Astana. February 6. KazTAG - Kazakhstani subsoil users will allocate about $1 bln annually for scientific researches, said Yerbol Suleimenov, deputy chair of the committee for science of the Ministry of Education and Science.
"On the performance of the regulations stated in the message of Kazakhstani President to people, the budget for scientific researches will be increased, investments from the side of private sector for scientific developments will be stimulated," he said in the interview placed at the PM's site.
He reminded 27 bln tenge were allocated in 2011 and 42 bln tenge for science development in Kazakhstan.
"Also at least 1% of cumulative profit of the national companies- subsoil users will be annually allocated for local scientific...
Astana. February 3. KazTAG - The vice prime minister, Erbol Orynbaev instructed Ministry of Health to create special commissions in regions of Kazakhstan, where citizens can file complaints about poor quality medical care. "I instruct to create the commission, up to the district level, on the basis of control committee (Ministry of Health committee on quality control of medical services - KazTAG). Engage there the local authorities, NGOs, social leaders. And on a daily basis work with the population", E. Orynbaev said at the Ministry of Health administration meeting on Friday. Vice prime minister instructed to place contacts of commissions in mass media and on Internet, so people will be able to contact and file...
"Information system "Online data collection”, which we introduced last year, allows respondents to fill in the statistical forms online at the agency's website using a digital signature. At the present time, respondents may deliver two online statistical reports, from April this year they will be able to fill in 65 statistical forms online", reads the report of the head of the Statistics Agency announced on Thursday. Moreover, according to his information, the implementation of all...
Astana. January 27. KazTAG - Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev has ordered the government and akims of the regions to launch new employment program implementation.
"I order the government and akims to start this scaled program. You understand what I mean. To provide micro-credits in the rural areas, to give employment to people in the cities, to fund people's education and employ them," he said.
He reminded that employment program was implemented in pilot regime in 2011 and covered 60 000 people. "Now we should proceed to implementation of this important program. We must employ 1.5 mln of people by 2020," he said.
Almaty. January 25. KazTAG - International human rights organization Freedom House demanded to release immediately detained opposition activists who were arrested yesterday. They are Vladimir Kozlov, Serik Sapargali and chief editor of Vzglyad newspaper Igor Vinyavskiy.
«Freedom House condemns the arrests of opposition activists and calls upon their immediate release", reads statement released on Wednesday.
Freedom House also noted that Kazakhstani government imposes restrictions on freedom of association and assembly in Kazakhstan, moreover Kazakhstani mass media remain subject to legal restrictions.
"Kazakhstan as a former chair of the OSCE must live up to its promises to the international community that it will advance democracy and human...
Almaty. January 23. KazTAG -There are no social tensions in Kazakhstan, Prime-Minister Karim Masimov believes.
"There are social tensions in Zhanaozen, but not in the whole country", - Massimov said in interview published on the Russian Internet site "Gazeta.ru" on Monday.
"We do not need to sugar up reality. This is a real situation"- he stressed.
At the same time, prime-minister confessed that "Zhanaozen is a very sore subject for the government," noting that "there are underlying causes for this situation."
"The corruption issue unambiguously intervened in Zhanaozen. Despite the fact that we are fighting hard with corruption the situation took place not only in Zhanaozen but in the economy of the oil...
Almaty. January 23. KazTAG -There are no social tensions in Kazakhstan, Prime-Minister Karim Masimov believes.
"There are social tensions in Zhanaozen, but not in the whole country", - Massimov said in interview published on the Russian Internet site "Gazeta.ru" on Monday.
"We do not need to sugar up reality. This is a real situation"- he stressed.
At the same time, prime-minister confessed that "Zhanaozen is a very sore subject for the government," noting that "there are underlying causes for this situation."
"The corruption issue unambiguously intervened in Zhanaozen. Despite the fact that we are fighting hard with corruption the situation took place not only in Zhanaozen but in the economy of the...
Astana. January 23. KazTAG – Mukhtar Kul-Mukhammed had been appointed as a new Minister of Culture and Information, informed source reported.
“Former Minister of Culture (Mukhtar Kul-Mukhammed - KazTAG) will be in charge of new reorganized ministry (Ministry of Culture and Information - KazTAG). It is expected that there will be changes in the ministry's structure, the informed source said on Monday.
For information, Kazakhstani President’s decree of January 20 established transfer of informational block from the abrogated Ministry of Information and Communications to the Ministry of Culture.
Astana. January 16. KazTAG - According to the preliminary results elections attendance made up 75.07, said Kuandyk Turgankulov, chair of Central Electoral Commission,
"6.90 mln people voted in the republic or 75.07% of the total number of voters included in the lists," he said.
According to CEC, the total number of voters in Kazakhstan makes up 9 328 805 people.
Totally 7 parties took part in the elections: Adilet, AkZhol, Auyl, CNPK, Nur Otan, OSDP, Patriots' Party. 8726 candidates pretended on seats in Maslikhats.
Astana. January 12. KazTAG - Zhanaozen riots showed incompetence of officials, daughter of President Nazarbayev thinks.
“As for me all this story clearly shows incompetence of officials who let things slide. They didn’t take into account local key elements, local unique features, and local complicated processes of internal and external migration. Situation didn’t appeared abruptly and I think that the situation was heating up for long time. And unfortunately as a result we have got riots and bloodshed. This is the most awful that could be happened.” D. Nazarbayeva said during an online conference on portal zakon.kz on Thursday.
She thinks that reason of this tragedy is much deeper that it can be appeared at first sight. And it is more...