US nurtures ties with Kazakhstan
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US President George W Bush  holds talks with the Kazakh president, boosting ties with the oil-producing nation.
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The United States promised Kazakhstan on  Friday to help it bring its armed forces up to NATO standards  in a new military cooperation pact certain to irritate Russia,  Kazakhstan's former Soviet overlord.
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Russia's Vladimir Putin sends a message of support  to George W Bush after his re-election as US President.
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The United States on Friday echoed  European concerns that Kazakhstan's parliamentary election may  be unfair because authorities and media favor the parties of  the president and his daughter.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin took a swipe at the US military presence in central Asia, while defending a regional security group that some critics have seen as a rival to NATO.
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Kazakhstan has learned at the knee of its neighbor, as Western oil companies are discovering.
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Analysts say Russiaâs pipeline deal with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan could strengthen its monopoly on Central Asiaâs energy exports.
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TENGIZ, Kazakhstan  - The Tengiz oilfield in   Kazakhstan is a blend of Western corporate culture and old   Soviet ways -- even through it's been years since U.S. oil firm   Chevron came to develop it.
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The State Department will work with public and private groups to expand America's cultural exchanges abroad in an effort to strengthen the United States' international ties.
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Visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said here on Tuesday that the United States will further enhance its relations with Pakistan.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says the United States remains a key partner and praised US President George Bush. But, the Russian leader also said he would like to know whether the United
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Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to the US for talks with President Bush aimed at easing tense ties.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell convened Wednesday in New York with his counterparts from Russia, the European Union and the United Nations making up the informal Quartet on the Middle East.
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A Kazakhstan ambassador says his country can see the funny side of film character Borat.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- For years, Rakhat Aliyev and his wife, Dariga Nazarbayeva, were the power couple of Kazakhstan, building empires in media, banking and politics under the protective wing of Papa -- President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelraham Shalgham met here in the highest-level contact between the two countries in decades amid a sharp improvement in ties between Washington and Tripoli.
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday raised the possibility that the United States is trying to âisolateâ Russia from its neighbours among the former Soviet republics amid ongoing tension over elections in Ukraine.