Kazakhstan
Japanese-Kazakh nuclear energy cooperation: a partnership for the future
August 04, 2010By Roman Muzalevsky Japan, the world’s third largest producer of nuclear energy after the US and France, plans to launch a feasibility study this month to explore the possibility of importing uranium from Kazakhstan through Russia’s Far East...
China, EU Wait In The Wings For Access To Central Asia
August 03, 2009By Bruce Pannier Although Russia and the United States are most often mentioned as the contestants of the "new Great Game" that began after the fall of the Soviet Union, other players have also entered the arena. Central Asia, possessing...
Tensions surface during Eurasian economic bloc summit in Kazakhstan
April 20, 2007Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov opened a one-day summit meeting in Astana on April 18 of the Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec), according to Interfax and AKIpress. The meeting, the 18th session of the Eurasec intergovernmental council, was attended...
Russia Seeking Control of Kazakhstan's Oil, Expert Says
March 28, 2007Western policy makers should not assume that Kazakhstan's current "multi-vector" policy of balancing foreign interests in the country's oil sector will continue, according to an expert on the region's oil supplies. Kimberly Marten, Chair of...