The members of the Cabinet of Ministers passed and directed to the Parliament the bill on state regulation and turnover of oil and mineral oil today during the government session, the agency reports.



According to the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Kazakhstan, Sauat Mynbaev, the bill is aimed at realization of the assignments of the head of state regarding stabilization of the prices in the petroleum products market in Kazakhstan. The Energy Minister explained that

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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has held a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel today on the initiative of the German side, the presidential pres service reports.



Angela Merkel congratulated N.Nazarbayev on the beginning of the Kazakhstan's OSCE chairmanship. The Head of the State expressed gratitude for the support that Germany renders to Kazakhstan in is activity at the OSCE chairman post and, in particular, for the support of the Kazakh initiativ

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State Program of Forced Industrial and Innovative Development of Kazakhstan should be implemented as clearly as Road Map-2009. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev noted the importance of well coordinated management of the process of creation of new industrial basis for the development of Kazakhstan. He said it in his annual address to the nation "New Decade - New Economic Growth - New Opportunities of Kazakhstan" and urged to establish a single national management center for force

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"57 projects to the amount of KZT 2.4 trln will be realized in the country within the forced industrial-innovative development program", Kazakh Minister of Transport and Communications Abelgazy Kusainov said Friday at the meeting of the board of the Ministry.



He noted that 6 projects out of 57 to the amount of KZT 1.1 trln were included into the basic industrialization map. These are three projects in the highway sector, two projects in the railway sector and one - in

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Space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station on Friday to begin the voyage back to Earth after a successful mission; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.



At undocking that took place at 7:54 p.m. EST, the shuttle's Orbiter Docking System released its grip on the station's Pressurized Mating Adapter 2, and springs pushed the two vehicles gently apart, NASA said in a press release.



After initial spacecraft separation, Pilot Terry Virts manually flew

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At the international arena Kazakhstan has proved to be a reliable and responsible partner, which achieved significant results in construction of democratic institutions, development of market economy and ensuring regional security in a short period. Chairman of the Kazakh Senate, Vice President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev has announced it delivering a speech at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna on Friday.



The Speaker voiced priorities of the country

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According to non-official point count Kazakhstan ranks the 20th in Olympic Games in Vancouver; Acting Director of the Directorate for Staff National Commands and Sport Reserve Temirlan Nurseitov has informed of it.



"Today according to non-official point count our country ranks the 20th. We share this place with other four commands. We can be upgraded as well. I think it is a good result", - he has said it during the press-conference today in Astana.



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Kazakhstan intends to become the member of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2012, the agency reports citing the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan press service.



According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, supported the intention of Astana to become the member of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2012.



According to the press service, the first national repo

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The participants of the first working meeting of the heads of boundary departments of the Customs Union states taken place in Brest (Belarus) came to the conclusion that the representatives of the frontier services of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus will have to be in the structure of the Customs Union Commission, the agency reports citing ITAR-TASS.



"We have come to a common opinion that the representatives of the frontier services need to be a part of the working commiss

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Kazakh biathlete Elena Khrustaleva has won a silver Olympic medal in the women's 15km individual biathlon race.



Norway's Tora Berger became a champion of the competition, and Belarusian athlete Darya Domracheva got the bronze.



The women's 15km individual biathlon race was held at Whistler Olympic Park with four shootings. It is necessary to note that E.Khrustaleva missed none target and hit all of them (20). She was 20.7 seconds behind T.Berger.

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   The National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna developed the special mechanism of rotation in the regions of Bolashak graduates. The chairman of the board of the fund, Kayrat Kelimbetov, informed during the conference Management of Human Resources, the agency reports.



"The special mechanism of rotation in the regions will be used in regards to the young experts including, trained abroad and under the Bolashak program," K. Kelimbetov informed.



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    The deputies of Majilis of Parliament of Kazakhstan at the plenary session agreed with the amendments brought by the Senate to the bill of Kazakhstan on the amendments and additions to the Law on Natural Monopolies and Regulated Markets, the agency reports.



According to the regulations, the law is considered passed and is being sent to the head of state to be signed into law.



According to the developers of the law - Agencies for Regulation of N

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Kazakhstan conducts effective technology policy aimed at modernizing existing and introducing new information systems and public communication networks as well as developing the market of modern and high quality services.



According to the research conducted by ICT-Marketing, as of the end of 2009 the number of Internet users reached 3.16 mln people or 19.8% of the population of Kazakhstan. As a whole, during the period from December 2008 till December 2009 the total internet au

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Kazakhstan ratified the agreements on Collective Rapid Response Forces (CRRF) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and on the principles of creation of the management system of the CSTO forces, the agency reports citing the president's press service.



According to the press service, the head of state signed the law of Kazakhstan on ratification of the CRRF CSTO agreement.



The President of Kazakhstan also signed the law on ratification of the agr

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Svetlana Malakhova-Shishkina, a skier from the East Kazakhstan oblast, ranked the 10th in 10 km cross-country free skiing  in Vancouver.



Svetlana left behind many renowned skiers. The race was won by Charlotte Kalla from Sweden. The silver medal was won by Estonian Kristina Smigun-Vaehi and the bronze medal was awarded to Norwegian Marit Bjoergen.



Kazakhstani Yelena Kolomina is also among thirty best skiers.

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The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, discussed the questions of development of the Kazakhstan-Russian economic cooperation with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, the agency reports citing the president's press service.

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According to the press service, N. Nazarbayev during his working visit to Moscow held the meeting with V. Putin. During the meeting, the officials discussed the questions of development of the Kazakh

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The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, said at the meeting with the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, that the presidency of Kazakhstan in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will allow raising the organization to the new level, the agency reports citing ITAR-TASS.



"Kazakhstan this year is the chairman in OSCE. I wish you successes in this work. For the first time, the country from the post-Soviet territory he

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The European Space Agency (ESA) informed of readiness of the launch of the most complex satellites to research ice surface of the planet, the agency reports citing information portal UPI.com.



It is planned that CryoSat satellite will be launched on February 25 from the cosmodrome Baikonur and put into orbit at the height of 435 kilometers over the Earth.



"This satellite will be the third satellite of the series of the Earth Explorer satellites launched by

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In 2009 expenses for the education sphere of South Kazakhstan oblast from the budget made up KZT 90.4 bln; the region's akimat (administration) informs. Amount of the finance directed to the education sphere over the last four years increased threefold.



During the year there were opened 61 kindergartens for 4,377 children. The total number of preschool organizations reached 244. as of January 1, 2010 35 new schools were put into commission, including 24 schools - within the fra

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"I would like to wish our sportsmen to hoist the Kazakh flag in honor of their victories oftener", Olympic champion, graduate of the Zhambyl boxing school, Head of the department of physical culture and sport Bakhtiyar Artayev told Kazinform correspondent.



The winner of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens is sure that the buck fever is useful and necessary for sportsmen. "It disciplines a sportsman, makes him do his best", the sportsman said.



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Kazakhstan needs to create a wool purchase network so that foreigners do not buy it for a trifling sum. First Vice Premier of Kazakhstan, Umirzak Shukeev, informed at the meeting with businessmen of Taraz, the agency reports.



"Last year, the Chinese representatives purchase all wool in the regions very cheaply and now our enterprises have nothing to work with," Director of Open Company Factory of Preprocessing of Wool - Taraz, Bolat Momyshev, informed.

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The new ecological norm will be introduced to the Ecological Code of Kazakhstan, the so-called the most perfect technology, which will decrease emissions of the industrial enterprises to the atmosphere. The Minister of the Environment Protection of Kazakhstan, Nurgali Ashimov, informed in the interview to journalists during the round table Climate Change: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow?, the agency reports.

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Employees of Department of Fisheries of Atyrau area contrib

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  Master of sports on biathlon Dias Keneshev will lead the Kazakh Olympic team into the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games as the national flag bearer today, February 12.



Dias is a gold and silver medalist of Summer Biathlon World Championships, a winner of Asian Biathlon Championships and a Kazakhstan Biathlon Cup holder.

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   Today within the visit of First Vice Premier Umirzak Shukeyev to the South Kazakhstan oblast, the region's Akimat and Kazatomprom National Atomic Company JSC have entered into a memorandum of cooperation.



In accordance with the document the Akimat of the oblast will provide broad support in covering the Company's contribution to the region's development in mass media and promote creation of favorable investment climate for realization of its breakthrough projects.

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     First Vice Premier Umirzak Shukeyev said establishment of an industrial zone on the territory of phosphorous plant in Shymkent was a good idea and promised to consider this issue thoroughly.



As is known, the Government's operational group headed by Shukeyev is visiting South Kazakhstan oblast today. The group was created for inspecting the course of realization of the country's forced industrialization program and fulfillment of the President's tasks outline

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    Task Force headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Umirzak Shukeyev will pay working visit to South Kazakhstan region today, the press service of the regional akimat reports.



South Kazakhstan region will be the third region where the Government's Task Force will get acquainted with opportunities for realization of the program of forced industrialization of Kazakhstan, tasks and commissions outlined in the President's Address.



The First Deputy Premier

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By the Decree of the Government as of December 15, 2009 the list of guaranteed free medical assistance was approved, official mass media reports.



The list of guaranteed free medical assistance is published in press.    

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First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Umirzak Shukeyev who pays official visit to Zhambyl region met with heads of investment projects, implemented in the region.



At the session of the main office on control over implementation of the nine investment projects U.Shukeyev was interested in the process of realization of the projects, development prospects, probable trade markets, problems occurring at the enterprises.



The First Deputy Prime Minister charged the

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Kazakhstan reached the next phase of implementation of the Strategic Development Program, which will cover the period from 2010 till 2020. The President's Message "New Decade - New Economic Growth - New Opportunities of Kazakhstan" is devoted to this issue. Kazakh Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to China Ikram Adyrbekov has said it in an interview to a Kazinform correspondent.



According to I.Adyrbekov, the historic significance of the year of 2009 lies in

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The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, discussed with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Republic, Ahmet Davutoglu, the prospects of development of Kazakhstan-Turkish relations in trade and economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres, the agency reports citing the president's press service.

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President, chairman of Council of Forum of Businessmen discussed development of Kazakhstan business



Head of state approved project of

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