its border regime since Kazakhstan became independent at the end of 1991: on the one hand maintaining an open border regime in respect to trade and other forms of economic activity, and on the other hand keeping control over the border in order to meet a variety of perceived security threats...
Russia Reacts Furiously to Blinken Jibe Over Troops in Kazakhstan More Reuters FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in the briefing room of the State Department in Washington, U.S. January 7, 2022. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo MOSCOW (Reuters...
Tacheng Yongli Trading Co. Ltd., where Liu works as a foreign trade manager, is located in the city of Tacheng, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Bordering Kazakhstan, it was once an important gateway for China to Central Asia and Europe. Ten kilometers away from downtown...
Border - a Journey Around Russia: Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belorussia Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northwest Passage Erika Fatland travels along the seemingly endless Russian border, from North Korea in the Far ...
Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe's third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg. Forteinvest, the Orsk refinery operator, declined to comment. ...
border. By July 1 this year, the customs border between Russia and Kazakhstan will also be cancelled. Less than two months later, the customs union will no longer have customs border, that is, all goods imported from abroad can freely enter the Russian or Belarusian market through Kazakhstan....
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks after signing bilateral documents with his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana, Kazakhstan November 9, 2023. Turar Kazangapov | Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that any internal and external attempts to interfere with th...
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia all opened investigations into the cause of the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243. Dec 29, 2024 Trump calls for "immediate ceasefire" in Ukraine after Zelenskyy meeting President-elect Donald Trump called on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine,...
The Kremlin's press secretary denied that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, discussed what he called a "Russian-Ukrainian settlement" to the war during their meeting in Kazakhstan Thursday. Dmitry Peskov told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that...
The Ural River, Europe's third largest which flows through Russia and Kazakhstan into the Caspian, burst through an embankment dam on Friday, flooding the city of Orsk just south of the Ural Mountains. Downstream, water levels in Orenburg, a city of around 550,000, were rising. ...