28.07.2010
On July 16-17, in Almaty, an informal meeting of 56 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) countries’ foreign affairs ministers decided to hold a summit of the organization this year in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. 3423
26.07.2010
This summer's Kyrgyz-Uzbek clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan presented the gravest threat to Central Asian security since the Tajik civil war of the 1990s. Reportedly, about 3,000 people died and more than 300,000 were displaced in the violence. 2432
How do you change perceptions of a little known country formed largely by a hugely popular movie that ridiculed it? For Kazakhstan, part of the answer is to win professional cycling's biggest prize, the Tour de France. 2199
23.07.2010
The trip last week by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to China was an acknowledgement of Asia’s rising role in world affairs, and of the growing difficulties in Berlin’s relations with its traditional allies, the US and Western Europe. 2478
Nationalist press interpretations of the recent violence in southern Kyrgyzstan are adding to tensions throughout the country. Coupled with the refusal of both Kyrgyz and Uzbeks to assess their hate, these reports make peace seem increasingly elusive. 2247
Recent years have witnessed the rise of irregular but frequently intensive opposition to U.S. global preeminence by Russia and China. In their own ways, and in pursuit of their own interests, each of these authoritarian governments has established an informal alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran. 3382
20.07.2010
Central Asia arrived at a turning point last weekend far removed from the history of Genghis Khan riding out to conquer the world, as it sought peacekeepers from Europe. Russia, which has provided security to the region for the past century and more is stepping aside - unable or unwilling, and possibly incapable of performing that role anymore. 1951
16.07.2010
When Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, visited Washington this past spring to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, he was hoping to go home with a valuable trophy: President Obama's firm commitment to attend a high-level summit in Almaty, the Kazakh capital, sometime this year. 2267
15.07.2010
Tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan has risen significantly over the past month despite a renewed international push for a resolution to the Karabakh conflict. 2740
India is faring as well in terms of GDP growth and has an open economy too. Why then is China the world's darling? 2498
14.07.2010
On July 5 at the Eurasian Economic Community’s Interstate Council in Astana, Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan agreed to form a Customs Union that came into effect the next day. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan may join at some point in the future. 2158
13.07.2010
As the dust settles over the Fergana Valley, Russian foreign policy analysts in Western Europe and the United States are wallowing in a state of bewilderment. Despite then-acting President Roza Otunbayeva's call for Russian involvement during the ethnic riots in southern Kyrgyzstan, Moscow rejected any plans to deploy troops into the fray. 2007
As the United States prepares to wind down its shuttle program, the race for who can become the most prominent space power is on. 1447
12.07.2010
Halfway through Kazakhstan’s chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, State Secretary and Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev talked to New Europe correspondent Kulpash Konyrova about the situation in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan as well as the challenges the organization is facing. 1756
09.07.2010
To transfer the Kyrgyz capital from Bishkek to Osh, ostensibly to strengthen security in the country, is impossible and ineffective, experts said. 1444
08.07.2010
The unintended consequences of non-proliferation have been horrendous. The torpedo that a North Korean submarine used to sink the South Korean warship Cheonan killed 46 innocent South Korean sailors. But it also just as surely killed the American policy, pursued for decades, for dealing with North Korea. 1565
02.07.2010
News.Az interviews Kanat Saudabayev, OSCE chairman-in-office, State Secretary and Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan. 3462
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