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The IJF World Judo Tour has landed back in Kazakhstan for the final Grand Slam event before this year’s World Championships and Olympic Games. With some of the last qualification points on offer, Judo stars from around the world arrived in the city of Astana pursuing victory. At -48kg, Galiya TYNBAYEVA delighted the home crowd, by making it into the final. Tynbayeva twice caught her opponent Giliazova with cleverly timed sacrifice techniques and won her first ever world judo tour gold on home soil in Astana. Kazakhstan Sports & Physical Culture Committee Chairman, Yerbol MYRZABOSSYNOV awarded ...
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Nearly 14,500 homes have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan after water levels spiked in a nearby river, local authorities said on Tuesday. Thousands to evacuate their homes in the Orenburg region, located some 1,200 kilometres southeast of Moscow, when a dam on the Ural River burst last week under the pressure of surging waters. Water levels in the river have since been fluctuating in different parts of the region. Experts have cited multiple possible causes of the floods: large snow reserves in the area melting, deep freezing of the soil which doesn’t allow it to absorb ra...
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Kazakh local authorities have started blowing up artificial dams built by locals in an effort to bring down water levels in flooded areas. While levels are falling in the city of Kulsary in western Kazakhstan, more than 3,000 houses are still flooded, according to local TV station KZ24. To combat the flooding, local authorities started blowing up the dams that agricultural workers installed to collect water for farming and agriculture. In other affected areas, authorities including the military have been building temporary barriers, building dikes and filling sandbags to stop the water from fl...
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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has called the situation in Russia and Kazakhstan "very, very tense" as fast-melting snow and ice swell rivers in Russia's southern Urals and northern Kazakhstan. Both countries have declared a state of emergency after battling the rising rivers for over five days. Kazakhstan has evacuated 96,272 people since the start of the floods. Russia itself has evacuated more than 7,000, mostly from the Orenburg region. The floods in Orenburg began with the collapse of a dam on Saturday. Although President Vladimir Putin is frequently shown on Russian state television ...
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Ten regions of Kazakhstan have declared states of emergency after strong floods hit the entire northwest of the country. The flooding was sparked by a sudden and early period of warm weather that caused huge amounts of snow to melt and overfill numerous rivers across parts of Kazakhstan and Russia. Kazakh president Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev called the floods "the worst in 80 years". More than 72,000 people have been evacuated. The national army has been deployed on rescue and aid missions across the regions. On Sunday, Russia’s government declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg r...
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A Russian Soyuz rocket took off to the International Space Station on Saturday, two days after its launch was aborted last minute. The launch was originally planned for Thursday but was halted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds before the scheduled lift-off. Head of Russia's space agency, Yuri Borisov, said a voltage drop in a power source triggered the abort. The space capsule atop the rocket separated and went into orbit eight minutes after the launch and began a two-day, 34-orbit trip to the space station. If the launch had gone as scheduled on Thursday, the journey would have b...
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Traditionally an under-explored destination for international travellers, Kazakhstan offers adventurous visitors plenty of culture, snow-capped mountains, and show-stopping architecture. Sharing a border with Russia in the north, China in the east and Kyrgyzstan in the south, its cultural heritage is as diverse as its geography. Influences from nomadic traditions, Islamic culture, and Soviet-era history have helped shape its identity. The country's capital, Nur-Sultan (formerly known as Astana), symbolises Kazakhstan's ambitious aspirations and contemporary development. With its futuristic sky...
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