Word: kazakhstan
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...huge oil and gas pipe-line monopoly based on an existing pipeline operator, Transneft. In February, Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko submitted a report to Putin suggesting that Transneft acquire Russia's stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a company partly owned by the governments of Kazakhstan and Oman, which operates a 1,500-km oil pipeline from western Kazakhstan to a marine terminal in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Putin endorsed the idea. The transfer of ownership is likely to enrage the CPC's other owners, who view Transneft as a competitor. People familiar...
...hard to project power with a name like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Certainly, the 10-country Eurasian assembly, which gathered in China's financial capital last week, can't claim the brand recognition of the European Union. But the SCO?which consists of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as observer nations India, Pakistan, Iran and Mongolia?is rapidly raising its profile. The regional bloc's massive population (more than 40% of the world's total), wealth of natural resources (more than 20% of the world's oil reserves) and strategic location could give considerable influence...
...estimates that China?s demand will more than double, to 14.2 million barrels of oil per day, and its imports will more than triple, to 10.7 million barrels per day. Even though China is aggressively diversifying its sources of supply, DOE says, by investing in Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Sudan, Iraq, Peru, Azerbaijan, Sudan and Indonesia, Iran is still likely to figure as one of its most dependable suppliers...
Along-smoldering clan war inside the inner circle of Kazakhstan's strongman President, Nursultan Nazar-bayev, has burst into the open. Last month, opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, and two aides were killed by state security ( knb) officers. The killing exposed rivalries among those bidding to succeed Nazarbayev, 65, Kazakhstan's leader since 1989. Though Nazarbayev just won a third seven-year term, Oleg Panfilov, a Moscow-based human-rights campaigner and expert on central Asia, says Sarsenbayev was seen as a challenge to other potential contenders for the presidency. According to many Kazakh and Russian newspapers and websites...
...website, fbsong.com, and estimates that as many as 60,000 people may have heard it. The song is available in both regular and karaoke versions on the website. T-shirts and baseball caps bearing the message “I’ve got a friend in Kazakhstan,” a line from the song, are being sold through another website, and a video is nearly finished and will be uploaded shortly, says Bainton. Details about the content of the video are fuzzy, but rumors have been circulating on the song’s official Facebook group...