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Roscosmos launches the Iranian Space Agency's Earth observation satellite "Khayyam" from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2022-08-9

Kazakhstan suspends talks with AstraZeneca for purchasing its vaccine amidst fears of blood clots in many countries.
2021-03-17

Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna announces that plans to sell shares in the state-run oil and gas company KazMunayGaz abroad will be delayed from this year to 2022 due to the pandemic.
2020-06-17

Kazakhstan reports its first two confirmed cases of COVID-19; both are Kazakh nationals who recently returned from Germany.
2020-03-13

Kazakhstan police detain dozens of protesters during rallies against proposed land reforms in the former Central Asian Soviet Republic.
2016-05-21

Within hours of a government announcement that Kazakhstan will abandon its currency-band exchange-rate system to implement a free-floating exchange rate, the tenge loses 26% of its value against the US dollar.
2015-08-20

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe reports that the voters in the presidential elections in Kazakhstan had a limited choice due to the lack of opposition and restrictions on free political expression. Kazakhstan's freshly re-elected president has been ruling the country since the time of the Soviet Union.
2015-04-27

The Eurasian Economic Union between Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia comes into effect
2015-01-1

The parliament of Kazakhstan approves a bill giving the President the power to declare a snap presidential election.
2011-02-2

As a result of popular protests in the north and capital of the country President Kurmanbek Bakiyev officially resigns after he leaves Kyrgyzstan for Kazakhstan.
2010-04-16