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  kazakhstan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world by area, but its deserts make it only the 57th country in population.
In 1997 the capital of Kazakhstan moved from the southern city of Almaty to Akmolinsk (Akmola), later renamed to Astana, a city closer to the geographic center of the country.
Although Kazakhstan is considered to have made greater progress in the field of democratic reforms, compared to the other Central Asian countries, the situation is far from perfect and international and non-governmental human rights organizations often point to frequent violations of human rights by state officials.
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 Kazakhstan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kazakhstan is divided into 14 provinces (oblystar) and the two municipal districts of Almaty and Astana.
Kazakhstan has stable relationships with all of its neighbors and is a member of the United Nations, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and North Atlantic Cooperation Council.
Kazakhstan is also a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization along with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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 Kazakhstan biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан, Qazaqstan; Russian: Казахстан, Kazakhstán), also spelled Kazakstan, is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Asia and a former republic of the now extinct USSR.
Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world by area, but its semi-deserts (steppe) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 persons per sq km (16 per sq mi).
Interestingly, the ambassador from Kazakhstan to the United Kingdom was insulted by the character claiming it was far from an authentic representation of Kazakhstan.
kazakhstan.biography.ms   (830 words)

  
 Gladney Center for Adoption - International - Kazakhstan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kazakhstan, a country four times the size of Texas, is large enough to provide a lifetime of joy.
In Kazakhstan, children are available for adoption typically as a result of abandonment at the hospital at birth.
Kazakhstan is an ethnically diverse republic that is roughly the size of Western Europe.
www.adoptionsbygladney.org /html/adopt/international/a_kaz.htm   (444 words)

  
 Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan was a republic of the now extinct Soviet Union and is now a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Kazakhstan's 2003 oil exports were valued at more than $7 billion, representing 65% of overall exports and 24% of GDP.
Kazakhstan is a bilingual country: the Kazakh language, spoken by 64.4% of the population, has the status of the "state" language, while Russian is declared the "official" language, and is used routinely in business.
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 Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan's tourist facilities are not highly developed; the availability of goods and services is better than in most neighboring countries, but not up to the standards found in North America and Western Europe.
Travelers transiting through Kazakhstan are reminded to check that their visas allow for a sufficient number of entries to cover each transit trip and to check the length of validity of the visa.
Kazakhstan, especially in the mountainous southeast region, is an earthquake-prone country.
travel.state.gov /travel/kazakhstan.html   (3295 words)

  
 KAZAKHSTAN
Kazakhstan attaches great importance to the initiative of the five countries of the Central Asian region to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia and intends to continue its constructive participation in its implementation.
Kazakhstan has worked and will continue to work to improve the transit capacity of the countries of the Central Asian region, in particular within the framework of the international organizations.
Kazakhstan stands for the strengthening of the central role and authority of the United Nations in the efforts to ensure global stability and to build equitable relations between States and peoples based on mutual respect and universal values.
www.un.org /webcast/ga/56/statements/011115kazakhstanE.htm   (1288 words)

  
 Oil & Energy Sector in Kazakhstan
The first well in Kazakhstan was drilled by a Westerner, the British developer Alfred Nobel in 1899, and partnership with the West has been central to energy resource development in Kazakhstan ever since.
Transportation Routes: Kazakhstan is committed to the development of multiple oil export routes, in order to support its potential oil reserves of 100-110 billion barrels.
Kazakhstan "politically supports" the BTC route, and proponents of the BTC pipeline believe that the likely absence of routes through both Iran and China will probably make this the most commercially and politically viable route for vast reserves of Kashagan oil.
home.btconnect.com /Artur/THRK/oil.htm   (766 words)

  
 FANTASIA -> Kazakhstan -> Travel basics -> Transportation
Kazakhstan is served by a reasonable road network, connecting all the towns and regional centres.
All major cities of Kazakhstan are served by taxis, buses and sometimes trolleybuses and trams, Public transport is cheap and generally reliable.
Public transportation (mini-buses and trolleybuses) usually runs from 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning till 9:00 or 9:30 at night.
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 Kazakhstan - location visa regime local currency language religion relief climate transportation
Kazakhstan, Kazakstan, Kazachstan, Kazahstan - these are the many names of one peaceful and lovely country in the Central Asia.
Kazakhstan is located in the very center of the Eurasian continent.
Kazakhstan is a unique country with respect to its topography: the scenery changes from high snowy mountains to steppes, semi deserts, and deserts.
www.almata.kz /discover/kazakhstan/index.php   (406 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, the largest of the former Soviet republics in territory, excluding Russia, possesses enormous fossil fuel reserves as well as plentiful supplies of other minerals and metals.
Kazakhstan's industrial sector rests on the extraction and processing of these natural resources and also on a growing machine-building sector specializing in construction equipment, tractors, agricultural machinery, and some defense items.
Kazakhstan enjoyed double-digit growth in 2000-01 - and a solid 9.5% in 2002 - thanks largely to its booming energy sector, but also to economic reform, good harvests, and foreign investment.
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 Kazakhstan - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Russia entered into an agreement whereby Russia would lease for a period of 20 years an area of 6,000 sq km enclosing the Bayqongyr (Baykonur) space launch facilities and the city of Bayqongyr (formerly Leninsk).
Kazakhstan has identified two major ecological disasters within its borders-- the shrinking of the Aral Sea and
Kazakhstan possesses the Soviet equivalent to the United States' Cape Canaveral, where they have launched their version of the space shuttle and the well-known space station
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 Kazakhstan Transportation - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
Overall transportation volume probably peaked in the late Soviet period, when enormous inefficiencies added time and distance to all types of movement.
In 1993 Kazakstan counted about 400,000 road vehicles for freight transport, many of which were pieces of farm equipment.
Available tractors and trailers are mostly small and in poor condition; the shortage of spare parts and the lack of a domestic truck-manufacturing industry hinder long-distance haulage.
www.photius.com /countries/kazakhstan/economy/kazakhstan_economy_transportation.html   (876 words)

  
 Kazakhstan - Construction - industrial
Kazakhstan produced about 42 million tons of oil and gas condensate in 2002, with expected crude output to double by 2010, as new Caspian fields come into production.
Present services include providing transportation and freight services within Kazakhstan and transportation and freight services within the CIS (primarily to Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan) and foreign countries(primarily Western Europe through German freight forwarding).
Kazakhstan produced about 48 million tons of oil and gas condensate in 2002, with expected crude output to double by 2010, as new Caspian fields come into production.
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 Mormon News 01Mar02: Kazakhstan Benefits from Mormon Kindness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A few weeks ago, the Kazakhstan womens hockey team travelled 6,000 miles to Salt Lake City to compete in the XIX Winter Olympic Games and developed a lasting friendship with their new found friends in Utah.
The Kazakhstan women's hockey team attended the games on a shoestring budget but it didn't take long for those around them to notice and find a way to help.
Children drew Valentine cards for the players and while the team was loosing their second consecutive game by the score of 7-0, the volunteers were putting the cards along with gifts on the Kazakhstan's team bus.
www.mormonstoday.com /020301/S4KazakHocky01.US.UT.Prov.shtml   (648 words)

  
 Transportation Of Kazakhstan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/kazakhstan_country_transportation.shtml   (293 words)

  
 RIGZONE - Technip Creates New Engineering Company in Kazakhstan
TECHNIP KAZAKHSTAN intends to become a major player in the fast growing oil and gas business in Kazakhstan, notably in relation to the development of the huge fields of Tenguiz, Karachaganak and Kashagan.
It is also ready to participate in the supply of the main oil and gas projects western Kazakhstan, in particular services and construction projects concerning crude and gas cross-country pipelines in the country.
Transport of Oil and Gas which groups state pipeline operators KazTransOil, KazTransGas and KazStroyServices was recently created to protect the interests and to maintain the unified policy in oil and gas transportation of Kazakhstan.
www.rigzone.com /news/article.asp?a_id=1728   (258 words)

  
 Map of Kazakhstan: Relief and Transportation
Kazakhstan is a large country, mainly covered by steppes and deserts.
Railroads are a good transportation method over such long distances and in the communistic time many railroads were built.
Since the division of the Soviet Union in independent states, the problem appeared that those railroads cross many borders, because when built, the engineers didn't take the sub-republic borders into account.
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 VirtualTourist.com - Kazakhstan Tips - Pictures, Tips and Reviews
The problem with traveling to and from Kazakhstan, especially from Europe, is that most flights arrive around midnight or later, and depart at about 3:00 a.m.
Transportation: Tickets for the Moscow-Almaty flight are sold out long in advance.
Astana, a new capital of Kazakhstan is located in the region.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Kazakhstan/Transportation-Kazakhstan-BR-1.html   (1344 words)

  
 Kazakhstan - Bus Transportation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Kazakhstan hikes oil transportation fee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
30-03-00 Kazakhstan state oil transportation company Kaztransoil announced it would boost its transportation tariff for exported oil to $ 15 per ton per 1,000 km from the current $ 9 from Apr 1.
He also said Kaztransoil would increase transportation tariffs for local pipelines by an average 58 %.
Kaztransoil last increased its export transport tariff Jul 1, 1999 to $ 9 from $ 7.13.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnc01968.htm   (109 words)

  
 About Kazakhstan - Location, Flag, Map, Weather, Transportation
There are 314 airports in Kazakhstan, 67 of which are paved.
There are 82,980 Km of highways in Kazakhstan.
There are 4,000 Km of waterways in Kazakhstan.
phpclasses.mirrors.php-homepage.de /browse/country/kz   (93 words)

  
 Kazakhstan - Water Transportation
Uralsk Shipbuilding Plant is 100% private company operating in West Kazakhstan Oblast.
The company is seeking for an American partner to establish a joint venture in order to develop and co-finance further diversification of its activities, improve its manufacturing facilities, and bring in new technologies in the shipbuilding and ship repairing processes.
There is a huge potential for small size (compact)shippings, fishing and transportation vessels due to increase of oil production at the Caspian side.
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 RosBusinessConsulting - News Online
Some 28.6bn cubic meters of gas from Kazakhstan were transported through Russia in the first quarter of 2004, which was 10.7 percent higher than in the corresponding period of last year, the press service of the Kazakhstani government reported.
The amount of Kazakhstani gas exports was 1.94bn cubic meters in the first three months of 2004, which was 70.9 percent more than in the period from January to March 2003.
The volume of gas reserves in underground gas storage facilities in Kazakhstan was 666.7m cubic meters on April 1, 2004.
www.rbcnews.com /free/20040505113231.shtml   (140 words)

  
 Current open job for Sulphur Transportation & Marketing Advisor at AGIP KCO
For AGIP KCO we are looking for a Sulphur Transportation and Marketing Advisor.
The Sulphur Transportation and Marketing Advisor shall investigate and develop all the activities related to sulphur transportation and marketing.
· Monitoring, collection and upgrade of information related to the regulatory framework regarding sulphur transportation in Kazakhstan, Russia, other FSU countries and China.
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Akhmatov used his internship to learn more about the products offered to farmers by his hosts, which in turn allowed him to more effectively market and sell their products in Kazakhstan.
Talgat Abylgazin, from the SABIT Oil Terminals program in 2003, was appointed Deputy Minister of Transportation in Kazakhstan.
As the Deputy Minister, he will be supervising the construction of three new sea ports on the Kazakh shore of the Caspian Sea.
www.mac.doc.gov /sabit/results/central_asia.html   (229 words)

  
 Republic of Kazakhstan - Qazaqstan
Current issues include: developing a cohesive national identity; expanding the development of the country's vast energy resources and exporting them to world markets; and continuing to strengthen relations with neighboring states and other foreign powers.
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UN
Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/kazakhstan.htm   (280 words)

  
 Kazakhstan - Transportation
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Kazakhstan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The area was conquered by Russia in the 18th century and Kazakhstan became a Soviet Republic in 1936.
landlocked; Russia leases approximately 6,000 sq km of territory enclosing the Baykonur Cosmodrome; in January 2004, Kazakhstan and Russia extended the lease to 2050
It also has a large agricultural sector featuring livestock and grain.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/kz.html   (1289 words)

  
 Gazprom Wants a Share in Kazakh Gas Transportation System - MONEY - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In the first six months of this year Gazprom transported 20 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas and more than 2 billion of Uzbek gas through Kazakh territory.
The gas transportation network of Kazakhstan includes 10,000 kilometers (6,250 miles) of pipelines with an annual transportation capacity of 190 billion cubic meters of gas.
The network is controlled by KazTransGas, which is fully owned by the government.
www.mosnews.com /money/2004/07/05/gazpromkazakh.shtml   (726 words)

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