Tag: Kazakhstan

China’s Xi praises ‘strong measures’ against protesters in Kazakhstan: state media

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s President Xi Jinping on Friday praised the Kazakhstan government’s deadly crackdown on protesters as “highly responsible” in a message to Kazakh leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, state media reported. “You decisively took strong measures at critical moments and quickly calmed down the situation, showing your position of responsibility and sense of duty as a politician, and of being highly responsible for your country and your people,” Xi told Tokayev in the message, […]

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More than 1,000 wounded in Kazakhstan unrest: ministry

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — More than 1,000 people have been wounded in days of mounting unrest in Kazakhstan, the health ministry said Thursday. “More than 1,000 people were wounded following riots in different regions of Kazakhstan, nearly 400 among them were hospitalised and 62 people are in intensive care,” deputy health minister Azhar Guiniyat said on Khabar-24 television, according to Russian news agencies Interfax and TASS. © Agence France-Presse

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‘Dozens’ of protesters killed in Kazakhstan unrest

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AFP) – Police in Kazakhstan killed “dozens” of protesters who tried to storm administrative buildings overnight in the country’s biggest city Almaty, police told local media on Thursday. “Last night, extremist forces tried to assault administrative buildings, the Almaty city police department, as well as local police commissariats,” police spokesman Saltanat Azirbek was quoted as saying by Interfax-Kazakhstan, TASS and Ria Novosti news agencies. “Dozens of assailants were eliminated,” he said, adding that police […]

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Russia’s cosmos town, an isolated relic of Soviet glory

by Nikolay KORZHOV Agence France-Presse BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP) – Malik Mutaliyev walks by an abandoned amusement park in wintry Baikonur, a secretive town in Kazakhstan’s inhospitable steppe that appeared alongside the eponymous Baikonur Cosmodrome where the Soviet Union’s space programme rose to glory. “Our town has lived through a lot: Perestroika, the fall of the Soviet Union, electricity shortages. We’ve been through it all,” says the 67-year-old former chief architect of Baikonur. The settlement located […]

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UNESCO announces 20 new biospheres in 21 countries

ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) – UNESCO on Wednesday added 20 new sites in 21 countries to its global network of biosphere reserves, the UN agency’s designation for specially protected regions. New biosphere reserves are designated each year to promote sustainable development, protect terrestrial, marine and coastal ecosystems and encourage conservation. For the first time, Lesotho, Libya and Saudi Arabia joined the list. In Lesotho, the Matseng Biosphere Reserve covers an area of 112,033 hectares in the northern […]

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Kazakhstan rolls out national coronavirus vaccine

NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AFP) — Kazakhstan on Monday rolled out its homegrown coronavirus vaccine, with the Central Asian country’s health minister receiving the jab on live television. QazCovid-in, also known as QazVac, is a two-shot vaccine that is currently in third stage trials. The state broadcaster Khabar said that 50,000 doses of the vaccine developed by the state-backed Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems have been distributed across the vast oil-rich country. Health Minister Alexei Tsoi told […]

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Astronauts land back on Earth transformed by pandemic

  by Christopher RICKLETON Agence France Presse Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on Friday made a safe return from the International Space Station to find a “different planet,” transformed by the coronavirus pandemic. Andrew Morgan, Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka touched down in central Kazakhstan at 0516 GMT Friday in the first returning mission since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March. Morgan had been on the ISS since […]

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Kazakhstan locks down two biggest cities due to virus

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AFP) — Kazakhstan’s two main cities of Almaty and Nur-Sultan went into lockdown on Thursday to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The army and police blocked roads leading into Almaty — the oil-rich Central Asian country’s usually bustling business hub — using armored vehicles, barriers and concrete blocks. Troops and police manned checkpoints as medics checked the temperatures of car passengers and recorded their names. The Kazakh authorities plan to block entry and exit […]

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No Filipino on board plane that crashed in Kazakhstan – PHL embassy in Russia

(Eagle News)-No Filipino was on board the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan last Friday. Philippine Ambassador to Russia Carlos Sorreta, who has jurisdiction over Kazakhstan, said it was the emergency committee of the Ministry of Interior of that country that gave the information about  Bek Air Flight Number Z92100. At least 14 people died after the plane “fell off the radar” right after it took off from Almaty airport. “We would like to express our deepest […]

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Plane crashes into house in Kazakhstan killing 14

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AFP) — At least 14 people died Friday when a passenger plane carrying 100 people crashed into a house shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan’s largest city, authorities said. The Bek Air plane “fell off the radar” minutes after it took off from Almaty airport at 7.05 am (01:05 GMT) on its way to the capital, Nur-Sultan, the airport authority said in a statement. “There are 14 dead at the (crash) site,” the city […]

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DFA: Filipina injured in multiple vehicle collision in Kazakhstan

(Eagle News) — A Filipina was injured in a collision involving multiple vehicles in Kazakhstan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday, March 27. Ambassador to Russia Carlos Sorreta told the DFA main office it was Jennifer Francisco Lavapiez herself who informed the embassy through its Facebook page that she had been injured in Tuesday’s incident involving three buses, two passenger cars and an ambulance that left two persons dead and 27 people injured. […]

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Gilas Pilipinas secures spot for 2019 FIBA World Cup with big win vs Kazakhstan

  (Eagle News) — Gilas Pilipinas got a slot to play in the 2019 FIBA World Cup after its rousing win against Kazakhstan on Sunday night, 93-75. The game played at the Republican Velodrome in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan showed a revitalized Philippine team that avenged their loss the last time that they played against Kazakhstan in November last year. On Sunday night Gilas Pilipinas’ Andray Blatche gave Gilas 41 points and 13 rebounds, prevailing […]

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