Astana - US Politics

The presence of WorldTour team Astana, with Alexander Vinokourov leading an all-Kazakhstan cast, is set to spice up the fight for the best Asian...

A little more than a year ago, our friend Mike Eldred visited the cheery state of Moldova to monitor their elections, and earlier this month he had...

Kairgeldy Kabyldin, president of Kazakhstan's oil and gas company KazMunaiGas discussed increasing Kazakh energy exports to Europe with Bulgarian...

There must be enough of a market of people driving through the town of Aktobe in Kazakhstan to warrant a write up in the Lonely Planet about the...

British pop star Sting cancelled a concert he was due to give in Kazakhstan's capital Astana on Monday, blaming violations of the human rights of striking oil workers in the ex-Soviet state.Sting said in a statement published on his website ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British singer Sting has canceled a concert in the Kazakh capital Astana scheduled for Monday after human rights group Amnesty International informed the former Police frontman about what it described as a "crackdown" on oil workers there.Several thousand workers ...

What a difference a year and a tsunami make. Western investors have been salivating over the post-Soviet space's energy riches since the 1991...

ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's veteran President Nursultan Nazarbayev is poised to win another five years in charge of his oil-rich Central Asian state after a snap election on Sunday devoid of any challenge to his two decades in power.The echo of ...

The seventh edition of the Asian Winter Games was officially opened on Sunday in Kazakhstan's capital Astana in a spectacular three-hour ceremony staged at the city's indoor football stadium.The event curtain-raising show began with a dramatised performance based on ...

World leaders have reacted with legal threats and laughter to leaked cables about them. Here are a few great gems.. . NICOLAS SARKOZY Called a...

Topic: Astana

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Sting cancels Kazakh concert over oil worker dispute

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