Regulation

Over a half of Kazakhstan airports incur losses because of excessive state regulation, Tengrinews.kz reports citing chairman of Kazakhstan Competition Protection Agency Bolatbek Kuandykov who sees the solution of the problem in exclusion of civil aviation from the regulated markets.

Kazakhstan Financial Center is reclaiming the loans issued by the state in 1999-2005 in court, Tengrinews.kz reports citing the press-service of the Financial Center. Back then the educational loans were issued to almost 60 thousand people. Half of them "forgot" to return the money or changed the residency.

Eduard Kreimer, Director General of KSP Steel (Pavlodar company producing steel weldless pipes for oil and gas sector) declared that TengizChevroil was only imitating teeming activity in development of local content in Kazakhstan. This row erupted at the conference during KazNefteGasService-2013 forum held in Astana on February 14, Ak Zhaiyk writes.

Former Kazakhstan Agriculture Minister and the current principal of Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University Akylbek Kurishbayev considers the decision to import cattle a mistake, Interfax-Kazakhstan reports.