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  [Berdibek] Saparbayev has been [re-]appointed governor of East Kazakhstan Region, the Kazakhstan Today [news agency] has reported.
  

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  Yeleusin Sagyndykov has been reappointed to the post of governor of Aktyubinsk Region.
  
  
  
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  The specialized auction of ordinary shares of Almaty International Airport JSC (AIA) has been moved to April 20, the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) said on Wednesday. The auction was initially scheduled for April 14.
  

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  Victor Kiyansky, a member of the Majilis (the lower chamber of the Kazakh government), says that the Kazakh authorities should return to operation the seismic monitoring station at the Karachaganak field (in the West Kazakhstan Region). The majilismen voiced his proposal at a Wednesday meeting of the chamber addressing Prime Minister Karim Massimov.
  

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  The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree on further development of the financial market of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Today reports. The President of Kazakhstan decreed closing down of the Agency for Regulation of the Regional Financial Centre of Almaty City (RFCA) and the Agency for Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Market and Financial Organizations. Their functions and power have been transferred to the National Bank of Kazakhstan, the President's press service reports.
  
  
  
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  Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Inc. LLP, Almaty, has awarded Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, a contract for the license and basic engineering of a propane dehydrogenation unit and a polypropylene plant, both to be part of KPI's gas processing complex planned for the western Atyrau region. Each unit will have a design capacity of 500,000 tonnes/year.
  

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Astana, 13 April: [Berdibek] Saparbayev has been [re-]appointed governor of East Kazakhstan Region, the Kazakhstan Today [news agency] has reported.

The Kazakh president's press service reported that under decrees of the head of state, Berdibek Saparbayev was appointed governor of East Kazakhstan Region, and Bakytzhan Sagintayev was appointed governor of Pavlodar Region.

Yesterday, under instructions of the head of state, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov held a meeting with regional activists, and with the approval of the councils of the relevant regions, he introduced the newly-appointed governors of Kostanay Region - Sergey Kulagin, Karaganda Region - Serik Akhmetov, East Kazakhstan Region - Berdibek Saparbayev and Pavlodar Region - Bakytzhan Sagintayev, a source at the presidential press service reported.

As was earlier reported, Imangali Tasmagambetov was appointed mayor of Astana city.

Source: Kazakhstan Today news agency website, Almaty, in Russian 0321 gmt 13 Apr 11

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Aktobe, 13 April: Yeleusin Sagyndykov has been reappointed to the post of governor of Aktyubinsk Region.

The head of the presidential administration, Aslan Musin, introduced his candidature to activists of the region today, an Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency's correspondent reported.

Yeleusin Sagyndykov, who will turn 64 on 1 May, has been heading Aktyubinsk Region since July 2004.

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http://www.interfax.kz/?lang=eng&int_id=10&news_id=4215

Almaty. April 13. Interfax-Kazakhstan – The specialized auction of ordinary shares of Almaty International Airport JSC (AIA) has been moved to April 20, the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) said on Wednesday.

The auction was initially scheduled for April 14. The number of ordinary shares of AIA currently totals 100,000, including 78,414 listed ones. It is planned to auction the whole package of listed ordinary shares. The minimum auction lot is one share. The company has no listed preference shares.

The Almaty Airport, the largest in Kazakhstan, was built in 1935. Almaty International Airport JSC is presently owned on a parity basis by Meridian Capital LLP and SAT Infosystems LLP.

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http://www.interfax.kz/?lang=eng&int_id=10&news_id=4217

Astana. April 13. Interfax-Kazakhstan – Victor Kiyansky, a member of the Majilis (the lower chamber of the Kazakh government), says that the Kazakh authorities should return to operation the seismic monitoring station at the Karachaganak field (in the West Kazakhstan Region).

The majilismen voiced his proposal at a Wednesday meeting of the chamber addressing Prime Minister Karim Massimov.

“I have already raised the issue twice, proposing restoration of the seismic monitoring station in the vicinity of Karachaganak that already felt light tremors in the past,” he said.

According to Mr Kiyansky, the recent events in the other countries have shown that Kazakhstan should create and upgrade seismic stations to monitor natural and technogenic processes in the republic and adjacent states.

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Nazarbayev decrees closing down of two agencies

http://www.kt.kz/index.php?lang=eng&uin=1133435176&chapter=1153536011

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Astana. April 13. Kazakhstan Today - The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree on further development of the financial market of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Today reports.

The President of Kazakhstan decreed closing down of the Agency for Regulation of the Regional Financial Centre of Almaty City (RFCA) and the Agency for Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Market and Financial Organizations. Their functions and power have been transferred to the National Bank of Kazakhstan, the President's press service reports.

The decree came into effect from the day of its signing.

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Kazakhstan Petrochemical awards gas processing contract

http://www.ogj.com/index/article-display/8763058973/articles/oil-gas-journal/processing-2/gas-processing/20100/april-2011/kazakhstan-petrochemical.html

Apr 13, 2011

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Apr. 13 -- Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Inc. LLP, Almaty, has awarded Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, a contract for the license and basic engineering of a propane dehydrogenation unit and a polypropylene plant, both to be part of KPI's gas processing complex planned for the western Atyrau region.

Each unit will have a design capacity of 500,000 tonnes/year.

The propane dehydrogenation unit will use the CATOFIN technology to convert propane to propylene. The polypropylene plant will use the Novolen advanced gas-phase polypropylene technology, which will enable KPI to produce polypropylene products for local and export markets, said the CB&I announcement.

KPI is registered under the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the aim to develop and operate a worldscale gas-to-polymers complex in western Kazakhstan.