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VeloNews (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Alberto Contador won’t lose sleep next season thinking that his paycheck is going to bounce. After a season of turmoil that nearly saw the Astana team fold under financial uncertainty, it appears that Kazakh officials have stepped up and are guaranteeing $22 million in financial back to keep the Astana team afloat for at least a year. The injection of cold, hard cash from Kazakhstan’s state...
Sify (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Kazakhstan's state sovereign fund pledged $22 million in financial backing to the Astana cycling team Friday, ensuring the squad stays alive and Tour de France champion Alberto Contador remains in
Sify (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Kazakhstan's state sovereign fund pledged $22 million in financial backing to the Astana cycling team Friday, ensuring the squad stays alive and Tour de France champion Alberto Contador remains in
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Kazakhstan's state sovereign fund has pledged $22 million in financial backing to the Astana cycling team, keeping the outfit alive and Tour de France champion Alberto Contador in its ranks.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Kazakhstan's state sovereign fund has pledged $22 million in financial backing to the Astana cycling team, keeping the outfit alive and Tour de France champion Alberto Contador in its ranks.
France24 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has signed a preliminary contract to stay with Astana in 2010 if the Kazakhstan team retains its Pro Tour licence. The Spaniard had threatened to quit the team several times in 2009.
AirTransportNews.aero (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Embraer is pleased to welcome the expanding Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana to its E-Jets family of customers. The airline will operate two EMBRAER 190 jets out of Almaty, Kazakhstan,...
The Oil and The Glory (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Oil and gas were go-go drivers of the former Soviet economy for years -- until the U.S. subprime catastrophe cut off the flow of easy Western loans. Businesspeople in Russia, Kazakhstan and elsewhere socked away their personal profits and skimmings, while relying on Western loans often coursed through local banks to finance easy loans for investment. To call the resulting real estate bubble huge would...
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
BY JOSHUA KUCERA The government of Kazakhstan has hired a Washington lobbying firm to try to change regulations that require countries to make progress on human rights in order to receive US aid. Kazakhstani officials have indicated that they would prefer to not get the money at all, rather than be subjected to the "insulting" standards.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Astana/Moscow - At least 16 people died Monday in a fire in a warehouse for synthetic building materials in the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, the Interfax Kazakhstan news agency reported. The fire rapidly spread throughout the 8,000-square-me...
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I am grateful to Simon Mann and Mark Thatcher for one thing. They have made it marginally easier to remember the capitals of smaller African countries, a subset of general knowledge of which I am fond but in which I am deficient. There is a better chance now that Malabo will stick in my mind, not least because I know that it is on the island of Bioko, formerly Fernando Po, which is part of the territory...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Alexander Visotzky writes about the opening of a monument in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, where the authorities uncovered a 15-foot high bronze statue of incumbent president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Webstan - Internet in Central Asia (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
In Google Trends, tool which compares search volume for given queries, you can see that Facebook has now caught Odnoklassniki by Google search queries numbers in Kazakhstan. As you can see on the graph Odnoklassniki queries emerged in the country in November 2007 since then it boomed until middle 2008. Facebook raised in October 2008 and started to catch up with Russian social network in September...
Tennis Online TV (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Watch ATP Challenger Astana match live video on your pc.Everybody watch ATP Challenger Live exciting match. ATP Challenger Astana Live Video Match summery Date : 06-11-2009 Time : 13:00 until 20:00 GMT+6 Competition:ATP Challenger Astana Live / Repeat: Live Day 5 - Quarter Finals :: Challenger Tour 2009 - Astana Open 2009 Astana, Kazakhstan ATP Challenger Astana Live
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The joys of lying about: Madame Arcati's idea of hedonism One mark of a hedonist is an aversion to travel. Getting on a plane these days is not travelling. That's just sitting about. You get to the hotel - that's sitting about, too. Poolside, that's lying about. You want to see that quaint RC church with the transexual painting (really) in Ronda because you happen to be in Marbella? You get in a car...
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