Use of electronic voting and upholding existing election standards focus of OSCE expert meeting

20.09.2010

An expert meeting on the use of electronic voting in OSCE participating States - as well as the lessons learned from countries that have moved away from such systems - started in Vienna today, APA reports quoting official web-page of OSCE. 1600 

Turkmen and Texan oilmen

20.09.2010

Taking a leaf out of the geopolitical strategy book of neighbouring Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan appears from its latest moves to be following a similar oil and gas development policy that's geared toward balancing the competing claims of Asia, Russia and the West. 3308 

N.D. ag export business hoping for rebound after economic blow

20.09.2010

A representative for the North Dakota Trade Office, Sova is tasked with matching farm equipment buyers with North Dakota sellers. Two thousand miles east in Kazakhstan, Yermek Umarzakov, another NDTO representative, does the same thing. 1560 

As Moscow mulls ban extension, Astana seeks wheat advantage

20.09.2010

With the ongoing trouble for Russian Prime Minister Vladimer Putin’s country’s wheat harvest, the Kazakhstan agriculture ministry said Friday they were planning to export as much as 8 million tons of wheat this year. 1465 

China: Twenty-First Century Energy Superpower

20.09.2010

By becoming the world’s leading energy consumer, China will also become an ever more dominant international actor and so set the pace in shaping our global future, notes Michael Klare. 4063