Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbaev disclosed the figures while meeting with Azerbaijani officials, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. Azerbaijan Airlines said 67 people were on ...

During a one-and-a-half-minute conversation in September 2021, she said “Take our Petropavlovsk for your own, like Crimea, the North Kazakhstan region." Her interlocutor immediately posted the ...

Local authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, said Lenin’s removal was for purely aesthetic reasons; they would ...

After an Azerbaijan Airlines jet crashed in Kazakhstan, speculation mounted about why the plane went down and whether possible Russian air defense action may have played a role.

Russian is an official language and widely spoken in Kazakhstan, making it easier for the emigres to live and work there. Ethnic Russians make up some 16 percent of Kazakhstan's 19 million population.

These locals are half-Ukrainian, half-Russian: A dual heritage with a unique pain as the war rapidly escalates Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan: Russian nuclear energy giant Rosatom will lead the construction of the first atomic power plant in Kazakhstan, the world's top uranium producer, the Central Asian country's ...

Grain shipments through Kazakhstan’s Aktau and Kuryk ports to Iran surged 12-fold in the first half of 2025. Shipments to the ...

Plane crash in Kazakhstan kills half the people aboard. Published: Dec. 25, 2024, 7:59 a.m. ... Russia has been blamed in the past for jamming GPS transmissions in the wider region.

WUSA-TV Washington, D.C. Posted: December 25, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025 An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people on board crashed Wednesday in western Kazakhstan killing 38 people and ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...