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Astana

November 2018

  • Kazakhstan is rich with oil, gas and coal but Nursultan Nazarbayev, its president for life, has committed the country to a dramatic shift from fossil fuels to green energy. Is this huge nation able to realise his vision? 

    The upside
    The new green superpower? Oil giant Kazakhstan tries to wean itself off the black stuff – video

    Kazakhstan is rich with oil, gas and coal but Nursultan Nazarbayev, its president for life, has committed the country to a dramatic shift from fossil fuels to green energy. Is this huge nation able to realise his vision? 

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November 2017

  • A group of Czech tourists dressed in swimsuits made famous by TV and film character Borat in Astana

    Sacha Baron Cohen offers to pay fines of tourists who wore 'Borat' mankinis

  • The Czech tourists in front of the sign in the Kazakh capital.

    Czech tourists dressed in Borat-style mankinis detained in Kazakhstan

October 2017

  • A street scene from Dushanbe

    Secret Stans
    ‘The decline of Russian dominance is striking’: readers respond from the Stans

  • Astana, Kazakhstan

    Secret Stans
    Astana's plan to stay warm in the winter? Build a ring of one million trees

  • Женщина проходит мимо золотой статуи первого президента Туркменистана Сапармурата Ниязова в столице Ашхабад. Фотограф: Валерий Шарифулин / ТАСС

    Secret Stans
    Будущее статусного города? Может ли Алматы отбросить систему контроля

  • A shot of Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, from Hassan Kurbanbaev's 2016 photography series tashkent.DOC. Kurbanbaev is a self-taught photographer who documents the people and places of his home city.

    Secret Stans
    Insta-stans: the cities of post-Soviet Central Asia captured on Instagram

  • Secret Stans
    'Норман бізге президент пирамида салынуын қалайды деп айтты'

  • Secret Stans
    'Norman said the president wants a pyramid': how starchitects built Astana

  • Secret Stans
    The iron, the melon and the jug: the weirdest Stans buildings – in pictures

    Gallery19

March 2017

  • Astana Ice Fishermen photo story

    New East network
    Cold catch: the ice fishermen of Astana – in pictures

    Outside the Kazakh capital, Astana, the river snowscape is populated by strange figures. Detroit-based photographer Aleksey Kondratyev investigated and discovered they were ice fishermen, who brave -40C temperatures waiting patiently for their catch
    Gallery10

January 2017

  • UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura

    Sponsors of Syria talks in Astana strike deal to protect fragile ceasefire

  • Head of Syrian government delegation Bashar al-Jaafari

    Syria peace talks: rebels appear to rule out ceasefire role for Iran

  • Representatives of the Assad regime and rebel groups assemble for Syria peace talks at Astana’s Rixos President hotel

    Russia in power-broking role as Syria peace talks begin in Astana

  • A fighter from Jaish al-Islam in Syria.

    Syrian rebels agree to attend peace talks in Kazakhstan

November 2016

  • The Byterek tower is viewed from outside the Presidential Palace in Astana, Kazakhstan. The capital has been renamed several times since it was founded in 1830.

    New East network
    Kazakh politicians want to rename capital after president

    Proposal to rename Astana after Nursultan Nazarbayev was buried in declaration passed by both chambers of parliament

May 2016

  • Victory Day Military Parade In Moscow's Red Square<br>MOSCOW, RUSSIA. MAY 9, 2016. Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev at a Victory Day military parade marking the 71st anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Moscow's Red Square. Mikhail Metzel/TASSPHOTOGRAPH BY TASS / Barcroft Images London-T:+44 207 033 1031 E:hello@barcroftmedia.com - New York-T:+1 212 796 2458 E:hello@barcroftusa.com - New Delhi-T:+91 11 4053 2429 E:hello@barcroftindia.com www.barcroftimages.com

    New East network
    Kazakhstan jails online editor for 'spreading false information'

    Astana authorities turn to courts to silence critics and reveal sources of leaks of government documents

September 2015

  • FC Astana

    New East network
    FC Astana – the little club with deep pockets

    First central Asian team to compete in Champions League group stage is owned and financed by Kazakh government. RFE/RL reports

July 2015

  • Astana

    Welcome to Astana, Kazakhstan: one of the strangest capital cities on Earth

    In a country rich with oil money, the flashy buildings of Astana rise up implausibly from the flat Kazakh plains to form a city stuck between a Soviet past and an aspirational present

July 2014

  • Horses gallop over the field in Kazakhstan

    New East network
    Summer holiday in Kazakhstan? Astana eases visa restrictions to attract tourists

    Kazakhstan is allowing citizens of 10 countries – including the UK and US – to enter without visas for 15 days. But experts believe it will still be hard to sell as a holiday destination. EurasiaNet reports
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