Held up as regional model, Kazakhstan's stability falters
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A political drama is being played out between the president and a son-in-law with presidential aspirations.
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Who needs Borat? Kazakhstan just might. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, whose government initially bristled at a British comedian's portrayal of the country, is using the famous name to his own ends.
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Once a symbol of post-Soviet industrial decay, many are reviving and boosting local economies.
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Moscow -- President Vladimir Putin&#39;s moves to scrap regional elections and reform parliament in the name of fighting terrorism will move Russia closer to authoritarianism without making the country any safer, analysts and liberal politicians say.
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Kazakhstan's ruling party claimed victory Tuesday in parliamentary elections, but the official results were yet to be announced and foreign observers said the ballot fell short of international standards.
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Text of report by Kazakh newspaper Megapolis on 4 September  The level of water in the Shardara reservoir has gone down below the critical level for the first time in many years. Doctors are concerned about the possibility of break-out of infectious diseases in South Kazakhstan Region.
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A global economy was thought to be more stable â but not if everyone is speculating.
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Despite Arafat's flaws, area residents say the leader represented struggle of the state.
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Russia and China, regional powers trying to restore Cold War-size importance to their roles in the world, are having a difficult time leaving the path of authoritarian government, a Freedom House analysis says.
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Rebels have been in control of the northern regions since a failed coup in 2002. Recent unrest has unraveled a 2003 cease-fire between the government and rebels.
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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 group developing a big Kazakhstan field may be reaching an accord with the irate state.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Senior Palestinian officials struggled yesterday to stabilize the financial operations of the Palestinian Authority, as Yasser Arafat lingered at what an envoy termed a &quot;critical juncture between life and death.&quot;
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp ...
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s plan to strengthen his grip on the country by nominating governors and eliminating individual races in State Duma elections appears to contradict only the spirit
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They worry that its quest to topple the Western-backed government will hurt their long-term interests.
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ARANDIS, Namibia -- This sandy little company town, with its tree-lined streets and concrete homes set amid a vast, forbidding desert, had all the signs of terminal decline just a few years back. Both banks closed. The only gas station shut off its pumps. And employable young men, realizing the bleak future of the giant uranium mine that gave Arandis life, began drifting away....