Tag: Kazakhstan
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Chetcuti Ganado double inspires Malta U19 women to comeback victory over Kazakhstan
Malta’s women’s Under-19 national team concluded their UEFA European Women’s Under-19 Championship qualifying campaign on a positive note after coming from behind to defeat Kazakhstan 3-1 at the Centenary Stadium on Monday afternoon. Crista Chetcuti Ganado struck twice in the second half after Amy Catania had cancelled out Kazakhstan’s early opener, securing an impressive victory…
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Kazakhstan still doing business with Lukoil and Rosneft despite sanctions
Kazakhstan is still doing plenty of business with Lukoil and Rosneft despite US sanctions against the Russian oil-giants. Kazakh authorities have still not taken action with regard to sanctions and there is no sign that the Russian companies will be pulling out of the country. Lukoil and Rosneft have significant footprints in Kazakhstan. Lukoil’s assets…
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Austria: Russia’s quiet friend in the heart of Europe
Austria has reaped great dividends during Russia’s war on Ukraine by historically having a good relationship with Vladimir Putin. Austria has been allowed an exception by the EU to keep buying gas from Gazprom as of very recently and the biggest Western bank operating in Russia right now is Austrian. Raiffeisen Bank is now having…
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Donald Trump’s alignment with Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is in Astana, Kazakhstan, meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping. Putin received the blue-carpet treatment upon landing in the Kazakh capital, with Kazakhstan’s President Kassym Tokayev personally greeting only Xi Jinping at the airport. In a press conference, Putin heaped praise on Donald Trump’s proposal to end the war in Ukraine calling it…
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Ian Borg meets President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, as OSCE Chairman
Ian Borg, Foreign Affairs Minister and currently, OSCE Chairman, was in Almaty, Kazakhstan yesterday as he met with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Senate leader, and the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, among others, to discuss the OSCE Action Plan for Kazakhstan. Ian Borg also met civil society organizations and youth groups. The OSCE is aiding…
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OSCE Chairman and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ian Borg is on a Central Asian tour
Foreign Affairs Minister Ian Borg is traveling to Central Asia this week as OSCE Chairman. He will first meet with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev before continuing his trip to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Kazakhstan views the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe as a valuable window to the West, given that it is the only…
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Kazakhstan to increase oil sales to Germany and adopt Russian sanctions
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has just announced, while on a trip to Germany, that Kazakhstan is to increase oil sales to Germany and adopt EU and US-imposed trade and economic sanctions on Russia. Germany gets this right by building friendships and striking trade deals with up-and-coming emerging democracies and liberal states. Too much focus…
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Turkey is actively supporting the normalisation of Bashar Al-Assad
After concluding the last Astana Meeting in Kazakhstan, Russia, Iran, and Turkey, have published a joint statement supporting the unity of Syria and normalisation of ties with the Syrian regime. The separate statements by the individual signatories are also similar and Turkey’s statement is published below. Russia has also recently escalated air attacks in Idlib…