security forces have killed five suspected militants in Aqtobe, the northwestern city near the Russian border where dozens of gunmen carried out deadly attacks on June 5.
- Nazarbaev: Aqtobe Attacks Orchestrated From Abroad RFE/RL 08 Jun 2016 -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has claimed that the attackers who carried out the recent attacks that rocked the northwestern city of Aqtobe "received instructions from abroad," and suggested that suspects will face the death penalty.
- Kazakh Authorities Still Chasing Suspects In Aqtobe Attacks RFE/RL 07 Jun 2016 -- Kazakh authorities are still searching for at least six surviving suspects after deadly weekend attacks in western Kazakhstan that left 19 people dead and dozens more injured.
- Kazakh 'Counterterror Operation' Continues After Deadly Attacks In Aqtobe RFE/RL 06 Jun 2016 -- Authorities in northwestern Kazakhstan are enforcing closures and asking residents to remain home as security operations continue following deadly attacks that spilled into the streets.
- Kazakhstan Cracks Down On Activists Ahead Of Land-Law Protests RFE/RL 18 May 2016 -- Kazakh authorities have intensified a crackdown on activists ahead of planned nationwide protests on May 21 against controversial new legislation on the privatization of agricultural land.
- Kazakh Police Preempt Land Protests With Arrests RFE/RL 07 May 2016 -- Kazakh police have arrested about two dozen people in Almaty in an apparent effort to preempt new protests urging the government not to pursue large-scale farmland privatization.
- Kazakh President Postpones Land Privatizations Until 2017 RFE/RL 05 May 2016 -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has postponed a controversial plan to privatize state-owned agricultural land, as ministries tied to the plan were rocked by resignations and reprimands.
- Central Asian Land And China RFE/RL 02 May 2016 -- One topic guaranteed to inflame passions in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan is land and China. China has taken land from Central Asia and farmers from China are already working rented fields in Central Asia and that has not sat well with locals.
- Nazarbaev Warns Of Ukraine-Style Turmoil As Kazakh Land Protests Spread RFE/RL 01 May 2016 -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has evoked the Ukraine conflict as protests continued over the Central Asian government's decision to privatize large tracts of state-owned agricultural land.
- Land Sales Unearth Kazakhstan's Opposition RFE/RL 28 Apr 2016 -- The crowd parts as the elderly woman in the conservative beige overcoat and white head scarf makes her way to the front, demanding to be heard.
- Kazakh Ruling Party Wins Most Seats In Parliament RFE/RL 22 Mar 2016 -- Kazakhstan's election authorities say President Nursultan Nazarbaev's Nur Otan party will receive 84 seats in the lower house of parliament following elections on March 20.
- Kazakhstan elections efficiently organized, some progress, still considerable way to go to meet OSCE election commitments, international observers say OSCE 21 Mar 2016 -- The 20 March early parliamentary elections were efficiently organized, with some progress noted, but they indicated that Kazakhstan still has a considerable way to go in meeting its OSCE commitments for democratic elections, international observers concluded in a preliminary statement
- Kazakh ruling party 'secures victory' in parliament vote: Early results Press TV 21 Mar 2016 -- Kazakhstan's ruling Nur Otan party has claimed victory in early parliamentary polls after millions of people took to polling stations across the country, preliminary results show.
- Exit Polls: Kazakh President's Party Won 82 Percent RFE/RL 20 Mar 2016 -- Exit polls from Kazakhstan's parliamentary elections suggest President Nursultan Nazarbaev's ruling party has won 82 percent of the vote.
- U.S. Dismisses Defamation Lawsuit Linked To Kazakh Family Feud RFE/RL 18 Feb 2016 -- A U.S. federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit brought by a close business associate of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev's former son-in-law, who was found dead in an Austrian jail cell last year.
- In Central Asia, The Bad Times Have Arrived RFE/RL 30 Jan 2016 -- The writing has been on the wall for Central Asia for months now - an economic crisis was coming to Central Asia and there was no way of avoiding it. There were unfortunately all too few ideas about how to mitigate it.
- Amid Economic Woes, Nazarbaev Tells Kazakhs To Take 'Deep Breath Like Yogis' RFE/RL 29 Jan 2016 -- What to do when your cash cow is stumbling and life is giving you outrageously priced lemons? Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, for one, believes it's time to 'pause, take a deep breath like yogis' and forget about it.
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